WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
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4.1 • 572 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Zöe is joined by WIRED’s Leah Feiger to run through five of the best stories you need to know about — from how AI is eliminating entry level jobs to how a secretive Democrat group is funding high-profile influencers. Then, Zöe and Leah dive into the scoop that AI researchers recently recruited to Meta’s Superintelligence Lab are already leaving — some of them, back to OpenAI.
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Articles mentioned in this episode:
- Researchers Are Already Leaving Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab | WIRED
- AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers | WIRED
- Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over App Store Rankings | WIRED
- A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers | WIRED
- What It’s Like Watching Dozens of Bodies Decompose (for Science)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Zoe. |
| 0:02.6 | Before we start, I want to share some exciting news with you. |
| 0:05.7 | We're doing a live show in San Francisco on September 9th in partnership with KQED. |
| 0:10.8 | Uncanny Valley co-hosts Lauren Good and Michael Colore |
| 0:13.4 | will sit down with our editor-in-chief, Katie Drummond, and a special guest for a conversation that you won't want to miss. |
| 0:19.7 | You can use the link in the show notes to grab |
| 0:21.2 | your ticket and invite a friend. We can't wait to see you there. Welcome to Wired's Uncanny Valley. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm Zoe Schiffer, director of business and industry. Today on the show, we're bringing you |
| 0:32.2 | five stories that you need to know about this week, including our exclusive scoop on how at least |
| 0:37.2 | three AI researchers |
| 0:38.5 | recently recruited by META's superintelligence labs have already decided to jump ship. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm joined today by our senior politics editor, Leah Feiger. |
| 0:47.4 | Leah, welcome. |
| 0:48.6 | Hey, Zoe. |
| 0:49.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:52.4 | So, Leah, our first story this week is about how AI is already starting to replace certain jobs. |
| 0:59.0 | And let me tell you, when I read this study, I instantly thought of you. |
| 1:03.4 | This is a study from Stanford University that our colleague Will Knight reported on. |
| 1:09.0 | And the study found the strongest evidence yet that AI is |
| 1:11.5 | starting to eliminate a slice of entry-level jobs, particularly in customer service and software |
| 1:16.5 | development. In those industries, they found a 16% decline in employment for workers aged 22 to 25. |
| 1:24.8 | I think the thing that really got me about this study and from Will's excellent write-up |
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