Machines Like Us

By The Globe and Mail

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Machines Like Us is a technology show about people. We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter. Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future. He’ll speak with entrepreneurs building world-changing technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure they’re safe, and journalists and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.

Episode Date
Could an Alternative AI Save Us From a Bubble?
Dec 02, 2025
Can AI Lead Us to the Good Life?
Nov 18, 2025
How to Survive the “Broligarchy”
Nov 04, 2025
AI Music is Everywhere. Is it Legal?
Oct 21, 2025
Geoffrey Hinton vs. The End of the World
Oct 07, 2025
AI is Upending Higher Education. Is That a Bad Thing?
Sep 23, 2025
Jim Balsillie: ‘Canada’s Problem Isn’t Trump. Canada’s Problem Is Canada’
Apr 22, 2025
The Changing Face of Election Interference
Apr 08, 2025
How Do You Report the News in a Post-Truth World?
Mar 25, 2025
A Chinese Company Upended OpenAI. We May Be Looking at the Story All Wrong.
Mar 11, 2025
Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back.
Feb 25, 2025
New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think
Feb 11, 2025
A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI
Jan 28, 2025
Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them
Jan 20, 2025
This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death
Jan 14, 2025
Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak
Dec 31, 2024
AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?
Dec 17, 2024
How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination
Dec 03, 2024
Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI
Nov 19, 2024
Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online
Nov 05, 2024
Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election
Oct 22, 2024
Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future
Oct 08, 2024
Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.
Sep 24, 2024
There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It.
Sep 10, 2024
Gaza is a Window into the Future of War
Aug 27, 2024
Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech
Aug 13, 2024
How to Hack Democracy
Jul 30, 2024
How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)
Jul 16, 2024
Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI
Jul 02, 2024
The Real World Cost of AI
Jun 18, 2024
Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?
Jun 04, 2024
The Battle for Your Brain
May 21, 2024
Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness?
May 07, 2024
Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse.
May 07, 2024
Introducing Machines Like Us
Apr 29, 2024