- 56
- Episodes
- 54
- Transcribed
- 12
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 14K
- YouTube views
About Machines Like Us
Machines Like Us is a technology show about people. We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter. Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future. He’ll speak with entrepreneurs building world-changing technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure they’re safe, and journalists and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.
- Publisher
- The Globe and Mail
- Category
- news · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
54 of 56 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why does AI sound so much like religion?
18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Demis Hassabis wanted to solve intelligence. Then came ChatGPT.
Inside a recent episode
Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I mean, there almost certainly is, right? Yeah, absolutely. Thousands of these things, right? So how does that work? If I'm just an influencer with an average number of viewers, who do I get approached by? How does that work? Yeah, you'll be approached by a middleman. So these dark money groups, these super PACs, they hire marketing agencies or media agencies that are aligned with their cause and that those agencies will go out and identify sort of tech-friendly influencers or just... influencers that have audiences who they seek to capture or influence in some way. And they'll send you an email and be like, hey, we noticed your content. […]
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- Taylor Lorenz
- Greg Epstein
- Sebastian Mallaby
- Angelica Lim
- Marc Miller
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 13,589
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 12 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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- Quality
- 75
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 51
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