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In Machines We Trust: AI in the Driver’s Seat
Season 1 Episode 6
Automated driving is advancing all the time, but there’s still a critical missing ingredient: trust. Host Jennifer Strong meets engineers building a new language of communication between automated ve…
Published on 5 years ago
In Machines We Trust: Down and Dirty with Covid Genes
Season 1 Episode 5
What weird bugs did you pick up last time you rode a subway train? A global network of scientists mapping the DNA of urban microbes and using AI to look for patterns pivots to tracking covid-19. Join…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
In Machines We Trust: When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong
Season 1 Episode 1
What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong? In the first of a four-part series on face recognition, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the arrest of a man who was falsely…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces
Season 1 Episode 2
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 …
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
In Machines We Trust: What Happens in Vegas… Is Captured on Camera
Season 1 Episode 3
The use of facial recognition by police has come under a lot of scrutiny. In part-three of our series, host Jennifer Strong takes you to Sin City, which actually has one of America’s most buttoned-up…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
In Machines We Trust: Who Owns Your Face?
Season 1 Episode 4
Police have a history of using face recognition to arrest protestors—something not lost on activists since the death of George Floyd. In the last of a four-part series on facial recognition, host Jen…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Introducing In Machines We Trust
Season 1
Welcome to a podcast about the automation of everything. Host Jennifer Strong and MIT Technology Review’s editors explore what it means to entrust AI with our most sensitive decisions.
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago