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Eye On A.I.

Craig S. Smith

Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence....

Episodes

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How Zip's AI Superagents Automate Procurement End-to-End | Rujul Zaparde

Every business in the world has to procure things, and for most of them, that process is slow, manual, and full of money left on the table....

51:05Oct 23, 2026

Is This the Cheapest Way to Use AI in 2026? (65+ Models Tested) | Iskander Malikov, Trioma

What if you didn't have to choose between ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and instead, the platform chose for you? That's the core idea behind...

55:13Oct 16, 2026

Chat GPT's Creator Explains The Shocking Truth About How AI Understands the World | Ilya Sutskever

Craig Smith sits down with Ilya Sutskever - Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Safe Superintelligence Inc. & former chief scientist at OpenAI...

43:39Oct 9, 2026

The Coordination Tax: Why AI Is Burning Out Your Best People | Dan O'Connell, Front

Everyone assumes AI in customer operations means fewer people and lower costs. The data from 700 customer operations leaders is more complic...

51:14Oct 6, 2026

Ukraine's Secret Weapon: The Points System Winning the Drone War | Andrii Hrytseniuk

Ukraine tracks every confirmed drone kill with video evidence, deduplicates the data to prevent double-counting, converts verified strikes i...

33:54Oct 2, 2026

Why Current AI Cannot Be Conscious | Dr. Christof Koch

One in four patients currently being considered for life support withdrawal may actually be fully conscious, they just can't signal it. That...

01:01:59Sep 30, 2026

The Technology for Fully Autonomous Attack Is Already Here | Alex Liannyi, NORDA Dynamics

The AI systems guiding Ukrainian combat drones aren't running on expensive Nvidia chips. They're running on a Raspberry Pi Zero - a $15 hobb...

19:09Sep 24, 2026

Inside Ukraine's Drone War: Maj. "Phoenix" of Lasar's Group

The first armed drone Ukraine ever fielded wasn't built in a factory or procured from a defense contractor. It was built in four months by a...

01:05:49Sep 21, 2026

The Hidden Algorithm That Decides Which Software AI Will Recommend | Tim Sanders, G2

Most companies investing in AI visibility are optimizing for the wrong thing. Being cited by an AI response and being recommended by an AI r...

58:49Sep 14, 2026

The Reason 30 Years of Cybersecurity Has Failed - and What Actually Fixes It | Trent Telford, Qanapi

Every major data breach in the last 30 years shares the same root cause: the data inside the wall was never protected, only the wall. And AI...

55:19Sep 10, 2026

86% of What Coding Agents Do Is Just Reading — Not Solving | Alexander Whedon of Subquadratic

Every AI model in production today has the same hidden tax: doubling the context window quadruples the compute. That's what quadratic comput...

54:45Sep 8, 2026

From 10 Drones a Month to Nearly 100,000 — Inside Ukraine's Largest Drone Manufacturer | Marko Kushnir, General Cherry

In 2023, General Cherry started making 10 drones a month. Today they're approaching 100,000. Marko Kushnir, communications director of one o...

38:17Sep 3, 2026

In 5 to 10 Years, Using Weapons Without AI Will Be Considered Unethical | Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law

A Ukrainian entrepreneur who spent 14 years building cameras for pets pivoted to building cameras that down Shaheds, and is now building the...

53:10Aug 31, 2026

Inside Ukraine's Azov Drone R&D: The Engineer Building AI Weapons 18 km From the Front Line | Alexander Palamarchuk

The most consequential arms race in the world right now isn't nuclear, it's software. Craig Smith speaks with Alexander Palamarchuk, an engi...

41:48Aug 27, 2026

95% of AI Agent Projects Fail to Reach Production. Here's Why | Manoj Saxena, TrustWise

It takes a few hours to build an AI agent. It takes six to seven months to get it into production. Manoj Saxena - the executive who commerci...

01:01:49Aug 24, 2026

From Zero to 150 Robots in Just 20 Months | Mike LeBlanc, Foundation Future Industries

Most humanoid robot companies are still running curated demos in replica environments. Foundation Future Industries is running 150 robots on...

01:06:23Aug 19, 2026

Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI - and What That Means for the Chip Market | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix

The AI chip market looks monolithic from the outside - NVIDIA dominates, and everyone else is fighting for scraps. But d-Matrix's CEO Sid Sh...

50:46Aug 17, 2026

American Companies Have 36 Months to Go AI-Native or Get Left Behind | Drew Cukor, TWG AI

The same tools that slowed the U.S. military down in Afghanistan (PowerPoint, Excel, email, and Word) are now slowing American businesses do...

58:43Aug 13, 2026

In 5 Years, 90% of What You Use AI For Will Run on Your Smartphone | Paolo Ardoino, Tether

Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing into AI data centers right now, and Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether - the company behind the world'...

58:37Aug 10, 2026

Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix

The AI chip market looks monolithic from the outside - NVIDIA dominates, and everyone else is fighting for scraps. But d-Matrix's CEO Sid Sh...

50:46Aug 6, 2026