What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Down the Text-Scam Rabbit Hole
Slate Technology
Slate
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The scam du jour arrives via a text message, offering you a job. What happens when you accept?
Guest: Alex Sammon, Slate features writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's the truth about AI. |
| 0:02.0 | AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. |
| 0:05.0 | ServiceNow puts AI to work for people across your business, |
| 0:09.0 | removing friction and frustration for your employees, |
| 0:12.0 | supercharging productivity for your developers, |
| 0:15.0 | providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier. |
| 0:19.0 | All built into a single platform you can use right now. |
| 0:23.3 | That's why the world works with ServiceNow. |
| 0:26.5 | Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people. |
| 0:30.2 | All right, guys, let's head for the stadium and grab some high ground. |
| 0:33.3 | Copy that. |
| 0:34.0 | I'll drop near the checkpoint. |
| 0:35.1 | I'll take the building on the left. |
| 0:36.5 | And watch out for any teams going for the same spot. I'm in position. Whoa, that does not sound good. Play it down, play it down. |
| 0:46.6 | You need broadband that can keep up with your play. More gamers are choosing EE broadband, the UK's |
| 0:53.0 | fastest growing broadband provider. |
| 0:55.3 | Let's do this. |
| 0:56.3 | Search EEBroadband. |
| 0:57.9 | To verify I see EE.com.uk slash claims. |
| 1:05.2 | A few months ago, my slate colleague Alex Salmon got a text. |
| 1:09.4 | You've probably gotten something similar. I feel |
| 1:11.5 | like I get one of these a week. The random number job recruiter text. |
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