{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace All-in-One","slug":"marketplace-all-in-one-432449","podcast_index_feed_id":432449,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-all-in-one","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-all-in-one/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/42678d7cee457635dc6a949a428baf19c2d7d3ab/square/0892f3-20250418-marketplace-all-in-one-podcast-cover-art-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":250,"summary":"Marketplace® is the leading business news program in the nation. We bring you clear explorations of how economic news affects you, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. The Marketplace All-in-One podcast provides each episode of the public radio broadcast programs Marketplace, Marketplace Morning Report®and Marketplace Tech® along with our podcasts Make Me Smart, Corner Office and The Uncertain Hour. Visit marketplace.org for more. From American Public Media.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T22:17:08.914429+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-all-in-one-432449"},"episode":{"title":"AI bots are collecting debts — or at least trying to","slug":"ai-bots-are-collecting-debts-or-at-least-trying-to","published_at":"2026-06-03T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-all-in-one-432449/ai-bots-are-collecting-debts-or-at-least-trying-to","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-all-in-one-432449","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/06/03/ai-bots-are-collecting-debts-or-at-least-trying-to","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/06/03/tech_20260603_0603_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-AllNOne&awEpisodeId=01KT4JFZXWNGJ1XHEJPN7FNMMJ","summary":"If you have a debt, you may get a call, a letter or a text prodding you to pay it back. Now, that call could come from an AI agent. The AI debt collection market is expected to reach $16 billion by 2034, according to the Kaplan Group. Kate Nibbs of Wired has been reporting on this and said these bots are not as effective at getting people to pay back the money they owe.","meta_description":"If you have a debt, you may get a call, a letter or a text prodding you to pay it back. Now, that call could come from an AI agent. The AI debt collection…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":450,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-all-in-one-432449/episodes/ai-bots-are-collecting-debts-or-at-least-trying-to/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-all-in-one-432449/ai-bots-are-collecting-debts-or-at-least-trying-to.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}