Oct 14, 202627 min
This one's from The Decibel, The Globe and Mail's daily news podcast. Taylor was the guest, talking about the push to regulate AI and whether governments can keep up. We're between seasons, so we're running it here too...
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Machines Like Us
Hosted by The Globe and Mail · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
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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What is Machines Like Us about?
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.
Who hosts Machines Like Us?
Machines Like Us is hosted by The Globe and Mail. The show has published 56 episodes to date.
What has Machines Like Us covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Taylor Owen on The Decibel: The new AI moment we're in" (14 October 2026, 27 minutes), "Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed" (15 September 2026, 45 minutes), and "Why does AI sound so much like religion?" (1 September 2026, 41 minutes).
How often does Machines Like Us publish?
Machines Like Us publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 56 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Machines Like Us?
Booking probability for Machines Like Us is 48%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Machines Like Us requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Machines Like Us's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recent episodes
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Why does AI sound so much like religion?
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Jul 7, 202629 min“AI for All.” That’s what Canada’s federal government is calling its national AI strategy. It makes the case for building AI with confidence: a homegrown supercomputer by 2031, 60 per cent adoption by 2034. But the new...
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Jun 9, 202658 minTowards the end of last year, Australia did something no other country had ever tried: it banned social media for kids under 16. And a bunch of others are following with similar laws, first Denmark, then France, then...
May 5, 202642 minThe people running technology companies love to make wild predictions about the future. They’ve told us that artificial intelligence will cure cancer, eliminate drudgery and solve climate change. But those utopian...
Apr 21, 202644 minWhen Prime Minister Mark Carney took the floor at the recent Liberal convention, he described a future where AI benefits all Canadians – not just a lucky few. It’s an optimistic vision. But according to political...
Apr 7, 202640 minFour years ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine went public with a strange claim: he thought the large language model he’d been working on had become sentient. At the time, virtually no one took him seriously...
Mar 24, 202647 minJust a few years ago, it seemed like all anyone in AI wanted to talk about was existential risk – this idea that an artificial super intelligence could eventually break containment and destroy humanity. More than 30,000...
Mar 10, 202646 minOn Feb. 10, 2026, an 18-year-old opened fire at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., killing eight people before turning a gun on herself. In the weeks that followed, OpenAI admitted that the perpetrator had been...
Feb 24, 202638 minA couple of months ago, I joined the Canadian government’s AI strategy task force. Out of thirty members, I was one of only four focused on safety. Everyone else was there to talk growth. It reflects a pattern playing...
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Scrolling through Moltbook , the new social-media platform for AI agents, is a bit like walking into a fever dream. There are threads where bots debate consciousness, deal digital drugs, and plot our destruction. One...
Episode #41
The Future According to Gen Z
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Jan 27, 202656 minIf we don’t build it, China will. That’s the rallying cry of the tech companies and governments racing to develop artificial intelligence as fast as humanly possible. The argument is that whoever reaches AGI first won’t...
Jan 13, 20261 hourNine months ago, Elon Musk said 2025 would be the year chatbots became smarter than humans. Sam Altman thought it would be the year fully autonomous AIs entered the work force. And Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic...
Dec 30, 202553 minJensen Huang is something of an enigma. The NVIDIA CEO doesn’t have social media and, until recently, rarely gave interviews. Yet he may be the most important person in AI. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become a...
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Greg Epstein
Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT, Harvard
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Evan Solomon
Kanadischer Minister für künstliche Intelligenz und digitale Innovation, Canada’s first Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation
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Aza Raskin
co-founder and president, Center for Humane Technology
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Alondra Nelson
president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Institute for Advanced Study
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