{"podcast":{"title":"The World Unspun","slug":"the-world-unspun-7081864","podcast_index_feed_id":7081864,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-world-unspun/feed.xml","website_url":"https://newint.org/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/the-world-unspun/20241106_121109_e584d048dc6625382888438ae18dcd4a.png","author":"New Internationalist","episode_count":32,"summary":"New Internationalist's award-winning, in-depth journalism, now in a podcast! Nominated for the Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year 2025.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-unspun-7081864"},"episode":{"title":"AI and its discontents, with Decca Muldowney","slug":"ai-and-its-discontents-with-decca-muldowney","published_at":"2026-03-10T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-unspun-7081864/ai-and-its-discontents-with-decca-muldowney","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-unspun-7081864","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/the-world-unspun/2606106","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/295341/2606106/the-world-unspun/2026_03_10_10_28_19_0d23b502-3449-426a-8dc3-d6e0d4007fb9.mp3","summary":"This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . Despite its documented dangers, algorithmic biases and dire environmental consequences, AI is being pushed into every corner of our lives. But who benefits from framing it this way – and at what cost? For our latest issue, co-editor Decca Muldowney takes an in-depth look at the people behind the AI hype machine. Further reading from our issue AI: The People Behind the Machine : AI and its discontents (Decca Muldowney) 'Pennsylvania is perfect' (Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo) The myth of inevitability (Paula Lacey) The kill chain (Chris Cole) The janitors of the internet (Adio-Adet Dinika) Approaching infinity (Rémy Ngamije) Subscribe to New Internationalist magazine to read the full archive of Letter From columns, dating back to 1973. Use the code THEWORLDUNSPUN for 20% off your first year of a print and/or digital subscription.","meta_description":"This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . Despite its documented dangers, algorithmic biases and dire environmental consequences, AI is being pu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1555,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-world-unspun-7081864/episodes/ai-and-its-discontents-with-decca-muldowney/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-unspun-7081864/ai-and-its-discontents-with-decca-muldowney.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}