Below you will find the latest upcoming program updates for the week ahead. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.
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News
Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
- Kai talks to FTC Chair Lina Khan about the FTC’s role in the consumer economy and how the agency is thinking about the expanding AI footprint.
- Kai talks with Riel Johnson and Johnnie Stevenson at Athens Services Materials Recovery Center in Southern California—one of the largest (and most technologically advanced) recycling centers in the country.
Marketplace Morning Report
- David Brancaccio will speak to senior economics contributor Chris Farrell about a new study looking at how using AI in the workplace can boost productivity.
Marketplace Tech
- May 2: It seems like every month there’s another big layoff announcement from the U.S. tech industry. Those job cuts came after a pandemic-induced hiring spree for many companies. Now with many American firms letting some of their workers go, they’re looking across the border to help fill the gaps. We look at a new kind of tech boom in Mexico.
- May 3: Tech internships are hard to get. What are the pathways to get more underrepresented folks into tech? Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Ruthe Farmer, founder of Last Mile Foundation, about the obstacles non-Ivy league students face when trying to land an tech internship.
On Point
- May 1: Nearly 30,000 experts in the computing and AI world have signed an open letter calling for a pause on AI development. They say we need shared safety protocols and regulation before unleashing increasingly more advanced AI systems, with “potentially catastrophic effects on society.” We’ll explore how to ensure safe AI and what our future with AI might look like with the letter’s leading signatories.
- May 2: We look into the Biden administration’s plans to overhaul the US organ transplant system. Since it was created nearly forty years ago, the system has effectively been a monopoly, managed by the same non-profit organization, criticized for its waitlist for transplants and handling of organs. The administration wants to inject competition into the system and more than double its budget.
- May 4: There are now more states governed by one party than at any other time since 1992. And there’s growing evidence that such consolidated power is not good for democracy. We focus on one state, Tennessee, where the Republican super majority in the state legislature stands accused of ruling by retaliation.
Arts and Culture
The Splendid Table
Evan Kleiman has never been a big self-promoter, but she has had one of the most influential careers in American food. First as a groundbreaking chef in Los Angeles with her Italian restaurant Angeli Caffe, and then by conducting thousands of interviews as the host of Good Food from KCRW. It’s one of our favorite food shows so this week, we’re spending the hour talking to her about her life and all the places food has taken her.
Performance Today
- ROCO performs a piece by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at Rice University in Houston
- The Imani Winds perform at University of Georgia Performing Arts Center in Athens, GA
- Georgian Chamber Players perform Mark Gresham’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in Atlanta
- Nashville Symphony performs Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center
- Clayton Stephenson performs Liszt at last year’s Van Cliburn competition
- The Escher Quartet performs George Walker’s Lyric for Strings at Interlochen
APM special of the week
May Mental Health Minutes
Air Window: May 1 – May 31, 2023
Observe May Mental Health Month with 7-days of Mental Health Minutes from Call to Mind. More than just health facts, we bring you 1-minute modules of mental health learnings, information and insight to foster new conversations about mental health.
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