{"podcast":{"title":"The Tech Policy Press Podcast","slug":"the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134","podcast_index_feed_id":1378134,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/techpolicypress/","website_url":"https://techpolicy.press","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/13a4e094-bfb8-4b58-b59d-02b8f292a6f2/BgtfDWriiMrD_96Bs7jeTwKM.png","author":"Tech Policy Press","episode_count":300,"summary":"Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. You can find us at https://techpolicy.press/, where you can join the newsletter.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134"},"episode":{"title":"How to Study the Phenomenon of Tech Hype","slug":"how-to-study-the-phenomenon-of-tech-hype","published_at":"2026-03-29T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/how-to-study-the-phenomenon-of-tech-hype","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134","url":"https://techpolicy.press/how-to-study-the-phenomenon-of-tech-hype","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/07535ed9-59a7-45c5-859d-86903c6cff63.mp3","summary":"AI hype is everywhere, and the CEOs of many tech firms are promising that the tech will soon eclipse human intelligence. The trillions in investment towards this goal and the massive deployment of capital and the human and natural resources it purchases both requires this kind of hype and causes it to compound. Today’s guests are studying this phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, building out a line of inquiry they call \" Hype Studies .\" It's the subject of an occasional series of contributions to Tech Policy Press. Guests include: Jascha Bareis , a postdoctoral political scientist at the University of Fribourg; Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves , a sociologist of design and technology pursuing a PhD at the Tecnopolítica unit of the Open University of Catalonia; Marché Arends , a South African independent investigative journalist.","meta_description":"AI hype is everywhere, and the CEOs of many tech firms are promising that the tech will soon eclipse human intelligence. The trillions in investment towar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2735,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/episodes/how-to-study-the-phenomenon-of-tech-hype/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/how-to-study-the-phenomenon-of-tech-hype.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}