Hard Fork
The New York Times
Journalists and experts debating emerging tech's societal implications, often through A.I. and cryptocurrency lenses.
Why we picked this
We picked Hard Fork because two New York Times tech reporters arguing weekly about the industry is more useful than any panel. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton treat the news as a shared problem rather than a press release, trading pointed analysis and genuine disagreement instead of conventional wisdom. The show covers AI policy, platform dysfunction, and regulatory failure with the specificity of insiders who actually call the officials involved. The banter is fast; the reporting is faster.
Recent episodes
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here
Sep 11, 20261h 19m
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
Sep 4, 20261h 18m
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
Aug 28, 20261h 2m
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
Aug 21, 20261h 3m
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
Aug 14, 20261h 3m
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
Aug 7, 20261h 5m
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
Jul 31, 20261h 6m
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
Jul 24, 20261h 8m
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT
Jul 17, 20261h 9m
Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time
Jul 10, 20261h 19m
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama
Jul 3, 20261h 6m
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future
Jun 19, 202656 min
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