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Since Oct 2018
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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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One Company Now Has More AI Agents Than Human Employees | Ryan Gavin of Slack

Jun 13, 2026 53m

One company now has more AI agents deployed in its organization than it has human employees. Slack's CMO Ryan Gavin dropped that stat into a conversation with Craig Smith, and then immediately…

AI Is Already Resolving 90% of Customer Service Tickets - and It's Getting Smarter | Shashi Upadhyay, Zendesk

Jun 12, 2026 57m

Zendesk went private two weeks before ChatGPT launched, and the moment it came out, it was obvious that customer service would never be the same again. Shashi Upadhyay, head of product, engineering,…

Every Enterprise Is About to Have a 100,000 Agent Problem | Oren Michaels of Barndoor AI

Jun 06, 2026 59m

AI agents can now connect to every tool your employees use. The problem is that connecting them and trusting them are two completely different things, and most enterprises have figured out the first…

More Customers Chose the AI Agent Than Anyone Expected | Tom Chen, Aircall

Jun 04, 2026 56m

Every time you hit a phone tree or a chatbot with canned answers, you're experiencing the gap between what AI can already do and what most companies are still delivering. Craig Smith sits down with…

Why the Future of AI Isn't Just Bigger Models. It's Models That Evolve | Risto Miikkulainen of Cognizant

Jun 02, 2026 1h 4m

Most AI systems follow a gradient, a mathematical slope that tells them exactly how to improve, step by step, toward a known goal. Neuroevolution doesn't follow any gradient. Instead, it runs…

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

Jun 01, 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 1980s. Chia-Lin Simmons, CEO of…

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 unusually concrete. Companies have moved…

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 full of MIT AI researchers in the 1980s,…

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 fertility clinic website. That's the core…

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 afford. Steffen Cruz, co-founder and CTO…

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 AI actually stands is one of the most…

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 can't do. In this conversation with…

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 enterprises call when they want to move…

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

May 06, 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 software developers more productive are…

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

May 01, 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, faculty at the Department of…

#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, Executive Director of the Quantum…

#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-founder and CTO of Macrocosmos, to explore…

#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, Director of Engineering for AI and ML at…

#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 with Amith Singhee, Director of IBM…

#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 down with Debdas Sen, CEO of TCG Digital…

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