Jason Palmer
speaker
3,896 appearances
104 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Jason Palmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 104 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 32.
Appearances
Our senior creative producer is William Warren, and our senior development producer is Rory Galloway.
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Our producer is Anne Hanna, and assistant producer Kunal Patel, with extra production help this week from Emily Elias and Eleanor Sly.
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We'll all see you back here tomorrow for The Weekend Intelligence.
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This week, we head to Japan.
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We talk all the time on the show about the country's demographics, an aging population and shrinking families.
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What that means at the end of life is more people with fewer social ties.
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There's a job called special cleaner that barely existed a generation ago and is now booming, clearing the houses of those who die alone.
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My colleague Moeka Iida looks at the growing phenomenon of lonely deaths, how demographic change is reshaping elderly care, and the new ways people are finding friendship and community at the end of life.
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See you there.
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The Economist.
Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
Today on the show, the surge of sexually transmitted infections in Europe and a tribute to Ezra Pound's translator daughter.
First up though.
It's kind of amazing that a computer program from the nineteen sixties still has such influence in what we talk about now, still in the dawn of the generative AI era.
Eliza was, in essence, the first chatbot, the brainchild of a computer scientist at MIT in nineteen sixty six.
In today's terms, it was primitive, all list referencing and pattern matching and bouncing users' statements back, rephrased as questions.
The weird part was how those users often had the conviction they were typing to a machine that was thinking, conscious even.
Since then it's been called the Eliza Effect, a reminder that humans are still kinda bad at determining what is conscious and what consciousness is.
Alec Jaw is the economist's science and technology editor and hosts Babbage, our sister show on science.
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