# We're Getting Frog-Boiled by AI (with Kelsey Piper)

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-argument-7510944/we-re-getting-frog-boiled-by-ai-with-kelsey-piper
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-argument-7510944/we-re-getting-frog-boiled-by-ai-with-kelsey-piper.md
Podcast: [The Argument](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-argument-7510944)
Published: 2026-01-06T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.theargumentmag.com/s/the-argument-podcast
Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2541989/episodes/18459936-we-re-getting-frog-boiled-by-ai-with-kelsey-piper.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-argument-7510944/episodes/we-re-getting-frog-boiled-by-ai-with-kelsey-piper
Duration seconds: 4092

## Resource

A lot of Americans are uneasy about AI, and so are many of the people building it. Yet we keep scaling and deploying these systems faster than we’re building rules to govern them. Why? The Argument's Kelsey Piper has a few explanations, from foreign competition to a sense of inevitability to a conservative party terrified of regulation. Even if the incentives are clear, our collective complacency is not, especially given AI models have already attempted blackmail and in one case a...

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-argument-7510944/episodes/we-re-getting-frog-boiled-by-ai-with-kelsey-piper/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-argument-7510944/we-re-getting-frog-boiled-by-ai-with-kelsey-piper.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.