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The award-winning podcast In Machines We Trust thoughtfully examines the far-reaching impact of artificial intelligence on our daily lives. Hosted by Jennifer Strong, the series explores the rise of AI through the voices of people reckoning with the power of the technology, and by taking listeners up close with the inventors and founders whose ambitions are fueling the development of new forms of AI, with far-reaching implications we’re only just beginning to understand.

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Season 4

Farming a war zone

EmTech MIT: What’s next for space research?

Decoding a future of fire with AI

How AI watches wildfires

I Was There When: AI Replicated Darth Vader

I Was There When: AI mastered chess

How AI is helping birth digital humans that look and sound just like us

How one vineyard is using AI to improve its winemaking

How retail is using AI to prevent fraud

I Was There When: AI helped create a vaccine

EmTech Digital: How to craft effective AI policy

Can AI keep guns out of schools?

I Was There When: AI became the DJ

Who watches AI watching students?

Season 3

How AI is giving a woman back her voice

What is AI? We made this radio play to help.

I Was There When: Facebook put profits over safety

How pricing algorithms learn to collude

The story of AI, as told by the people who invented it

How games teach AI to learn for itself

Season 2

Beating the AI hiring machines

Playing the job market

Want a job? The AI will see you now

Hired by an algorithm

When AI becomes child’s play

Can AI fix your credit?

AI finds its voice

What’s AI doing in your wallet?

In the AI of the Beholder

Season 1

Attention, shoppers–you’re being tracked

When your face is your ticket

Facial recognition is quietly being used to control access to housing and social services

EmTech Stage: Twitter’s CTO on misinformation

EmTech Stage: Facebook’s CTO on misinformation

What is AI? We made this to help.

Citizens are turning face recognition on unidentified police

AI Reads Human Emotions. Should it?

How close is AI to decoding our emotions?

Why people might never use autonomous cars

The scientists who swab subways for coronavirus

What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong

What happens in Vegas… is captured on camera

Land of a billion faces

Who owns your face?

Behind the Podcast

Jennifer Strong

Host

Anthony Green

Producer

Emma Cillekens

Producer