{"podcast":{"title":"muckrAIkers","slug":"muckraikers-7026051","podcast_index_feed_id":7026051,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/muckraikers","website_url":"https://kairos.fm/muckraikers/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2Xoj9Q8V0g3EZ4QkfrR-DMBxWLBu5eO1bikePOFS7Ng/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MzQ3/NzVkMTk3MWFiM2Nl/ZDRmNzFhMGQxZDQ3/MzM3Yi5wbmc.jpg","author":"Jacob Haimes","episode_count":25,"summary":"Join us as we dig a tiny bit deeper into the hype surrounding \"AI\" press releases, research papers, and more. Each episode, we'll highlight ongoing research and investigations, providing some much needed contextualization, constructive critique, and even a smidge of occasional good will teasing to the conversation, trying to find the meaning under all of this muck.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T04:21:26.211565+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/muckraikers-7026051"},"episode":{"title":"The Mythical AI Bear","slug":"the-mythical-ai-bear","published_at":"2026-03-17T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/muckraikers-7026051/the-mythical-ai-bear","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/muckraikers-7026051","url":"https://kairos.fm/muckraikers/e021","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/media.transistor.fm/c3b2220c/606ab054.mp3","summary":"This week, Jacob and Igor dissect the \"mythical AI bear,\" the strawman version of AI criticism that gets thrown around in tech discourse. Working through a viral blog post that typifies the genre, they examine how legitimate concerns about code quality, labor displacement, intellectual property, and the erosion of craft get flattened into caricature. Plus: Sam Altman writes ten paragraphs about how unbothered he is by an ad. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction (00:30) - Altman's Super Bowl Meltdown (03:11) - What is \"The Bear\"? (06:41) - But You Have No Idea What The Code Is (15:44) - But The Craft, But The Mediocrity, But It'll Never Be AGI (24:43) - But They Take Our Jobs & But The Plagiarism (31:21) - Stochastic Parrots & Mythical Bears (42:34) - Outro Critical Links Below are the most important links for this episode. For more, visit the episode page on Kairos.fm. Big Think article - The rise of AI denialism Fly.io blogpost - My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts antirez blogpost - Don't fall into the anti-AI hype Emily Bender blogpost - Resistance Isn't Denialism Cory Doctorow blogpost - Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox Washington Post article - The AI boom is so huge it's causing shortages everywhere else Business Insider article - Veteran investor Jeremy Grantham says AI is 'obviously a bubble' Ipsos survey - Google / Ipsos Multi-Country AI Survey 2026 Understanding AI Substack post - AI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong","meta_description":"This week, Jacob and Igor dissect the \"mythical AI bear,\" the strawman version of AI criticism that gets thrown around in tech discourse. Working through…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2591,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/muckraikers-7026051/episodes/the-mythical-ai-bear/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/muckraikers-7026051/the-mythical-ai-bear.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}