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Today, Explained

Let AI replace you

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 31 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

Support for the show comes from Snapdragon.

0:03.0

Take charge of your day with a PC that can keep up with you.

0:06.0

With PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite processors, you get up to 22 hours of battery life so you can be productive on your terms.

0:15.0

Whether that's during coffee shop marathons, airport layovers, or wherever life takes you. It's the performance you deserve

0:22.6

for your busy life. Break free from power outlets with a PC powered by Snapdragon X Elite. Learn more

0:30.2

at Snapdragon.com slash laptops. Battery life varies significantly based on device, settings, usage,

0:36.8

and other factors.

0:40.4

If you're tired of database limitations and architectures that break when you scale,

0:45.7

then it's time to think outside rows and columns.

0:48.8

MongoDB is the database built for developers, by developers.

0:52.8

It's acid-compliant, enterprise-ready, and fluent in AI.

0:56.7

That's why so many of the Fortune 500 trust MongoDB with their most critical workloads.

1:02.7

Ready to think outside rows and columns?

1:05.2

Start building faster at MongoDB.com slash build.

1:14.0

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

1:20.8

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

1:24.1

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

1:33.3

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

1:40.3

I thought it was going to look like the Jetsons.

1:42.3

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

1:51.0

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

1:59.0

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

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