IM 870: Meet Me In Alaska - Are AI Content Filters Changing What We Read?

British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

• Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook • Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19 • Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw • Students boo AI at commencement: video • Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying' • (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X • NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA • Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears • Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI • Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push • VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. • Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of • Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online • Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year • Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools • The new Wild West of AI kids' toys • Internet Archive Switzerland • Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google • Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out. • The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre • AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies • Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models' • Hallucinopedia • Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996' • Sand shortage

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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