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MIT Technology Review Narrated

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In this episode, we meet Sophie Zhang—a former data scientist at Facebook. Before she was fired, she

Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according

I Was There When is an oral history project that's part of the In Machines We Trust podcast. It feat

From chess to Jeopardy to e-sports, AI is increasingly beating humans at their own games. But that w

When it comes to hiring, it’s increasingly becoming an AI’s world, we’re just working in it. In this

Increasingly, job seekers need to pass a series of ‘tests’ in the form of artificial intelligence ga

In the past, hiring decisions were made by people. Today, some key decisions that lead to whether so

If you’ve applied for a job lately, it’s all but guaranteed that your application was reviewed by so

Despite their popularity with kids, tablets and other connected devices are built on top of systems

Clearview AI has built one of the most comprehensive databases of people’s faces in the world. Your

Credit scores have been used for decades to assess consumer creditworthiness, but their scope is far

Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are sti

Tech giants are moving into our wallets—bringing AI and big questions with them.Our entire financial

Computers are ranking the way people look—and the results are influencing the things we do, the post

Host Jennifer Strong and MIT Technology Review’s editors explore what it means to entrust AI with ou

Cameras in stores aren’t anything new—but these days there are AI brains behind the electric eyes. I

Two weeks after her forced exit, the AI ethics researcher reflects on her time at Google, how to inc

Face mapping and other tracking systems are changing the sports experience in the stands and on the

Facial recognition technology is being deployed in housing projects, homeless shelters, schools, eve

Moves have been made to restrict the use of facial recognition across the globe. In part one of this