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

E351

How AI Is Reinventing Elder Care | Chia-Lin Simmons of LogicMark

Jun 1, 2026 · 53m

One in four people over 65 will experience a fall, and for most of them, the technology designed to help is a device that hasn't meaningfully changed since the…

E350

The App of the Future Is Voice — Not a Screen. Mitel's CTO Luiz Domingos Explains Why.

May 28, 2026 · 54m

Luiz Domingos has spent 25 years watching enterprise communications evolve, from IP telephony to cloud to AI, and his assessment of where things stand now is un…

E349

Is ChatGPT Conscious? A Pioneer of AI Explains | Dr. Terry Sejnowski

May 28, 2026 · 56m

A fly with 100,000 neurons can fly, find food, and reproduce. A $100 million supercomputer cannot. Dr. Terry Sejnowski used that observation to silence a room f…

E348

Your Child's Data Profile Starts Before They're Born | Eamonn Maguire of Proton

May 28, 2026 · 55m

Your child's data profile doesn't start when they get their first phone. It starts before they're born, the moment a parent emails a gynecologist or visits a fe…

E347

Training AI Models Without a Billion-Dollar Data Center | Steffen Cruz of Macrocosmos

May 25, 2026 · 47m

Training a frontier AI model today requires hundreds of thousands of GPUs, months of compute time, and a budget that only a handful of companies on earth can af…

E346

The Single Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption Isn't the Technology — It's This | Errol Gardner of EY

May 22, 2026 · 54m

Errol Gardner has spent 35 years advising the world's largest organizations through major technology transitions, and his assessment of where enterprise agentic…

E345

Oliver Dial of IBM: Quantum Advantage Is Happening This Year

May 19, 2026 · 50m

IBM's VP of Quantum Systems, Oliver Dial, has spent his career building quantum computers from the ground up, and he's unusually direct about what they can and…

E344

Why Agentic-First Startups Won't Disrupt Enterprises as Fast as Everyone Thinks | Kris Lovejoy

May 15, 2026 · 56m

Kris Lovejoy, Global Strategy Leader at Kyndryl, has spent her career at the intersection of IT infrastructure and security. Right now, she's one of the people…

E343

Loris Degioanni: Why AI Is Breaking Cybersecurity, and What Comes Next

May 6, 2026 · 51m

AI has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity threat landscape, not by inventing new attack types, but by collapsing the timeline. The same tools that make sof…

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#342 Andrew Thangaraj: The $5,000 IIT Degree: Can India Fix Its Broken Education System?

May 1, 2026 · 48m

What if the most competitive exam in the world is also the most destructive? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Professor Andrew Thangaraj…

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#341 Celia Merzbacher: Beyond the Buzzword: The Real State of Quantum Computing, Sensing, and AI in 2025

Apr 30, 2026 · 44m

What does the quantum industry actually look like right now, beneath all the hype? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Celia Merzbacher, Ex…

E340

#340 Steffen Cruz: Training AI Without Data Centres

Apr 29, 2026 · 46m

What if you could train a frontier AI model without building a single data centre? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Steffen Cruz, co-fou…

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#339 Eamonn Maguire: Your Child Has a Data Profile Before They're Born

Apr 28, 2026 · 45m

What if your child already has a data profile, and they haven't even been born yet? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Eamonn Maguire, Dir…

E338

#338 Amith Singhee: Can India Catch Up in AI? IBM's Amith Singhee on What It Will Take

Apr 24, 2026 · 46m

What if the country that trains the world's engineers finally built the infrastructure to match its talent? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down…

E337

#337 Debdas Sen: Why AI Without ROI Will Die (Again)

Apr 23, 2026 · 51m

What does it actually take to prove that AI delivers real value in the industries that keep the world running? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits do…

E336

#336 Professor Mausam: Why India Is Losing the AI Race and What It Will Take to Catch Up

Apr 20, 2026 · 1h 0m

What if the country that produces the world's top AI talent finally figured out how to keep it? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Profess…

E335

#335 Sriram Raghavan: Why IBM Is Betting Everything on Small AI Models

Apr 19, 2026 · 1h 0m

Why IBM Is Betting Everything on Small AI Models In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Sriram Raghavan, Vice President of AI at IBM Research…

E334

#334 Abhishek Singh: The $1.2 Billion Plan to Turn India Into an AI Superpower

Apr 16, 2026 · 34m

What if the country that trained the world's engineers finally decided to keep them? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Abhishek, the civi…

E332

#333 Adi Kuruganti: Why Your AI Pilot Is Failing and What It Takes to Reach Production

Apr 15, 2026 · 58m

Most enterprises are excited about agentic AI. But very few are actually deploying it in production. In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Ad…

E332

#332 Dan Faulkner: The Code Is Clean. The App Is Broken. Why AI Development Has an Integrity Problem

Apr 14, 2026 · 54m

What happens when AI writes code faster than anyone can test it? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Dan Faulkner, CEO of SmartBear, to exp…