{"id":225095,"date":"2026-01-07T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225095\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:22:07","slug":"the-take-is-ai-headed-for-a-breaking-point-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225095\/","title":{"rendered":"The Take: Is AI headed for a breaking point? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PodcastPodcast,  The Take<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">From surveillance, job losses and resistance movements, what the next phase of AI could mean in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 7 Jan 20267 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is moving fast: from chatbots to autonomous systems and physical machines. As investment surges, so do concerns about job losses, surveillance, warfare and whether the boom can last. We take a look at where AI is headed in 2026 and the growing resistance against unchecked technological power.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode:<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list<br \/>\nBrian Merchant (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bcmerchant?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">@bcmerchant<\/a>), writer of Blood in the Machine newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Episode credits:<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker and Chloe K Li, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Fatima Shafiq, and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz.<\/p>\n<p>Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Andrew Greiner is our lead of audience engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with us:<\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwjZkiFu6LhzsLUKFkYO60I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PodcastPodcast, The Take From surveillance, job losses and resistance movements, what the next phase of AI could mean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,43,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-225095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}