{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:47.058590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"AI firms are going back on their safety promises","slug":"ai-firms-are-going-back-on-their-safety-promises","published_at":"2026-07-20T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/ai-firms-are-going-back-on-their-safety-promises","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/07/20/ai-firms-are-going-back-on-their-safety-promises","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/07/20/tech_20260720_0720_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KXNNBG6B3Z1VCDV67ADHNT2D","summary":"As top AI firms race to develop a “superintelligent” agent — one that surpasses human cognition — are they prioritizing safety guardrails along the way? Not according to the Future of Life Institute’s AI Safety Index , which reported that companies have gone back on their own promises to take a pause if their technology ever got close to certain risky points. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Sabina Nong, AI safety investigator at the Future of Life Institute, about what measures might ensure durable safety around AI moving forward.","meta_description":"As top AI firms race to develop a “superintelligent” agent — one that surpasses human cognition — are they prioritizing safety guardrails along the way? N…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":486,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/ai-firms-are-going-back-on-their-safety-promises/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/ai-firms-are-going-back-on-their-safety-promises.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}