AI Agents Gone Wild
WSJ Tech News Briefing

AI Agents Gone Wild

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202620 min
  • Technology

While more stories of AI agents going rogue surface nearly every day, the messaging urging consumers to use AI agents to make life and work easier is not dying down. And this is all happening amidst a conversation about AI doom. How do we make sense of it all? Deputy tech and media editor Sam Schechner, cybersecurity reporter Bob McMillan and personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen hash it out. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...

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

.

Every business has a there.

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.

  • B21:59
  • B24:02
  • C16:09
  • B210:04
  • C112:30
  • B213:24
  • C116:37
  • B219:09

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 28%A2 38%B1 16%B2 16%C1 1%
  • 83% of the words are B1 or easier.
  • 168 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
  • 91 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.

Transcript

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

0:00

This podcast is brought to you by HPE. Every business has a there. Automation, transformation, scale, maybe all of the above. The HPE self-driving network gets you there

0:12

with a network that's self-optimizing, self-healing, and self-protecting, and only continues to get smarter. Whether you run it or rely on it,

0:22

it's a network that gets you there. Learn more about this self-driving network at hpe.com slash networking. Hey, listeners!

That was the opening. The rest of the episode (20 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