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Podcasts and AI

There are lots of podcasts about AI that can help students, faculty, and the general population better understand the myriad ways that AI might impact our worlds. I tend to mostly listen to NPR and the shows found there, so you’ll see a lot of econ-related topics. These are some of the podcasts that have been helpful to me in figuring out how to present AI to people who are still learning about it.

Feel free to drop me a comment if there are others that you think might be helpful to add.

Marketplace Tech

  • July 27, 2023. How companies are trying to leverage AI. The vast majority of C-suite leaders plan to invest in these tools and incorporate them into their operations, according to a report by tech consulting giant Accenture.
  • July 24, 2023. What our nuclear history can teach us about AI. Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains where comparisons of developing artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons work and where they fail.
  • July 21, 2023. (This one is at the end of a week of podcasts on AI.) Special: What happens when AI goes to work. We’ve taken a week off from our usual programming to research and report on the rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace. In our “AI on the Job” series, we looked into the ways this technology is automating some jobs, simplifying others, competing with human workers and creating entirely new careers.
  • July 17, 2023. AI on the Job: How generative tools automate and augment some parts of work. Many industries are implementing various forms of generative artificial intelligence in the workplace. Experts differ on whether the technology will cause mass unemployment.
  • July 14, 2023. Love in the time of AI. Millions of people are forming relationships with artificial intelligence chatbots. Marco Dehnert of Arizona State University says users are seeking friendship, late-night conversation or romance. He expects social acceptance of those relationships to grow.

Planet Money

This was a short 3-part series that Planet Money did to see if AI could write an acceptable podcast for them. Really interesting listen.

  • May 26, 2023. Can ChatGPT write a podcast episode? Can AI take our jobs? In this first episode, we try to teach the AI how to write a script for us from scratch. Can the AI do research for us, interview our sources, and then stitch everything together in a creative, entertaining way? We’re going to find out just how much of our own jobs we can automate — and what work might soon look like for us all.
  • May 31, 2023. Grimes used AI to clone her own voice. We cloned the voice of a host of Planet Money. Our next task was to teach the computer how to sound like us. How to read that script aloud like a Planet Money host.
  • June 2, 2023. Our first podcast episode made by AI. It’s the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series on AI — the world premiere of the first episode of Planet Money written by AI. In Part 1 of this series, we taught AI how to write an original Planet Money script by feeding it real research and interviews.