The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy.

Machines Like Us is a technology show about people.

We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter.

Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future. He’ll speak with entrepreneurs building world-changing technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure they’re safe, and journalists and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, it suddenly seemed like conspiracy theories were everywhere. And a recent poll found that 1 in 4 Canadians believe in online conspiracy theories. We’re no longer just living in different information bubbles. We’re living in different realities. On this season of Screen Time, Taylor Owen and Supriya Dwivedi dive into the murky world of online conspiracy theories and misinformation, trying and understand how we got there – and how we might bring us back.

Depending who you ask, big tech is either going to save humanity or destroy us. Taylor Owen thinks it’s a little more complicated than that. Join him in conversation with leading thinkers as they make sense of a world transformed by technology.Goes Here