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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Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
26 min
52
Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s mo...
34 min
53
How gamification took over the world
16 min
54
Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead rel...
27 min
55
Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “su...
35 min
56
What is AI?
79 min
57
The cost of building the perfect wave
27 min
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How generative AI could reinvent what it means ...
28 min
59
The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlim...
21 min
60
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. ...
28 min
61
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global cap...
25 min
62
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
63
It’s time to retire the term “user”
The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.
13 min
64
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
65
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
66
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
67
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
68
In Machines We Trust: That's a wrap!
Farewell to In Machines We Trust
26 min
69
In Machines We Trust: When AI hears a problem
An deep dive into vocal biomarkers from MIT Technology Review
32 min
70
In Machines We Trust: Harvesting the future wit...
Part two of a miniseries
20 min
71
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
72
In Machines We Trust: The Chip War (Live)
A conversation taped before a live audience.
20 min
73
In Machines We Trust: I Was There When... AI re...
An oral history project from the In Machines We Trust podcast
13 min
74
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