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AI researcher Zoe Hitzig quit her job at OpenAI this week over “deep reservations” about the company’s strategy, including their decision to pilot running ads on ChatGPT. In a rare interview, she gives her reasons for leaving the industry - a world with access to "an unprecedented archive of human candour". Meanwhile, another AI researcher, this time at Anthropic, also quit with a the stark warning that "the world is in peril". They just the latest in a series of high profile resignations. So what's going on - and what are the big fears for a world increasingly dominated by AI?

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Guests:
Zoe Hitzig, former AI researcher at OpenAI.
Mark Sellman,Technology Correspondent for the Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
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Read more: ‘The world is in peril’: AI researchers quit with public warnings
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Danny Finkelstein's mother survived Bergen-Belsen. When far-right activist Nick Fuentes began spreading antisemitic, pro-Hitler ideas, our writer challenged him. He wasn’t ready for the onslaught that ensued.

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Ready by: Danny Finkelstein, Times columnist, author and Conservative peer.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
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Read more: Daniel Finkelstein: How the world’s antisemites turned on me
Clips: TalkTV, CBS.
Photo: Tom Jackson for The Times Magazine.
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It’s almost six weeks since America launched military strikes against Venezuela and captured its President over claims the country was flooding the US with drugs and migrants. But was this ever actually the intention, or is Trump more interested in syphoning off the country’s oil? Why is the old regime still in power – and what is life like for locals?

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Guest:  Stephen Gibbs, contributor, Latin America and the Caribbean, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Olivia Case and Harry Stott.
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Read more: Ally of Venezuela’s opposition leader ‘kidnapped’ hours after being freed
Further listening: Prince William walks a tightrope in Saudi Arabia
Clips: The White House / X, BBC, NBC, CNBC, CBS / 60 Minutes, Sky News Australia.
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It’s been almost a fortnight since the release of the Epstein files, and since then we’ve learned a lot about the disgraced financier’s connections to the rich and powerful. But what more have we learned about Jeffrey Epstein himself? Was he a foreign spy? And what do the files tell us about how the world is really run?

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Guest: Josie Ensor, chief US reporter, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Micaela Arneson, Olivia Case.
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Read more: Epstein’s victims: my six-year search for the truth
Further listening: Mandelson, Epstein and the fight for survival at No 10
Clips: Sky, AP, TalkTV, ABC News Australia, ITV, LBC, New York Post, CSPAN, House Oversight Committee.
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The Office for National Statistics has said that by 2029 it expects more deaths than births in Britain. Simultaneously migration could go into reverse soon, with more people leaving our shores than arriving. But how will a shrinking - and ageing - population affect our politics, our economy and our lives?
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Guest: Tom Calver, Data Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Olivia Case.
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Read more: Could Britain’s population actually start shrinking soon?
Further listening: Britain is in a cancer crisis. Will a new strategy fix it?
Clips: Sky, ITN, BBC.
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