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A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)

8 min Click here to listen to this article — Coyotec, an AI co-host on Los Angeles' José FM …

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