All Episodes
MIT Technology Review Narrated — 193 episodes
What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub are moving forward
The inevitable weakness of metrics
South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers
PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel
Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check
The search for dark matter has been blown wide open
Inside the hunt for the most dangerous asteroid ever
Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside
A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare
How IVF is being revolutionized
This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain
NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?
Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over.
No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable
This company is developing gene therapies for muscle growth, erectile dysfunction, and “radical longevity”
The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home
Can quantum computers now solve health care problems? We’ll soon find out.
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade
America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.
The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis
Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.
Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint
China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries.
This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
What’s next for AI in 2026
How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world
How two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” invasion
Is this the electric grid of the future?
The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures
How to fix the internet
Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert)
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
Supershoes are reshaping distance running
How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink
Inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos
How to measure the returns on R&D spending
How do AI models generate videos?
What’s next for AI and math
How AI can help supercharge creativity
Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI’s “mind”
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
How to run an LLM on your laptop
Can nuclear power really fuel the rise of AI?
GPT-5 is here. Now what?
AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
This rare earth metal shows us the future of our planet’s resources
The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means. That’s a problem.
How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars?
Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
The surprising barrier that keeps us from building the housing we need
How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth
Google, Amazon and the problem with Big Tech’s climate claims
Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.
What’s next for our privacy?
How Trump’s tariffs could drive up the cost of batteries, EVs, and more
The second wave of AI coding is here
Quantum computing is taking on its biggest challenge: noise
Will we ever trust robots?
Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.
The quest to figure out farming on Mars
How tracking animal movement may save the planet
Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
AI search could break the web
The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity
The weeds are winning
Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch
The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age
Is this the end of animal testing?
Meet the divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go
Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality
How covid conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism
How to fine-tune AI for prosperity
Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense
ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
Beyond gene-edited babies: the possible paths for tinkering with human evolution
The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit
The world’s on the verge of a carbon storage boom
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto
How gamification took over the world
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?
Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”
What is AI?
The cost of building the perfect wave
How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
It’s time to retire the term “user”
The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
How ASML took over the chipmaking chessboard
Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum
In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future with AI and satellites (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: A conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Live)
In Machines We Trust: The Chip War (Live)
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI reached a crossroads
In Machines We Trust: When AI watches the streets
In Machines We Trust: Concerning AI ethics
In Machines We Trust: Generating creativity
In Machines We Trust: AI births digital humans (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Robots Learned to Run
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder
In Machines We Trust: In the cockpit with AI
In Machines We Trust: Who watches AI watching students?
In Machines We Trust: AI enters the dogfight
In Machines We Trust: Aging with robots
In Machines We Trust: The AI in the newsroom
In Machines We Trust: Automating Agriculture (Live)
In Machines We Trust: House training a robot
In Machines We Trust: How to test a satellite (Audio Postcard)
In Machines We Trust: Exploring AI's evolution (Live)
In Machines We Trust: How games teach AI to learn for itself (Update)
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future with AI and satellites
In Machines We Trust: The future of farming lies in space
In Machines We Trust: Optimizing for convenience
In Machines We Trust: When Your Face is Your Ticket (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms learn to collude (Update)
In Machines We Trust: Want a job? The AI will see you now. (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: Farming a war zone
In Machines We Trust: What’s next for space research? (Live)
In Machines We Trust: Decoding a future of fire
In Machines We Trust: How AI watches wildfires
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI replicated Darth Vader
In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI mastered chess
In Machines We Trust: Seeing double: AI births digital humans
In Machines We Trust: Real-Time Farming (Audio Postcard)
In Machines We Trust: How retail is using AI to prevent fraud
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI helped create a vaccine
In Machines We Trust: How to craft effective AI policy (Live)
In Machines We Trust: Can AI keep guns out of schools?
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI became the DJ
In Machines We Trust: Who watches AI watching students?
In Machines We Trust: When an algorithm gets it wrong (Encore)
Welcome to Curious Coincidence
Welcome to The Extortion Economy
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: What’s behind a smile (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: Attention shoppers, you’re being tracked (Update)
In Machines We Trust: How AI is giving a woman back her voice
In Machines We Trust: What is AI? We made this to help.
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Facebook put profit over safety
In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms learn to collude
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Face recognition was commercialized
In Machines We Trust: How games teach AI to learn for itself
In Machines We Trust: Beating the AI hiring machines
In Machines We Trust: Playing the job market
In Machines We Trust: Want a job? The AI will see you now.
In Machines We Trust: Hired by an algorithm
In Machines We Trust: When AI becomes childsplay
In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: Can AI fix your credit?
In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
In Machines We Trust: What’s AI doing in your wallet?
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder
In Machines We Trust: We're back with a new season!
In Machines We Trust: Attention Shoppers: You’re Being Tracked
In Machines We Trust: Timnit Gebru Tells Her Story
In Machines We Trust: Your Face Could Be Your Ticket
In Machines We Trust: No Face... No Service
In Machines We Trust: When the Camera Turns on Police
In Machines We Trust: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera (Encore)
In Machines We Trust: Twitter's CTO on Misinformation (Live)
In Machines We Trust: Facebook's CTO on Misinformation (Live)
In Machines We Trust: What is AI? We Made This to Help.
In Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?
In Machines We Trust: What’s Behind a Smile
In Machines We Trust: AI in the Driver’s Seat
In Machines We Trust: Down and Dirty with Covid Genes
In Machines We Trust: When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong
In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces
In Machines We Trust: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera
In Machines We Trust: Who Owns Your Face?
Coming August 12th