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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Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. ...
28 min
52
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global cap...
25 min
53
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of...
Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.
28 min
54
It’s time to retire the term “user”
The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.
13 min
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The search for extraterrestrial life is targeti...
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will travel to one of Jupiter's largest moons to look for evidence of conditions that could support life.
26 min
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Large language models can do jaw-dropping thing...
Why figuring out how and why LLMs do what they do matters for the future.
16 min
57
How ASML took over the chipmaking chessboard
The CTO of the Dutch company explains how it become one of the most important businesses in the world.
18 min
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Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness c...
Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious.
30 min
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In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
Farewell to In Machines We Trust
26 min
60
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
An deep dive into vocal biomarkers from MIT Technology Review
32 min
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In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future wit...
Part two of a miniseries
20 min
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In Machines We Trust: A conversation with Geoff...
A live taping from EmTech Digital, our signature AI event, in the MIT Media Lab
39 min
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In Machines We Trust: The Chip War (Live)
A conversation taped before a live audience.
20 min
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI re...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
13 min
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In Machines We Trust: When AI watches the streets
A look at how smart city tech is being used in ways we didn't predict.
26 min
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In Machines We Trust: Concerning AI ethics
The best definitions of AI are vague, largely lack consensus and represent a huge challenge for lawmakers and legal scholars looking to regulate it.
20 min
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In Machines We Trust: Generating creativity
How should generative AI models be trained and deployed in order to be both useful and fair to artists?
18 min
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In Machines We Trust: AI births digital humans ...
Digital twins of humans capture the physical look and expressions of real humans.
18 min
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In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... Robot...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
15 min
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In Machines We Trust: The AI of the beholder
A look back at our reporting on beauty filters.
21 min
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In Machines We Trust: In the cockpit with AI
The second of a two-part series
26 min
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In Machines We Trust: Who watches AI watching s...
An encore edition from season four
21 min
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In Machines We Trust: AI enters the dogfight
Artificial intelligence agents successfully pilot fighter jet
19 min
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In Machines We Trust: Aging with robots
How artificial intelligence is being used to support the elderly.
22 min
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In Machines We Trust: The AI in the newsroom
We explore how journalists are using ChatGPT and other generative AI.
18 min