Eye On A.I.

Eye On A.I.

by 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. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
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Episodes 390 total

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

Oct 16, 2026 · 55m

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 Trioma, a vertically…

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

Oct 9, 2026 · 41m

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

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

Oct 6, 2026 · 51m

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

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

Oct 2, 2026 · 33m

Ukraine tracks every confirmed drone kill with video evidence, deduplicates the data to prevent double-counting, converts verified strikes into e-points, and de…

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Why Current AI Cannot Be Conscious | Dr. Christof Koch

Sep 30, 2026 · 1h 1m

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

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

Sep 24, 2026 · 19m

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

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

Sep 21, 2026 · 1h 5m

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 network engineer us…

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

Sep 14, 2026 · 58m

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

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

Sep 10, 2026 · 55m

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 frontier models are…

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

Sep 8, 2026 · 54m

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

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

Sep 3, 2026 · 38m

In 2023, General Cherry started making 10 drones a month. Today they're approaching 100,000. Marko Kushnir, communications director of one of Ukraine's top-five…

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

Aug 31, 2026 · 53m

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

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

Aug 27, 2026 · 41m

The most consequential arms race in the world right now isn't nuclear, it's software. Craig Smith speaks with Alexander Palamarchuk, an engineer in the R&D depa…

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

Aug 24, 2026 · 1h 1m

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 commercialized IBM Watson -…

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

Aug 19, 2026 · 1h 6m

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

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

Aug 17, 2026 · 50m

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

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

Aug 13, 2026 · 58m

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

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

Aug 10, 2026 · 58m

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

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

Aug 6, 2026 · 50m

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

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AI Agents Fixing Your IT Before You Even Know Something Broke | Erhan Giral & Ryan Manning, BMC Helix

Aug 3, 2026 · 59m

Most enterprise IT teams spend the majority of their time fighting the same fires repeatedly. BMC Helix is building the AI system that handles those fires autom…