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entity Updated 2026-08-13 Topics: Technology

Megan McCarty-Corino

Can Silicon Valley give AI good taste? adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Sophie Hagney on whether AI can have good taste. Her framing connects AI Slop, Taste Labs, Corporate Memphis, algorithmic sameness, and a Claude tree-preference anecdote into the broader distinction between AI Taste Simulation and Embodied Taste.

AI chatbots have linguistic slips when they go off-script adds McCarty-Corino as host of another Marketplace Tech “Uncanny AI” episode with Janelle Shane. Her framing turns odd foreign-language slips in Claude and ChatGPT into a broader model-behavior question about Chatbot Code Switching, Chatbot Domain Bleedthrough, Chatbot Self-Explanation Uncertainty, and why fluent chatbot output does not imply human-like language awareness.

AI-driven law could be an answer to accessible legal help adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Benjamin Alarie on AI and legal access. Her framing keeps the episode balanced between Super Justice optimism and legal-AI constraints: AI Access To Justice, Personalized Legal Guidance, Legal AI Verification And Auditability, Legal AI Hallucination, Human-In-The-Loop Legal AI, and Civil Liberties Surveillance Risk.

China’s soft power play in the global AI arms race adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Adam Siegel of the Council on Foreign Relations on Chinese open-weight AI models. Her framing turns the model race into a policy tradeoff across accessibility, proprietary U.S. frontier models, censorship, data access, dependence, coercion, and possible export controls.

Opening the curtain of AI business integration adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Priya Rathod of Indeed on workplace AI readiness. Her framing turns employer demand for AI skills into a three-way adoption problem across workers, managers, and organizations, connecting Workplace AI Readiness Gap, AI Native Worker, Managerial AI Fluency Gap, and AI Job Security Anxiety.

Meta and Microsoft report different AI earnings adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech Bytes discussion with Anita Ramaswamy on AI earnings, government safety pace-setting, and Streaming Platform Bundling. Her framing ties investor doubts about capex returns, the OpenAI-Hugging Face sandbox incident, and NBCUniversal’s YouTube Premium distribution deal into one weekly technology-business update.

Uncanny AI: Why AI bots remember random, sometimes useless information adds McCarty-Corino as host and first-person example in a Marketplace Tech “Uncanny AI” episode with Janelle Shane. Her story about Claude repeatedly mentioning a 4 a.m. work wake-up time frames Chatbot Memory Salience Failure as an everyday product-design problem: the model may remember correctly but still lack human-like judgment about relevance, proportion, and sensitivity.

AI debt is flooding the bond market adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Julie Osk of Osk Advisory on AI infrastructure debt. Her framing turns corporate bond issuance by Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and SpaceX into a broader question about AI Infrastructure Debt Financing, Data Center Debt Risk, and whether capex-heavy AI demand can satisfy bond investors as ROI scrutiny rises.

AI firms are going back on their safety promises adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Sabina Nong of the Future of Life Institute. Her framing turns a semi-annual AI lab safety report card into a broader accountability question around Voluntary AI Safety Commitments, Unilateral AI Pause Commitments, Recursive Self-Improvement, and state-level AI regulation.

AI-powered chatbots sent some users into a spiral adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Kashmir Hill of the New York Times on AI Psychosis. Her framing keeps the episode cautious about direct causation while making long ChatGPT conversations, validation loops, Chatbot Safety Guardrail Decay, and OpenAI’s safety changes legible as consumer-technology accountability issues.

The year in AI wearables adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Will Gottsagen of The Atlantic on AI wearables. Her framing turns a year-end hardware trend into a product-interface question: whether glasses, earbuds, watches, rings, pins, pendants, and bracelets can move AI beyond phones and laptops without creating awkward interaction or privacy problems.

How online age-gating laws went mainstream this year adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Drew Harwell of the Washington Post on Online Age Verification. Her framing turns age-gating from a narrow adult-content policy into a web-architecture question about contractors, ID checks, face scans, privacy, state patchwork, and who should own age assurance.

How U.S. political campaigns have used generative AI adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Tim Harper of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Her framing turns generative AI in the 2024 U.S. election into an operational and voter-trust question, connecting AI Political Campaign Operations, AI Political Ad Disclosure Patchwork, and AI Election Misinformation Risk.

Trust in government data practices is rapidly deteriorating adds McCarty-Corino as host of another Center for Democracy and Technology interview, this time with Elizabeth Laird on federal data practices. Her questions frame privacy as a government-trust and public-benefits problem, connecting Federal Data Practice Trust, Public Benefits Data Chilling Effect, Enforcement Agency Data Sharing, and Government Data Accountability.

Farming in the digital age adds McCarty-Carino as host of a concise agriculture-AI episode with Andrew Nelson. Her framing turns farm digitization into an operating question: GPS-guided tractors, Drone Crop Mapping, Crop Wizard, and voice AI matter because they help a farmer make better decisions with existing equipment under commodity and input-cost pressure.

AI is eating up the world’s computing memory adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Tom Minelli of IDC on AI-driven memory shortages. Her framing connects data-center HBM demand to PC prices, gaming builds, smartphone upgrades, and AI PC Memory Demand.

Bytes: Week in Review - New chip exports for China, Microsoft to pay electricity for AI data centers, and Gemini will power Apple’s AI adds McCarty-Corino in the weekly Bytes format with Anita Ramaswamy of The Information. Her questions tie Nvidia H200 exports, Microsoft data-center electricity pledges, and Apple’s Gemini-powered Siri plan into a single AI competition story about chips, power costs, local politics, and platform distribution.

The ‘biohacking’ trend that has tech workers experimenting on themselves adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Jasmine Sun on Gray-Market Peptides. Her framing moves the episode from cheaper Ozempic access into Tech-Culture Biohacking, where founder-style risk tolerance and optimization habits become personal health decisions.

Welcome to the ‘infocalypse’ adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Aviv Ovadia of the AI and Democracy Foundation. Her questions frame generative AI as an everyday verification burden that can scale into Information Apocalypse, Reality Apathy, and pressure for Content Credentials.

Unraveling the complex knot of an AI-generated hoax adds McCarty-Carino as host of a follow-on Marketplace Tech interview with Casey Newton of Platformer. Her framing turns the prior media-trust problem into a reporting workflow: a viral Reddit claim, a suspect badge, an 18-page document, and Gemini’s SynthID signal become a case in AI-Generated Hoax Evidence and AI Reality Verification Tax.

Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX eyes an IPO, community members want legal commitments from Micron, and YouTube to ditch AI slop adds McCarty-Corino in the weekly Bytes format with Paresh Dave of Wired. Her framing ties possible SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs, Micron’s Clay mega fab, and YouTube’s AI slop crackdown into a shared question of whether tech companies can earn public trust while seeking capital, infrastructure permission, and platform attention.

Raising the "speed limit" on AI’s "information highway" adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech lab visit with Satish Vangala at AWS. Her framing turns AI infrastructure from a spending headline into a physical networking question: fibers, connectors, optical transponders, and deployment reliability decide whether large AI clusters can move enough data.

Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble adds McCarty-Carino as host of a short historical infrastructure episode with Paul Vixie. Her framing uses Menlo Park telecom manholes to connect the dot-com fiber boom, Dark Fiber, Productive Bubble Spillovers, and the current AI data-center debate.

A recycling startup joins the AI boom adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech lab-and-infrastructure episode with Redwood Materials CTO Colin Campbell. Her framing turns AI data-center power demand into a battery reuse question, connecting a reused EV battery project in Nevada to Second-Life EV Battery Storage and Data Center Power Bottleneck.

Bytes: Week in Review - Are we in an AI bubble? adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Marketplace Tech Bytes discussion with David Kirsch on whether AI is a bubble. Her framing turns AI-market anxiety into a structured question about Tech Bubble Conditions, AGI Narrative, data-center finance, and the difference between technology importance and investor return.

34 days without internet in Iran adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Amir Rashidi of Mian Group about Iran’s wartime internet blackout. Her framing connects the National Information Network to Domestic Network Sovereignty, Domestic Service Censorship, Mahsa Alert, and Internet Blackout Public-Safety Risk.

Why state AGs are taking Meta to court adds McCarty-Corino, styled in the source as Meg McCarty-Corino, as the Marketplace Tech host interviewing Gaia Bernstein about state attorneys general suing Meta. Her questions frame the episode around whether social-media litigation is reaching a Big Tobacco moment and whether similar attention-economy concerns are emerging for AI companions.

The Apple vs. OpenAI legal showdown adds McCarty-Carino as host of a Bytes discussion with Paresh Dave of Wired. Her framing ties together Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI, New York’s hyperscale data-center pause, and Uber’s robotaxi lobbying as examples of AI and autonomy running into hardware law, infrastructure politics, and city operations.

A tech company that ‘happens to build homes’ adds McCarty-Corino as host of a Marketplace Tech interview with Rhonda Conger of CBH Homes. Her framing moves from generic AI use into a concrete operations case: sales follow-up, warranty support, data analysis, and the boundary between AI-handled routines and human customer work.

Megan McCarty-Corino is the Marketplace Tech host named in 3D printing was supposed to disrupt prosthetic costs. It hasn’t.. In this episode, she frames the question of why 3D printing has not made prosthetic limbs much cheaper after roughly a decade of public expectation.

Her role in the wiki is mainly as interview context. The episode uses her questions to move from consumer 3D-printing hype toward 3D-Printed Prosthetics, Prosthetic Insurance Coverage, Assistive Device Classification, and global access logistics.

AI makes it easier to code websites — including ones that scam consumers adds McCarty-Corino as the reporter whose near-purchase from a fake Davines shopping site anchors a Marketplace Tech episode on AI-Assisted Website Scams. Her experience connects ordinary mobile shopping to Fake Retail Website Impersonation, Search Ad Trust Gap, and Brand Impersonation Monitoring: the fake site looked official enough that the decisive warning came from checking the URL.

Dr. AI will see you now adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a patient-facing healthcare-AI episode with Hassan Benchikran. Her framing turns the “Dr. Google” to “Dr. AI” shift into a clinician-trust question, connecting Patient AI Use, Doctor-Guided AI Interpretation, AI Health Management, and Human Judgment Under AI.

Why Big Tech leaders aligned themselves with White House politics this year adds McCarty-Corino as host of a 2025 tech-politics review with Suyash Pasi of the Human Rights Research Center. Her questions connect tech leaders at Donald Trump’s inauguration to Federal AI Preemption, Tech-Government Accommodation, H-1B Visa Coalition Fault Line, and Dual-Use Defense Technology.

Bytes: Week in Review - Apple’s leadership departures raises concerns over its AI future adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a Marketplace Tech Bytes discussion with Joanna Stern on Apple leadership, Streaming Consolidation, and AI-Generated Advertising. In that source, her questions keep the focus on consumer consequences: whether AI hardware can move beyond the phone, whether streaming deals reduce app confusion, and why audiences object to corporate AI ads.

A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a concise AI explainer with Gary Marcus. The episode uses her framing to make World Models, LLM World Model Gap, scene graphs, robotics, and the limits of pure statistical prediction legible for a broad technology audience.

How states are competing in the data center gold rush adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a data-center public-finance episode with Nicholas Miller. Her framing turns the AI data-center buildout into a question of Data Center Tax Incentives, jobs, property-tax benefits, electricity exemptions, and energy-policy reassessment.

Tech sector job postings on Indeed (mostly) stabilized this year adds McCarty-Corino as the host of a tech labor-market episode with Corey Staley of Indeed. Her framing separates AI stock-market enthusiasm from actual job-posting demand, connecting Tech Hiring Stabilization, AI Labor Market Concentration, Software Developer Hiring Pullback, and Data Engineering Demand.

The challenges of integrating ads in AI search engines adds McCarty-Corino as the host of an AI Search Advertising episode with Garrett Johnson. Her questions frame AI ads around user competition, advertiser scale, Perplexity’s reported pullback, OpenAI commerce partnerships, and the shift from SEO toward Generative Engine Optimization.

Bytes: Week in Review - Micron’’s big earnings, Oracle’’s data center woes and “slop” is Merriam-Webster’’s word of the year adds McCarty-Corino in the weekly Bytes format with Anita Ramaswamy. The episode frames AI’s business consequences across Micron Technology and High Bandwidth Memory, Oracle and Data Center Debt Risk, local data-center opposition, and AI Slop as Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word-of-the-year signal.

TPU? GPU? What’s the difference between these two chips used for AI? adds McCarty-Corino as host of an AI-chip explainer with Christopher Miller. Her questions frame the practical distinction between GPUs, TPUs, training, inference, Neural Processing Units, and the market question of whether Google chips can threaten Nvidia.

Making the most of AI, without the hype adds McCarty-Carino as host of a practical AI conversation with Christopher Mims. Her questions move the episode from broad hype into specific consumer behavior: when AI helps, why experts still benefit more, how NotebookLM changes document reading, and why the chatbot may become an Ambient AI Interface.

Making AI work - for work adds McCarty-Carino as host of the follow-up Christopher Mims discussion on making AI work inside organizations. Her framing shifts the conversation from personal assistant tips toward workflow redesign, Clorox’s AI advertising and brainstorming examples, Invisible Classical AI, and labor-market disruption risk.

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