The 2023 Spotify Wrapped was released last week, and alongside it, a collection of data from Spotify’s users has become available on the internet. As part of the collected information, the most streamed podcasts and their respective most listened-to episodes become valuable instruments to track trends and notorious topics across the web.
As pointed out in the article “The Trends of 2023 as Told by Podcasts,” one of the most talked-about topics of the year was the expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry and the future implications of this process. The Fresh Air podcast was quite successful with the episode “Could Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?” which expands on the consequences of technological innovations in the AI market and possible outcomes in a near future.