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The Media Show: Meet the 'meat proxies'

What happens when people become 鈥渕eat proxies鈥 for AI? Also on the show, Lyse Doucet on reporting from Afghanistan under the Taliban

鈥淢eat proxy鈥 is a new term coined to describe someone who acts as a human conduit for material generated by AI. Software engineer Niklas Gruhn, who came up with the phrase, joins Will Oremus, staff writer at The Atlantic and Fortune鈥檚 executive editorial director Diane Brady, to discuss how much AI is being used in journalism and when readers should be told about it.

Five years after US troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban returned to power, Lyse Doucet has been back in the country, including visiting one of the secret schools set up for girls. 麻豆社 News鈥 Chief International Correspondent discusses what it takes to report from Afghanistan now, the restrictions she encountered and the difficult decisions involved in protecting contributors.

Presenter: Ros Atkins
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Content producer: Lucy Wai
Junior production co-ordinator apprentice: Cameron Taylor
Technical co-ordinator: Christopher Brown
Sound engineer: Michael Campbell

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