It was back in April that Walmart announced it was doubling down on robots in its stores to scan shelves and scrub floors hoping to keep labor costs down and open up employees to more fulfilling work.  Well, the roll-out has happened and the results are… mixed.  The human workers are sometimes the ones that feel like machines.  Customers have reportedly fallen asleep on one of the machines, workers have to retrain the machines in some cases, and engineers have had to figure out creative ways to have robots announce themselves to customers so they aren’t caught off guard. Drew Harwell, AI reporter for the Washington Post, joins us for how the robots are doing at Walmart.

Next, YouTube has stepped into the hate speech minefield. Earlier this week they announced three changes aimed at limiting the posting and spreading of hate speech content.  Unfortunately for YouTube, the long planned announcement came during an uproar over enforcement of its policies surrounding conservative host Steven Crowder and homophobic and racist insults he made against Vox’s Carlos Maza.  Ina Fried, chief tech correspondent at Axios, joins us for YouTube’s new policies.

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