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Depending who you ask, big tech is either going to save humanity or destroy us. Taylor Owen thinks it’s a little more complicated than that. Join him in conversation with leading thinkers as...
When Prime Minister Mark Carney took the floor at the recent Liberal convention, he described a future where AI benefits all Canadians – not...
Four years ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine went public with a strange claim: he thought the large language model he’d been workin...
Just a few years ago, it seemed like all anyone in AI wanted to talk about was existential risk – this idea that an artificial super intelli...
On Feb. 10, 2026, an 18-year-old opened fire at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., killing eight people before turning a gun on herself....
A couple of months ago, I joined the Canadian government’s AI strategy task force. Out of thirty members, I was one of only four focused on...
Scrolling through Moltbook , the new social-media platform for AI agents, is a bit like walking into a fever dream. There are threads where...
No one has adopted artificial intelligence more enthusiastically than Gen Z. And not just to help with their homework. Half of American teen...
If we don’t build it, China will. That’s the rallying cry of the tech companies and governments racing to develop artificial intelligence as...
Nine months ago, Elon Musk said 2025 would be the year chatbots became smarter than humans. Sam Altman thought it would be the year fully au...
Jensen Huang is something of an enigma. The NVIDIA CEO doesn’t have social media and, until recently, rarely gave interviews. Yet he may be...
It was an idea that defied logic: an online encyclopedia that anyone could edit. You didn’t need to have a PhD or even use your real name –...
Over the last couple of years, massive AI investment has largely kept the stock market afloat. Case in point: the so-called Magnificent 7 –...
In Rutger Bregman’s first book, Utopia for Realists , the historian describes a rosy vision of the future – one with 15-hour work weeks, uni...
At Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, the returning president made a striking break from tradition. The seats closest to the pre...
AI art is everywhere now. According to the music streaming platform Deezer, 18 per cent of the songs being uploaded to the site are AI-gener...
The story of how Geoffrey Hinton became “the godfather of AI” has reached mythic status in the tech world. While he was at the University of...
Just two months after ChatGPT was launched in 2022, a survey found that 90 per cent of college students were already using it. I’d be shocke...
In the chaotic early months of his second term, Donald Trump has attacked the Canadian economy and mused about turning Canada into the “51st...
We’re a few weeks into a federal election that is currently too close to call. And while most Canadians are wondering who our next Prime Min...
If you’re having a conversation about the state of journalism, it’s bound to get a little depressing. Since 2008, more than 250 local news o...
When the American company OpenAI released ChatGPT, it was the first time that a lot of people had ever interacted with Generative AI. ChatGP...
Do I have your attention right now? I’m guessing probably not. Or, at least, not all of it. In all likelihood, you’re listening to this on y...
It’s become pretty easy to spot phishing scams: UPS orders you never made, banking alerts from companies you don’t bank with, phone calls fr...
We’ve spent a lot of time on this show talking about AI : how it’s changing war, how your doctor might be using it, and whether or not chatb...
We spend a lot of time talking about AI on this show: how we should govern it, the ideologies of the people making it, and the ways it's res...
In February, 2024, Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son Sewell took his own life. As she tried to make sense of what happened, Megan discovered th...
In July, there was a recall on two brands of plant-based milks, Silk and Great Value, after a listeria outbreak that led to at least 20 illn...
The board game Go has more possible board configurations than there are atoms in the universe. Because of that seemingly infinite complexity...
The past few months have seen a series of bold proclamations from the most powerful people in tech. In September, Mark Zuckerberg announced...
Margrethe Vestager has spent the past decade standing up to Silicon Valley. As the EU’s Competition Commissioner, she’s waged landmark legal...
We’re off this week, so we’re bringing you an episode from our Globe and Mail sister show Lately. That creeping feeling that everything onli...
The tech lobby has quietly turned Silicon Valley into the most powerful political operation in America. Pro crypto donors are now responsibl...
What kind of future are we building for ourselves? In some ways, that’s the central question of this show. It’s also a central question of s...
A couple of weeks ago, I was at this splashy AI conference in Montreal called All In. It was – how should I say this – a bit over the top. T...
In 2015, 195 countries gathered in Paris to discuss how to address the climate crisis. Although there was plenty they couldn’t agree on, the...
For nearly a year now, the world has been transfixed – and horrified – by what’s happening in the Gaza Strip. Yet for all the media coverage...
Things do not look good for journalism right now. This year, Bell Media, VICE, and the CBC all announced significant layoffs. In the US, the...
Last year, the venture capitalist Marc Andreesen published a document he called “ The Techno-Optimist Manifesto .” In it, he argued that “ev...
If you listened to our last couple of episodes, you’ll have heard some pretty skeptical takes on AI. But if you look at the stock market rig...
Douglas Rushkoff has spent the last thirty years studying how digital technologies have shaped our world. The renowned media theorist is the...
It seems like the loudest voices in AI often fall into one of two groups. There are the boomers – the techno-optimists – who think that AI i...
Think about the last time you felt let down by the health care system. You probably don’t have to go back far. In wealthy countries around t...
Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink successfully installed one of their brain implants in a 29 year old quadriplegic man named...
When Eugenia Kuyda saw Her for the first time – the 2013 film about a man who falls in love with his virtual assistant – it didn’t read as s...
In the last few years, artificial intelligence has gone from a novelty to perhaps the most influential technology we’ve ever seen. The peopl...
We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science...