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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.

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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

"According to NASA's Definition of Life, I'm Not Alive" - Why Nobody Can Define Life | Dr. Kate Adamala

Nobody has ever built a cell from scratch - assembled entirely from purified molecules on a shelf - that can feed itself, grow, and split into daughter cells through its

Jul 29
46 min

Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia

Every company is creating content that nobody reads, nobody watches, and nobody remembers, and the CEO of the AI platform that 90% of Fortune 100 companies use to fix tha

Jul 28
39 min

6 in 10 Enterprises Can't Find the Root Cause When Their AI Workloads Fail | Paul Appleby, Virtana

Companies are spending billions building AI factories, but most of them can't tell you why their AI workloads are failing, whether their GPUs are actually being used, or

Jul 15
44 min

Inside the Enterprise Browser Rebuilding Security for the AI Era | Bradon Rogers, Island

AI is moving faster than enterprise security systems were designed to handle. In this episode of Eye on A.I., Craig Smith speaks with Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Office

Jul 13
55 min

What Industrial AI Actually Looks Like | Kriti Sharma, Nexus Black

Most AI is built for people sitting at desks. Kriti Sharma builds it for the people who work in refineries, aircraft hangars, and utility networks responding to wildfires

Jul 10
23 min

The Biggest AI Security Problem Isn't the Model. It's This. | Devvret Rishi

What is an AI agent, really? Strip away the hype, and it's a model with access - to tools, APIs, databases, email, anything that lets it take real action instead of just

Jul 7
47 min

Big Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI

It costs up to $2 billion and fifteen years to develop a drug, and big pharma still fails half the time at the final stage. BullFrog AI founder, Chairman, and CEO Vin Sin

Jul 5
49 min

AI Agents Are Failing and It's Almost Never the Model's Fault | Alberto Pan, Denodo

After two years of AI pilots, enterprises are finally diagnosing what went wrong, and the answer keeps coming back to data. Alberto Pan, CTO of Denodo, joins Craig Smith

Jul 2
41 min

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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

I’m in college and thinking about pursuing expertise in AI. I just found and want to thank this podcast because this interview (I only listened to one so far) gave me insight into that career. Every second of the interview brought me value. You gotta love podcasts.

19y.o. learner · Jul 2021

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.

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