# Should AI be part of life's biggest moments? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/should-ai-be-part-of-life-s-biggest-moments Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/should-ai-be-part-of-life-s-biggest-moments.md Podcast: [The Evan Bray Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843) Published: 2026-06-09T16:24:00+00:00 Episode link: https://iono.fm/e/1684383 Audio file: https://dl.iono.fm/epi/prov_519/epi_1684383_medium.m4a?p=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/episodes/should-ai-be-part-of-life-s-biggest-moments Duration seconds: 970 ## Resource Whether you like it or not, Artificial intelligence is showing up everywhere these days, and the changes are happening fast. Big changes are coming to the search engine Google and how it uses AI, colleges are facing criticism for using it during graduation ceremonies and this is all while Canada announces its own AI plan and construction begins for a massive data centre south of Regina. Brian McQuinn, an associate professor at the University of Regina and co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data and Conflict, joins us now to make sense of the ever-changing AI news. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/episodes/should-ai-be-part-of-life-s-biggest-moments/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-evan-bray-show-6704843/should-ai-be-part-of-life-s-biggest-moments.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.