Black Box by The Guardian

In one of the most remote corners of the Amazon jungle, a journalist and an indigenous defender disappear without a trace. Missing in the Amazon – our new six-part investigative podcast series uncovers what happened to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira. Told for the first time by the people closest to them.

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• Missing in the Amazon: the frontline – episode six

  Monday, 30 June 2025

  34 minutes

  According to Beto Marubo, if Dom and Bruno did the same expedition in 2025, they would face the same levels of danger. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, returns to the Javari valley and meets those risking their lives daily basis to fight the threats from organised crime. Is it possible to save the Amazon?For all links mentioned at the end of this episode, visit Missing in the Amazon at the Guardian

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• Missing in the Amazon: the fightback – episode five

  Monday, 23 June 2025

  39 minutes

  Funerals are held for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira and there is hope that the election of President Lula will mean new protections for the Amazon – and that the killers of Dom and Bruno will face justice. But organised crime is widespread and deep-rooted. The investigative journalist Sônia Bridi tells the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips about a man who allegedly not only may have helped plan the killings but may have ordered them. A man whose name strikes fear across the region

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• Missing in the Amazon: the ambush – episode four

  Monday, 16 June 2025

  26 minutes

  The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, recalls the moment that he and others on the search team found Dom and Bruno’s belongings in a hidden area of flooded forest. The team finally discover what has happened to the men

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• Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher – episode three

  Monday, 9 June 2025

  35 minutes

  Bruno Pereira was considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, reports on the story of the two men and what happened when their paths collided

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• Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two

  Thursday, 5 June 2025

  30 minutes

  What took British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of MixMag to one of the most remote, and dangerous, corners of the Amazon rainforest? In 2022, Dom set off on a reporting trip with Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on uncontacted tribes, into the Javari valley, to investigate the criminal gangs threatening this region. And then they vanished

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• Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode one

  Thursday, 5 June 2025

  27 minutes

  Three years ago, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series

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• Missing in the Amazon: a new Guardian investigative series – trailer

  Wednesday, 4 June 2025

  30 seconds

  In one of the most remote corners of the Amazon jungle, a journalist and an indigenous defender disappear without a trace. Missing in the Amazon – our new six-part investigative podcast series uncovers what happened to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira. Told for the first time by the people closest to them

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• Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7

  Thursday, 21 March 2024

  42 minutes

  For decades, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been trying to warn the world about the dangers of AI. And now people are finally listening to him. But is it too late?

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• Black Box: the white mask – episode 6

  Monday, 18 March 2024

  36 minutes

  In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed. The officers were acting on a tip not from a witness or informant. In fact, not from a person at all

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• Black Box: Bing and I – episode 5

  Thursday, 14 March 2024

  42 minutes

  Two stories about the way AI could – in fact, already is – making the world better. In Montana, when Lee Johnson discovered his wife, Yokie, had cancer, he turned to AI – and was surprised by the answers he got. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts Prof Regina Barzilay’s experience with cancer has led her to build an AI system that can detect the disease years before a human

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• Black Box: repocalypse now – episode 4

  Monday, 11 March 2024

  35 minutes

  When Eugenia Kuyda created Replika, the AI companion app, she had no idea it would be downloaded millions of times all around the world. The results were more powerful than she could ever have predicted. But so was the backlash

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• Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff, the deepfake porn app – episode 3

  Thursday, 7 March 2024

  46 minutes

  For the past six months, Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes that are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?

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• Black Box: the connectionists – episode 2

  Monday, 4 March 2024

  40 minutes

  This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequences

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• Black Box: the collision – episode 1

  Thursday, 29 February 2024

  14 minutes

  The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him?

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• Black Box: a new podcast series about AI and us – trailer

  Thursday, 15 February 2024

  3 minutes

  In rural Norway, a young woman’s boyfriend forgets who she is overnight. In Detroit, a man is arrested for a crime, but he was never there. In a Spanish town, disturbing pictures of young girls have appeared, but no one knows who is behind them. In this new series from the Guardian, we’ll explore what it is that connects all these stories: the collision between people and artificial intelligence. Coming soon …

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• Can I tell you a secret? Episode seven: an update

  Monday, 10 October 2022

  11 minutes

  Guardian producer Lucy Hough and reporter Matthew Weaver give an update on the outcome of Matthew Hardy’s appeal

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• Can I tell you a secret? Episode six: the winding clock

  Friday, 23 September 2022

  33 minutes

  As the years tick by, journalist Sirin Kale speaks to victims and those who know Matthew to ask whether his stalking will ever truly end

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• Can I tell you a secret? Episode five: a mother’s love

  Friday, 23 September 2022

  43 minutes

  Journalist Sirin Kale meets Matthew’s mother to uncover more about his past, and find out what might have motivated him to cyberstalk his victims for so many years

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• Can I tell you a secret? Episode four: a reckoning

  Friday, 23 September 2022

  40 minutes

  Matthew’s victims come face to face with him as an attempt is made to stop his torment once and for all

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• Can I tell you a secret? Episode three: the man upstairs

  Friday, 23 September 2022

  35 minutes

  Who is Matthew? Journalist Sirin Kale looks for clues about who this cyberstalker really is and why he creates chaos and fear in so many people’s lives

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• Can I tell you a secret? Episode two: the widening circle

  Friday, 23 September 2022

  40 minutes

  As the cyberstalker spreads his net wider, anyone could be a target. The fast-changing world of social media creates new opportunities for him to find more victims. Only now, someone is watching him …

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• Can I tell you a secret? Episode one: the beginning

  Friday, 23 September 2022

  34 minutes

  Guardian journalist Sirin Kale takes us to a small town in the north of England to uncover how one man began a decade of cyberstalking

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