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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Inside Ukraine's Azov Drone R&D: The Engineer Building AI Weapons 18 km From the Front Line | Alexander Palamarchuk
Aug 27, 2026
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 Ukraine's Azov Brigade…
95% of AI Agent Projects Fail to Reach Production. Here's Why | Manoj Saxena, TrustWise
Aug 24, 2026
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 TrustWise around one thesis…
From Zero to 150 Robots in Just 20 Months | Mike LeBlanc, Foundation Future Industries
Aug 19, 2026
Most humanoid robot companies are still running curated demos in replica environments. Foundation Future Industries is running 150 robots on real automotive production lines in Georgia, and heading…
Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI - and What That Means for the Chip Market | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix
Aug 17, 2026
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 quietly splitting into two…
American Companies Have 36 Months to Go AI-Native or Get Left Behind | Drew Cukor, TWG AI
Aug 13, 2026
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 spent 30 years as a Marine…
In 5 Years, 90% of What You Use AI For Will Run on Your Smartphone | Paolo Ardoino, Tether
Aug 10, 2026
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 with 573 million users -…
Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix
Aug 06, 2026
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 quietly splitting into two…
AI Agents Fixing Your IT Before You Even Know Something Broke | Erhan Giral & Ryan Manning, BMC Helix
Aug 03, 2026
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, detecting anomalies, tracing…
Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio
Jul 30, 2026
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 than they realize. In this…
"According to NASA's Definition of Life, I'm Not Alive" - Why Nobody Can Define Life | Dr. Kate Adamala
Jul 29, 2026
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 own genetic activity. Until…
Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia
Jul 28, 2026
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 that just explained what comes…
6 in 10 Enterprises Can't Find the Root Cause When Their AI Workloads Fail | Paul Appleby, Virtana
Jul 15, 2026
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 what their infrastructure is…
Inside the Enterprise Browser Rebuilding Security for the AI Era | Bradon Rogers, Island
Jul 13, 2026
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 Officer at Island, Island about how…
What Industrial AI Actually Looks Like | Kriti Sharma, Nexus Black
Jul 10, 2026
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 at 4 a.m. and she spends…
The Biggest AI Security Problem Isn't the Model. It's This. | Devvret Rishi
Jul 07, 2026
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 generating text. That access…
Big Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI
Jul 05, 2026
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 Singh joins Craig Smith with a…
AI Agents Are Failing and It's Almost Never the Model's Fault | Alberto Pan, Denodo
Jul 02, 2026
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 to walk through the findings…
How Modern Science Got Consciousness Wrong From the Start | Philip Goff
Jun 29, 2026
What if consciousness isn't a byproduct of complex brains, but a fundamental feature of reality itself, present, in some rudimentary form, all the way down to electrons and quarks? Philip Goff, a…
AI Is Reading 15 Million X-Rays a Year With No Human in the Loop | Prashant Warier, Qure.ai
Jun 20, 2026
Eighty percent of lung cancer cases are diagnosed too late, not because the signals aren't there, but because nobody was looking at the right moment. Prashant Warier, co-founder and CEO of Qure.ai…
Only 12% of Companies Generate Value From AI. Here's What They're Doing | Sanjeev Vohra, Genpact
Jun 18, 2026
Genpact surveyed 500 senior executives to understand why companies are investing in AI but not seeing the value, and what they found was both clarifying and uncomfortable. Sanjeev Vohra, Genpact's…
India Is Becoming an Architect of the Global AI Order | Ivana Bartoletti of Wipro
Jun 16, 2026
The Global AI Summit just happened in New Delhi, and the message from India was clear: this country is no longer just writing code for the rest of the world. It's becoming an architect of the global…
The New BRAIN Of the Enterprise | Ryan Gavin
Jun 13, 2026
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
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 05, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
