MIT Technology Review Narrated

In Machines We Trust: Hired by an algorithm

If you’ve applied for a job lately, it’s all but guaranteed that your application was reviewed by software—in most cases, before a human ever laid eyes on it. In this episode, the first in a four-part...

23 Juni 202133min

In Machines We Trust: When AI becomes childsplay

Despite their popularity with kids, tablets and other connected devices are built on top of systems that weren’t designed for them to easily understand or navigate. Adapting algorithms to interact wit...

9 Juni 202122min

In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces (Encore)

Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your picture is probably in there (our host Jennifer Strong’s was). In the second of a four-part series o...

26 Maj 202121min

In Machines We Trust: Can AI fix your credit?

Credit scores have been used for decades to assess consumer creditworthiness, but their scope is far greater now that they are powered by algorithms: not only do they consider vastly more data, in bot...

12 Maj 202119min

In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice

Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking machines we’ve been musing about for decades. In th...

28 Apr 202128min

In Machines We Trust: What’s AI doing in your wallet?

Tech giants are moving into our wallets—bringing AI and big questions with them. Our entire financial system is built on trust. We can exchange otherwise worthless paper bills for fresh groceries, or ...

14 Apr 202119min

In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder

Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think. Ideas about what constitutes “beauty” are complex, subjective, and b...

31 Mars 202122min