CrowdScience

BBC World Service

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CrowdScience

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CrowdScience

Mar 27, 2026
26½ minutes
24 MB

CrowdScience listener Po wants to know whether AI could one day replace all human jobs. And while he requests that CrowdScience continues to be hosted by people, it made presenters Caroline Steel and Anand Jagatia wonder – could an AI really present this show? To find out more about how AI models work and what they’re capable of, Caroline Steel speaks to AI journalist Alex Hern from The Economist. She creates an AI version of herself with Nicky Birch, Innovation Lead for the BBC’s generative AI program, and hears how the BBC is attempting to navigate the et...

CrowdScience

Could AI present CrowdScience?

BBC World Service

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