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Machines Like Us

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About the show

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.

Latest episodes

  • Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed

    September 15, 2026 · 45 min

    In early August, OpenAI hosted dozens of lifestyle creators at an upstate New York resort for a weekend they called Summer Club. There was beekeeping. There were farm-to-table dinners. And in between, there were sessions on how to use…

  • Why does AI sound so much like religion?

    September 1, 2026 · 41 min

    For years, the debate about AI was mostly about what it could do, whether it could write, make convincing art, or beat us at our own games. The questions now are older and harder. What makes us human? How do we find meaning? If a machine…

  • Demis Hassabis wanted to solve intelligence. Then came ChatGPT.

    August 18, 2026 · 51 min

    When Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010, his mission was simple: solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else. What began as a scientific quest would eventually become a fierce global AI race.  Today, DeepMind is owned…

  • Can You Really Teach a Robot Empathy? This Roboticist Says Yes.

    August 4, 2026 · 32 min

    You've probably seen one by now: a human-sized robot doing very human feats – landing a perfect backflip, racing through the streets of Beijing, or dancing in a crowd at a Knicks game. But behind these viral moments, there is serious…

  • Age Gates & AI: Minister Marc Miller on The Safe Social Media Act

    July 21, 2026 · 34 min

    When Marc Miller became Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, he inherited Ottawa’s oldest, unfinished file in tech policy: regulating social media. He took office at a global turning point. Australia had just banned social media for…

  • Canada’s AI minister to Big Tech: “We Won’t be a Digital Colony’

    July 7, 2026 · 29 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 strategy offers…

  • We Can Now Bet on Almost Anything. Should We?

    June 23, 2026 · 52 min

    Human beings have always loved to gamble. Archeological records suggest we’ve been doing it for the last 12,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age. But for as long as we’ve been playing games of chance, we’ve worried about what they…

  • Social Media Bans Are Wildly Popular. They Might Also Be a Mistake.

    June 9, 2026 · 58 min

    Towards 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 Indonesia and Austria…