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“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcas... more

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This week, we talk about Google’s new plan to build data centers in space. Then, we’re joined by Dean Ball, a former adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ball worked on the Trump administration’s A.I. Action Plan, and h... more

This week, we’re joined by Bernt Bornich, chief executive of 1X. We talked with him about NEO, his company’s new humanoid robot, which has the internet buzzing. Then we meet NEO itself, and compare notes on the experience. Finally, we close the week ... more

This week, Character.AI announced that it would soon be taking its A.I. companions away from teens. We explain why this is a major development in the world of chatbots and child safety and how we expect other companies to respond. Then, Elon Musk has... more

Backlash to OpenAI’s video generation app Sora has reached a new tipping point. We discuss two big changes the company is making, after Bryan Cranston and the family of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. complained about deepfakes. Then, New York Ti... more

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Recent Guests

Bernt Bornich
CEO of 1X, the company that created NEO
1X
Episode: We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT
AJ Jacobs
Author and former mentor of Kevin Roose, known for immersive experiments.
The Puzzler podcast
Episode: Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
Karen Weise
New York Times reporter covering Amazon
The New York Times
Episode: Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser
Katie Notopoulos
Senior correspondent for Business Insider covering tech and culture, beloved internet troll.
Business Insider
Episode: ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop
Gary Greenberg
Psychotherapist and writer
Episode: Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
Jeremy Neufeld
Director of Immigration Policy at the Institute for Progress
Institute for Progress
Episode: The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
Eliezer Yudkowsky
a leading voice in the AI risk movement
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Episode: Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
D. Graham Burnett
Historian of science and technology at Princeton
Princeton University
Episode: A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
MacKenzie Price
Co-founder of Alpha School
Alpha Schools
Episode: A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education

Hosts

Kevin Roose
Tech columnist at The New York Times, specializing in the intersection of technology and culture.
Casey Newton
Editor of Platformer, focusing on technology, digital media, and accountability.

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 11.3k ratings
  • Just Unscribed From Hard Fork and Platformer

    This podcast finally hit the last straw for me. Kevin’s always been too much of a fan girl to qualify as a journalist anymore. But Casey sane washing Grokipedia because he has a nice long article on it is flat-out disgusting. Apparently he’s okay with Musk and other billionaires continuing to wreck the internet by drowning it in disinformation.

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    Sofa King Cynical
    United States16 days ago
  • Here for the content, suffering through the cringy banter.

    Please, please, please cut out the chummy back and forth, the chortling responses and the oversized laughter . It’s unbearable. No one on this show is actually funny nor is that the point. Please stop trying to make this entertaining.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Prlperr
    United States21 days ago
  • AI boosterism

    I’ve listened to every episode of Hard Fork for the best part of two years now. At first it was a great way to get up to speed with the latest developments in AI and the tech world more generally. This was especially true back in 2023 when mainstream journalism did not offer good insights into the way the AI world was changing at such a fast pace.

    But increasingly the tone and content of episodes feels so captivated with AI hype that I have lost interest in the show.

    A few weeks back there ... more

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    m@xl@ng
    United Kingdoma month ago
  • Fun, not much insight

    The hosts don’t go deep enough, have no technical/business backgrounds, and don’t represent the general populace. I know because who really thought people would stop googling to find info or website? So no insight besides what is in the SF tech bubble. Maybe that’s the point so tech junkies should look elsewhere.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    FunkyWeb
    United Statesa month ago
  • Informative and fun

    Great content presented with a fun spin. Smart and engaging conversations about AI, chips to train AI, the dangers of AI, the benefits of AI… ok it’s mostly all about AI, but I guess that’s the world we live in now.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    TobiasShaw
    United Statesa month ago

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Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
Q: What takeaway do you have about the potential for regulation of AI?
We need more transparency and are suggesting that regulations focus on what AI-generated content is and its impact.
Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
Q: What emotional responses did you have upon completing the 48-hour challenge?
I felt a mix of relief, annoyance, and terror at how omnipresent AI is in our lives.
Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
Q: How did you redefine what counts as AI for this experiment?
I decided to include all forms of AI and machine learning, as they both represent significant aspects of modern technology.
Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
Q: What was the reason behind your decision to go 48 hours without AI?
To see how intertwined AI is in daily life and to explore both its potential and risks.
The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
Q: What was the inspiration behind the recent TikTok rapture trend?
It stemmed from a TikTok user claiming to have received a message from Jesus about the rapture happening on September 23rd or 24th.

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