"There is this sort of pride that [DeepSeek] was Chinese-made, and also given to the public as a benefit for the good, which is what OpenAI originally founded itself to do" — Karen Hao on Machines Like Us. Listen: tgam.ca/karenhao

"Say Musk tweaks the algorithm in the last 2 weeks of the Canadian #elxn45, and that changes a few seats and leads to a different gov't. If there's a 5% chance of something like this happening, we should be fundamentally concerned, because it's existential for our future," says

Journalism is in crisis at a time we need it most. At the Media Ecosystem Observatory's Attention conference in Montreal, Taylor Owen spoke with Jay Rosen about our post-truth era, journalists' role in bringing it on, and what might come next. Watch: youtu.be/cD1Hx5nBLYc

For the final episode of season 1, Taylor Owen sits down with one of Canada's top business leaders, Jim Balsillie, for a wide-ranging conversation about Trump, Canada, and how we might build a stronger, more sovereign country. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/hTXhkBLc1TQ?fe…

"Anybody with a public broadcaster that large and influential should feel very fortunate" — Jay Rosen (professor of journalism at NYU).

About to record the first interview of Machines Like Us Podcast Season 2 in my new studio. We have some incredible guests lined up for the fall. The Globe and Mail McGill University CIFAR

S2 of Machines Like Us Podcast launches next week. In addition to our feature interviews we'll be doing regular chats between my producer Mitch and I. Here's the first. We dive into new chatbot safety lawsuits, online harms regs, & AI in higher Ed youtu.be/RnBSfaybuZ4?si… The Globe and Mail

From our season 2 premiere ft. Niall Ferguson

In the lead-up to recording this episode of Machines Like Us, my producer Mitch shared a song with me from a band that doesn’t exist. Velvet Sundown’s “Dust on the Wind” sounds like it came straight out of a 70s playlist. Lynyrd Skynyrd meets CCR meets Tom Petty. It’s also

🇨🇦 Canada is too often a wait-and-see country when it comes to digital governance. 🎧 Here's Taylor Owen, Director @mediatechdem / Host of Machines Like Us Podcast, on our podcast this week. 📹 The AmberMac Show at Attention: Govern or be Governed cc Jeff MacArthur

In April, Jim Balsillie (former Chair & Co-CEO, Research in Motion) joined Taylor Owen on Machines Like Us Podcast, where he asserted that Canada's problem isn't Trump, "Canada's problem is Canada." At #AttnGovernOrBeGoverned, they reunited to talk about un-capturing democracy. 🧵

Jim Balsillie addressed the current sovereignty crisis, describing the situation as a multi-decade failure exacerbated by bullying from the U.S. and Trump. You can hear more from his conversation with Taylor Owen here: youtu.be/-Isg3sPf9nw?si…