MIT Technology Review Narrated

Welcome to MIT Technology Review Narrated, the home for the very best of our journalism in audio. Each week we will share one of our most ambitious stories, from print and online, narrated for us by real voice actors. Expect big themes, thought-provoking topics, and sharp analysis, all backed by our trusted reporting.

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In Machines We Trust: When an algorithm gets it...
A look back at where we started.
19 min
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Welcome to Curious Coincidence
A new investigative podcast from MIT Technology Review
3 min
53
Welcome to The Extortion Economy
Part 1: The Problem
22 min
54
In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder (E...
Machines are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the posts we see, and the way we think.
21 min
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In Machines We Trust: What’s behind a smile (En...
An introduction to emotion AI.
23 min
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In Machines We Trust: Attention shoppers, you’r...
Revisiting our series on unexpected uses of facial recognition.
26 min
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In Machines We Trust: How AI is giving a woman ...
Voice technology is one of the biggest trends in the healthcare space. We look at how it might help care providers and patients, from a woman who is losing her speech, to documenting healthcare records for doctors.
22 min
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In Machines We Trust: What is AI? We made this ...
A radio play explainer.
6 min
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Faceb...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
13 min
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In Machines We Trust: How pricing algorithms le...
Part-three of a series on automation and our wallets.
24 min
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Face ...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
12 min
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In Machines We Trust: How games teach AI to lea...
Like humans, AI learns new skills through play. But unlike the natural world, AI can process years of training in a single day.
26 min
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In Machines We Trust: Beating the AI hiring mac...
Part-four of an investigation into automated hiring practices.
30 min
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In Machines We Trust: Playing the job market
Part-three of an investigation into automated hiring practices.
36 min
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In Machines We Trust: Want a job? The AI will s...
Part-two of an investigation into automated hiring practices.
29 min
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In Machines We Trust: Hired by an algorithm
Part-one of an investigation into automated hiring practices.
32 min
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In Machines We Trust: When AI becomes childsplay
We examine the relationship AI has with kids.
21 min
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In Machines We Trust: Land of a Billion Faces (...
Part-two of a series on police and facial recognition.
20 min
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In Machines We Trust: Can AI fix your credit?
Part-two of a series on automation and our wallets.
18 min
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In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
How machines learn to speak—and what it means for humans on the other end of the conversation.
27 min
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In Machines We Trust: What’s AI doing in your w...
Part-one of a series on automation and our wallets.
18 min
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In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder
"Let's just say I've never seen a culturally sensitive beauty AI."
22 min
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In Machines We Trust: We're back with a new sea...
Trailer: Season Two
3 min
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In Machines We Trust: Attention Shoppers: You’r...
Part-four of a series on unexpected uses of facial recognition.
28 min
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In Machines We Trust: Timnit Gebru Tells Her Story
Ousted AI researcher reflects on her time at Google
21 min