{"podcast":{"title":"Cheap Talk","slug":"cheap-talk-6049769","podcast_index_feed_id":6049769,"rss_url":"https://www.jkaplow.net/cheaptalk?format=rss","website_url":"https://www.jkaplow.net/cheaptalk/","image_url":"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c381dde4b0c32cc8284816/1676858752048-A2JOOXZO72JIQV2O7183/cheaptalklogo1.png?format=1500w","author":"Jeff Kaplow","episode_count":128,"summary":"Cheap Talk is an every-week-or-so international relations podcast with Jeff Kaplow and Marcus Holmes, professors of government at William & Mary.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-06T14:21:26.391782+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cheap-talk-6049769"},"episode":{"title":"More Efficient Powerpoint Production","slug":"more-efficient-powerpoint-production","published_at":"2025-10-22T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cheap-talk-6049769/more-efficient-powerpoint-production","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cheap-talk-6049769","url":"https://www.jkaplow.net/cheaptalk/2025/10/22/more-efficient-powerpoint-production","audio_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51c381dde4b0c32cc8284816/t/68f857b28cfca221786df902/1761105883261/CheapTalkS6E7+-+Gaza+and+AI.mp3","summary":"Ceasefires are good; Trump’s personal stake in Middle East diplomacy; the implausibility of the AI apocalypse; the incremental ceding of human control over autonomous systems; plausible mechanisms for AI control of nuclear arsenals; misalignment, poisoning, and the manipulation of AI models; and Marcus discusses the meaning of consciousness The opinions expressed on this podcast are solely our own and do not reflect the policies or positions of William & Mary. Please subscribe to Cheap Talk on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or your podcast player of choice to be notified when new episodes are posted. Check out our online store at https://cheaptalk.shop . Further Reading: Alexandra Souly et al. 2025. “Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples.” Arxiv 2510.07192 . “AI: What Could Go Wrong? With Geoffrey Hinton.” 2025. The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart. See all Cheap Talk episodes","meta_description":"Ceasefires are good; Trump’s personal stake in Middle East diplomacy; the implausibility of the AI apocalypse; the incremental ceding of human control ove…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5073,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cheap-talk-6049769/episodes/more-efficient-powerpoint-production/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cheap-talk-6049769/more-efficient-powerpoint-production.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}