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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#331 Sergey Levine: The Robot Revolution Nobody Is Talking About

Apr 12, 2026 · 58m

This episode is sponsored by Modulate. Most voice AI focuses on transcription. Velma takes it further by actually understanding conversations, analyzing tone, t…

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#330 Sebastian Risi: Why AI Should Be Grown, Not Trained

Apr 6, 2026 · 1h 0m

AI has been trained like software. But what if it should be grown like life? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Sebastian Risi, professor…

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#329 Izhar Medalsy: How AI Solves Quantum Computing's Biggest Problem

Mar 31, 2026 · 1h 1m

Quantum computing has been "5 years away" for decades. So what's actually holding it back? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Izhar Medals…

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#328 Kevin Tian: Exploring Doppel's AI-Native Social Engineering Defense Platform

Mar 27, 2026 · 48m

AI is changing more than just productivity. It's changing what we can trust. In this episode, Kevin Tian, Co-founder and CEO of Doppel, breaks down how AI is en…

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#327 Baris Gultekin: The Next Phase of AI - Agents That Understand Your Company's Data

Mar 19, 2026 · 42m

This episode is sponsored by Modulate. Most voice AI focuses on transcription. Velma takes it further by actually understanding conversations, analyzing tone, t…

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#326 Zuzanna Stamirowska: Inside Pathway's Post-Transformer Architecture Designed for Memory and On-the-Fly Learning

Mar 11, 2026 · 1h 7m

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#325 Phelim Brady: Why AI's Future Depends on Human Judgement

Mar 9, 2026 · 47m

AI often looks fully automated. But behind the scenes, a huge amount of human judgment is shaping how these systems actually work. In this episode, Craig Smith…

#324 Sharon Zhou: Inside AMD's Plan to Build Self-Improving AI

Feb 27, 2026 · 46m

AI is not just getting smarter. It is getting faster by learning how to optimize the hardware it runs on. In this episode, Sharon Zhou, VP of AI at AMD and form…

#323 David Ha: Why Model Merging Could Be the Next AI Breakthrough

Feb 24, 2026 · 57m

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#322 Amanda Luther: The Widening AI Value Gap (Inside BCG's AI Research)

Feb 19, 2026 · 54m

In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith speaks with Amanda Luther, Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group and global lead of BCG's AI Transformation practi…

#321 Nick Frosst: Why Cohere Is Betting on Enterprise AI, Not AGI

Feb 17, 2026 · 1h 1m

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#320 Carter Huffman: Exploring The Architecture Behind Modulate's Next-Gen Voice AI

Feb 11, 2026 · 1h 8m

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#319 Subho Halder: Why Traditional App Security Fails in the Age of AI

Feb 1, 2026 · 57m

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#318 Olek Paraska: How AI Is Fixing the Biggest Bottleneck in Construction

Jan 29, 2026 · 53m

Construction is one of the least digitized industries in the world, and not because it resists technology. It resists bad technology. In this episode of Eye on…

#317 Steven Brown: Why Modern Medicine Needs AI-Assisted Decision Making

Jan 25, 2026 · 1h 0m

In this episode of the Eye on AI Podcast, Craig Smith sits down with Steve Brown, founder of CureWise, to explore how agentic AI is reshaping healthcare from th…

#316 Robbie Goldfarb: Why the Future of AI Depends on Better Judgment

Jan 23, 2026 · 1h 3m

AI is getting smarter, but now it needs better judgment. In this episode of the Eye on AI Podcast, we speak with Robbie Goldfarb, former Meta product leader and…

#315 Jarrod Johnson: How Agentic AI Is Impacting Modern Customer Service

Jan 21, 2026 · 57m

In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Jarrod Johnson, Chief Customer Officer at TaskUs, to unpack how agentic AI is changing customer service…

#314 Nick Pandher: How Inference-First Infrastructure Is Powering the Next Wave of AI

Jan 17, 2026 · 56m

Inference is now the biggest challenge in enterprise AI. In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith speaks with Nick Pandher, VP of Product at Cirrascale, about…

#313 Evan Reiser: How Abnormal AI Protects Humans with Behavioral AI

Jan 16, 2026 · 49m

In this episode of Eye on AI, we sit down with Evan Reiser, co-founder and CEO of Abnormal AI, to unpack how AI has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity land…

#312 Jonathan Wall: AI Agents Are Reshaping the Future of Compute Infrastructure

Jan 11, 2026 · 52m

In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith speaks with Jonathan Wall, founder and CEO of Runloop AI, about why AI agents require an entirely new approach to comp…