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Machines Like Us — 56 episodes

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Taylor Owen on The Decibel: The new AI moment we're in

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Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed

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Why does AI sound so much like religion?

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Demis Hassabis wanted to solve intelligence. Then came ChatGPT.

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Can You Really Teach a Robot Empathy? This Roboticist Says Yes.

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Age Gates & AI: Minister Marc Miller on The Safe Social Media Act

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Canada’s AI minister to Big Tech: “We Won’t be a Digital Colony’

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We Can Now Bet on Almost Anything. Should We?

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Social Media Bans Are Wildly Popular. They Might Also Be a Mistake.

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Animals are Talking to Each Other. Can AI Help Us Understand Them?

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Does 21st Century Politics Still Need Politicians?

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Michael Pollan Says AI Isn’t Conscious – But Plants Might Be

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Why Did We Stop Talking About The AI Apocalypse?

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In the Wake of Tumbler Ridge, Can We Trade Privacy for Safety?

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When Did Common Sense AI Policy Become Radical?

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Bonus: Inside the New Social Media Platform for AI Agents

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The Future According to Gen Z

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Is China Winning the Technological Arms Race?

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Four Predictions on How AI Will Transform Your World This Year

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The Man Behind the World’s Most Coveted Microchip

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Wikipedia Won Our Trust. Can We Use That Model Everywhere?

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Could an Alternative AI Save Us From a Bubble?

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Can AI Lead Us to the Good Life?

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How to Survive the “Broligarchy”

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AI Music is Everywhere. Is it Legal?

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Geoffrey Hinton vs. The End of the World

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AI is Upending Higher Education. Is That a Bad Thing?

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Jim Balsillie: ‘Canada’s Problem Isn’t Trump. Canada’s Problem Is Canada’

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The Changing Face of Election Interference

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How Do You Report the News in a Post-Truth World?

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A Chinese Company Upended OpenAI. We May Be Looking at the Story All Wrong.

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Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back.

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New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think

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A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI

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Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them

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This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death

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Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak

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AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?

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How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination

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Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI

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Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online

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Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election

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Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future

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Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.

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There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It.

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Gaza is a Window into the Future of War

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Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech

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How to Hack Democracy

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How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)

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Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI

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The Real World Cost of AI

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Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?

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The Battle for Your Brain

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Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness?

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Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse.

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Introducing Machines Like Us