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Situation reporter: Evan Gershkovich’s detention

Economist Podcasts

The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.


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1:11.2

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

1:14.6

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

1:17.0

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

1:25.1

As with any bureaucratic funding scheme, there is some fraud in America's social welfare programs.

1:31.3

We talk through how hard it is to curb those abuses in a way that doesn't come at a cost to needy, hungry families.

1:38.3

And you've probably heard about chat GPT, a powerful bit of artificial intelligence that can hold conversations,

1:47.5

write essays, even craft recipes.

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