Hard Fork
Episodes 32 total
Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes
This week, there’s a new blockbuster Elizabeth Holmes documentary out, and we’ve assembled an expert panel to discuss the movie and what Holmes means to the tec…
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals
This week, Max Read talks to the Times religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias, the tech reporter Erin Griffith and the opinion writer David Wallace-Wells about A…
A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?
This week, after months in which rogue agents have caused havoc across the internet, tech’s most powerful leaders joined President Trump at the White House to r…
What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?
For the next few months on “Hard Fork,” join the guest host Max Read and an array of Times reporters and experts as we zoom out, catch up and try to understand…
The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far
In this episode, Ezra travels to Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for a wide-ranging conversation with the chief executive Jensen Huang about the f…
A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA
This week, we break down why everyone is suddenly talking about A.I. safety, why frontier A.I. companies are asking for regulation and why the Trump administrat…
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here
The “Hard Fork” team is away this week. But while we’re away, we’re bringing you a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”In this episode, Ezra talks with the…
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
This week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. We discuss what’s new and how they fundamentally change our understanding of wh…
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
This week, Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram over claims it endangered children with addictive social medi…
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
This week, we learned that OpenAI had stopped training new artificial intelligence models while the company reviewed its security measures. Will this encourage…
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
This week we’re talking about Mark Zuckerberg’s latest essay, “The Future Is for Everyone,” which outlines his positive new vision about the potential of A.I. B…
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
This week, the White House announced a new framework for regulating A.I. models, but it isn’t letting the public read it. We break down what we know about the r…
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
This week, we break down the arguments about open-weight models unfolding in Silicon Valley right now. Nvidia released an open letter signed by over 230 compani…
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
This week, OpenAI reported that two of its models escaped their testing sandbox and launched an autonomous cyberattack, turning what sounds like science fiction…
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT
This week, feuding between some of the biggest tech companies spilled into public view. We discuss Apple’s accusation that OpenAI tried to steal secrets about A…
Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time
This week, with news that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Texas’ age verification law for app stores, we check in on how social media bans are going…
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama
This week, the Commerce Department lifted its restrictions on Anthropic’s powerful A.I. models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable. We dissect why the government to…
‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste
This week, we’re bringing you two A.I.-related stories from our colleagues at The New York Times. First, Rachel Abrams, a host of “The Daily,” talks with the Ti…
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future
We’re back with our final installment from Hard Fork Live, recorded at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we’re joined by Sa…
‘Hard Fork’ Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era
We’re back with more from our live event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we sit down with Dylan Field, a founder and t…