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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.

Latest episodes

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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 Trioma, a vertically integra

Oct 16
55 min

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 and one of the primary minds

Oct 9
41 min

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 complicated, and more honest. Dan O'C

Oct 6
51 min

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 into e-points, and delivers new

Oct 2
33 min

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 single finding, from a landma

Sep 30
1 h 01 min

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 hobby computer - and that single d

Sep 24
19 min

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 network engineer using a Star

Sep 21
1 h 05 min

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 response are completely differe

Sep 14
58 min

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 frontier models are now makin

Sep 10
55 min

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 compute complexity means in practice

Sep 8
54 min

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 of Ukraine's top-five drone man

Sep 3
38 min

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 autonomy software that could

Aug 31
53 min

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 engineer in the R&D department of

Aug 27
41 min

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 commercialized IBM Watson - built Trus

Aug 24
1 h 01 min

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 real automotive production li

Aug 19
1 h 06 min

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 Sheth argues that the market is

Aug 17
50 min

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 down in the AI race. Drew Cukor

Aug 13
58 min

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's most widely used stablecoin

Aug 10
58 min

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

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 automatically,

Aug 3
59 min

Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio

Most companies think they're transforming with AI. They're not, and the gap between what they believe and what's actually happening on the ground is costing them far more

Jul 30
1 h 05 min

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After each podcast I feel well informed. More than just surface level highlighting of latest developments, it presents case studies on how to think about AI.

987362847 · Feb 2026

An insightful podcast that makes complex AI topics accessible and easy to understand. It is a a great listen for anyone interested in the future of technology.

SM405 · Mar 2025

When delving into the science and industry driving the evolution of artificial intelligence this is a podcast that you want to subscribe. Craig’s knowledge provides a framework of questions that produce a very informative podcast that will have you more informed at the end of each episode. I would add that you don’t need a science background but if you do, you will enjoy where he takes the conversations. There is no hype. No distractions. It is always a solid conversation that informs.

Fred Aebli · Jan 2023

Craig and his highly knowledgeable guests take the already fascinating study of AI and bring it to life through engaging and intellectual conversations designed to not only educate, but make you think harder about how this technology will impact our lives and our world in the future. Thanks so much for putting out such a superb show, Craig -- keep up the great work!

LisaIsHereForIt · Jan 2022

The content itself is okay enough, but the editing of the podcast is quite bad. Random jumps, cut off words, clicks, and moments of silence make it unlistenable and hard to follow. Ironically, they’re likely using an AI tool to handle all of the editing without any human oversight. I wish they could take the care to edit the show well so that the conversations flowed well.

Awesome McUppercut · Mar 2023

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