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Explain It to Me

Let AI replace you

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.47.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

If AI handles all our busy work and optimizes our resources, it may also give us the one thing there never seems to be enough of: time. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jenny Lawton, fact-checked by Melissa Hirsch, engineered by David Tatasciore, and hosted by Jonquilyn Hill. Photo by Simona Granati - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.  This story was supported by a grant from Arnold Ventures. Vox had full discretion over the content of this reporting. If you have a question, give us a call on 1-800-618-8545 or send us a note here.  Listen to Explain It to Me ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:06.0

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0:15.0

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0:23.9

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0:29.0

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0:32.5

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0:37.8

Battery life varies significantly based on device, settings, usage, and other factors.

0:55.0

Right now is the AI Gold Rush. And that means everybody who builds an app, a platform, a piece of software, a gizmo, that somebody, anything. Everybody is trying to put AI everywhere.

0:59.9

And for two weeks, in a series on the Vergecast, we are talking through what that looks like.

1:03.6

We're talking to developers about what they're building and how they're building it.

1:08.9

And whether AI actually does make sense everywhere, or is just going to ruin everything in the process.

1:13.2

That's the AI miniseries on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts.

1:17.1

This series is presented by MongoDB.

1:26.9

It has taken a job that would take months to do, and it can basically do it in an hour.

1:29.9

And I said, we've got to get food delivered by a robot.

1:34.2

My name is Jake, but perhaps better known as Rizbot. It's nice to meet you.

1:39.9

When you were a kid, did you daydream about the future?

1:47.0

I thought it was going to look like the Jetsons.

1:49.0

Flying cars, video phones, robots to do our grocery shopping.

1:57.0

Well, we're still waiting on those flying cars, but video phones are here, and so are the robots.

2:04.6

In Austin, Texas, they're sort of everywhere rolling down the sidewalk on their way to deliver food.

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