# Escaping hospitality's "AI hype echo chamber" Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204/escaping-hospitality-s-ai-hype-echo-chamber Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204/escaping-hospitality-s-ai-hype-echo-chamber.md Podcast: [CoStar News Hotels](https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204) Published: 2026-07-08T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/3180dbcb Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/3180dbcb/4fe388d0.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/costar-news-hotels-6474204/episodes/escaping-hospitality-s-ai-hype-echo-chamber Duration seconds: 2008 ## Resource Max Spangler, vice president of technology of third-party hotel management company Charlestowne Hotels, joins CoStar News Hotels reporter Natalie Harms to discuss the practical uses of artificial intelligence in the hotel business and the advancement of cybersecurity threats as technology develops at a rapid pace. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/costar-news-hotels-6474204/episodes/escaping-hospitality-s-ai-hype-echo-chamber/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/costar-news-hotels-6474204/escaping-hospitality-s-ai-hype-echo-chamber.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.