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Season 1

  • S01E01 Can AI Really Understand?

    • April 27, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI Decoded looks at the Chinese room argument, which challenges the claim AI can genuinely understand language, let alone possess true consciousness.

  • S01E02 AI and the Future of Travel

    • May 4, 2025
    • BBC News

    A new generation of AI-powered chatbots is streamlining the booking process, handling everything from flight searches and hotel reservations to payment and baggage tracking.

  • S01E03 US-China Tech War

    • May 17, 2025
    • BBC News

    The race for artificial intelligence supremacy is intensifying, with the US and China locked in a strategic battle that extends beyond technology into geopolitics, economic dominance and national security.

  • S01E04 AI Drone Warfare

    • May 24, 2025
    • BBC News

    Drones, artificial intelligence, and robots are playing an increasingly important role in warfare. These new technologies are transforming weapons systems and upending traditional military strategies on the battlefield.

  • S01E05 AI and the Future of Work

    • May 31, 2025
    • BBC News

    Upskilling the workforce to take full advantage of AI will be vital in many areas of employment. However, there remains much debate on the ways that AI could or should intersect with work.

  • S01E06 AI and the Future of Education

    • June 7, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI Decoded looks at the potential of artificial intelligence to transform the educational environment from a traditional setting into a much more innovative and interactive learning space.

  • S01E07 Is Google About to Destroy the Internet

    • June 14, 2025
    • BBC News

    Google has promised a radical, 'total reimagining of Search' that will usher in a golden age of the web. But a chorus of critics and on-the-ground victims decry catastrophic losses, accusing the tech giant of prioritizing its AI ambitions over the future of the web.

  • S01E08 AI and Superintelligence

    • July 5, 2025
    • BBC News

    Experts predict AI may reach superintelligence, though timelines vary significantly, with some estimating a 50 per cent chance by 2047 and others predicting it could happen sooner or never.

  • S01E09 Will AGI Become a Reality

    • July 5, 2025
    • BBC News

    The idea of artificial intelligence being as smart and versatile as a human being sounds like science fiction. But with the rapid pace of AI development, more and more experts are asking: how long will it take before we reach Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? The moment an AI can reason independently, invent new concepts, and adapt as flexibly as we do.

  • S01E10 Does AI Make Doctors Better?

    • September 20, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI Decoded speaks to NHS doctors who have successfully developed an artificial intelligence-led stethoscope that can detect three heart conditions in 15 seconds.

  • S01E11 UN Urgent Call on AI Safety

    • September 27, 2025
    • BBC News

    At the United Nations General Assembly, over 200 prominent politicians and scientists, including 10 Nobel Prize winners and many leading artificial intelligence researchers, released an urgent call for binding international measures against dangerous uses of AI.

  • S01E12 AI and Robotics

    • October 4, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI Decoded features Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics lab where researchers use artificial intelligence to enable robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools and act to better solve complex tasks.

  • S01E13 OpenAI Releases Sora 2

    • October 11, 2025
    • BBC News

    OpenAI releases its latest video-generation model, which it claims is more physically accurate, realistic and controllable than prior systems.

  • S01E14 Is AI an Existential Risk?

    • October 18, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI safety guru Connor Leahy explains and explores the unintended risks, and also benefits, of unregulated artificial intelligence.

  • S01E15 AI Drones of the Future

    • November 1, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI Decoded investigates the integration of artificial intelligence and drone technology and its real-world impact today.

  • S01E16 Stephen Fry Meets Godfather of AI

    • November 8, 2025
    • BBC News

    Sir Stephen Fry joins the renowned Canadian computer scientist and 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio to discuss their shared concerns over the development of advanced AI systems.

  • S01E17 Hackers Hijack AI Agents

    • November 15, 2025
    • BBC News

    Companies are racing to deploy AI agents - autonomous systems poised to transform how we work, create and defend ourselves. Cybersecurity experts warn of a chilling risk.

  • S01E18 Will the AI Boom Go Bust?

    • November 22, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI Decoded explores whether the current AI boom is a bubble or a genuine technological shift. We hear from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, plus Financial Times AI Editor Madhumita Murgia.

  • S01E19 An AI App to Remember the Dead?

    • November 29, 2025
    • BBC News

    Disney star Calum Worthy's AI start-up 2wai claims to help memorialize loved ones by creating interactive digital clones of the deceased. But is this innovation comforting - or dystopian?

  • S01E20 Can AI Crack the Code of Aging?

    • December 6, 2025
    • BBC News

    The race to unlock the secret of a longer life is officially on - and two brilliant millennial sisters in a Cambridge lab might be closer than anyone else.

  • S01E21 US China AI Chip War

    • December 13, 2025
    • BBC News

    AI is transforming the world, and fuelling a fierce competition for chips that power it. The United States and China are locked in a high-stakes battle for dominance in advanced AI technology.