Behind the screens: What it’s like to interview an AI news agent
Marketplace Tech

Behind the screens: What it’s like to interview an AI news agent

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202612 min
  • Interview
  • Technology

At Alaska News, you can find stories about the new summer sales tax rate in Juneau, a man ticketed for killing a bull moose out of season and about 20 other hyperlocal items a day. Much of the coverage is generated by an AI agent called Walter, as in Cronkite, the famous newsman. Nathaniel Herz, a human executive editor at the local alt weekly the Anchorage Press, wanted to learn more. So, he asked for an interview. More on this: This AI agent has written thousands of Alaska...

Play episode

Opens the player: the full transcript, every word clickable, with translation and flashcards.

Try it: tap any word

Real sentences from the start of this episode. Every word is marked with its level.

Sentence 1 of 12 · 0:00

, .

Money decides what future becomes possible.

Hear this sentence

Tap a word to see its meaning in your language.

Do you know these words?

8 harder words from this episode. Tap one to see what it means, then mark it.

  • B21:47
  • C12:04
  • C14:16
  • B27:06
  • B29:06
  • B210:04
  • B211:46
  • C115:08

Mark a few words and we'll tell you how this episode fits your level.

Is this episode right for you?

B2

B2 · Upper-intermediate

Comfortable if you already follow TV news

A1 25%A2 33%B1 18%B2 22%C1 2%
  • 76% of the words are B1 or easier.
  • 190 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
  • 81 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.

Transcript

The opening of the episode. The whole transcript is in the player.

0:00

Money ultimately decides what gets built, what survives. Money decides what future becomes possible. So change where money goes and who controls it, then you change what becomes possible.

0:11

That's Trinity Tran, Ted Fellow and co-founder of the California Public Banking Alliance and Public Bank LA. A public bank is owned by the people through their local government.

0:21

And Trinity's spent nearly a decade pushing to make that a reality, from getting LA to pull its money out of a large-scale private bank

That was the opening. The rest of the episode (12 min) is in the player: every word clickable, with translation, saved words and flashcards.

Continue in the player

Automatically generated from the audio. May contain errors. Audio belongs to its publisher and is played from their feed. Rights holders can request removal — copyright & takedown policy