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.
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Animals are Talking to Each Other. Can AI Help Us Understand Them?
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May 05, 2026 |
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Does 21st Century Politics Still Need Politicians?
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Michael Pollan Says AI Isn’t Conscious – But Plants Might Be
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Why Did We Stop Talking About The AI Apocalypse?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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In the Wake of Tumbler Ridge, Can We Trade Privacy for Safety?
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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When Did Common Sense AI Policy Become Radical?
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Bonus: Inside the New Social Media Platform for AI Agents
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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The Future According to Gen Z
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Is China Winning the Technological Arms Race?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Four Predictions on How AI Will Transform Your World This Year
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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The Man Behind the World’s Most Coveted Microchip
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Wikipedia Won Our Trust. Can We Use That Model Everywhere?
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Could an Alternative AI Save Us From a Bubble?
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Can AI Lead Us to the Good Life?
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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How to Survive the “Broligarchy”
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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AI Music is Everywhere. Is it Legal?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Geoffrey Hinton vs. The End of the World
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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AI is Upending Higher Education. Is That a Bad Thing?
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Jim Balsillie: ‘Canada’s Problem Isn’t Trump. Canada’s Problem Is Canada’
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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The Changing Face of Election Interference
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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How Do You Report the News in a Post-Truth World?
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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A Chinese Company Upended OpenAI. We May Be Looking at the Story All Wrong.
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Big Tech Hijacked Our Attention. Chris Hayes Wants To Win It Back.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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New Spyware Has Made Your Phone Less Secure Than You Might Think
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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A Computer Scientist Answers Your Questions About AI
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Questions About AI? We Want to Hear Them
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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This Mother Says a Chatbot Led to Her Son’s Death
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Bonus ‘The Decibel’: How an algorithm missed a deadly listeria outbreak
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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AI Has Mastered Chess, Poker and Go. So Why Do We Keep Playing?
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It.
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Gaza is a Window into the Future of War
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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How to Hack Democracy
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The Real World Cost of AI
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Battle for Your Brain
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May 21, 2024 |
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Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness?
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May 07, 2024 |
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Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse.
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May 07, 2024 |
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Introducing Machines Like Us
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Apr 29, 2024 |