AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?

Podcast: Channels with Peter Kafka · Vox Media Podcast Network

Opublikowano: 2026-09-16

AI companies have spent years telling us that we’ll be able to use them to go shopping for us, or book us airplane tickets, or get us awesome restaurant reservations. None of that ever materialized. But in the last few weeks, services like Instinct and Meta’s Muse have made that promise feel much less theoretical. Are they actually ready? What’s holding them back? And, crucially: Do we even want them doing this stuff for us? My pal Jason Del Rey, a longtime journalist who now writes The Aisle newsletter, spends all his time le...