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“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, New York Times journalists explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 222 posts collected by Sputnik

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“Experts over 80% of the time made the same decision as the AI, and over 70% of the time used the AI's arguments to justify their decision. But only 15% of the time did they say, oh yeah, I was influenced by this AI agent. … There's all this concern about AI takeover and rogue AIs. And I think that a lot of the times we're just going to let the AIs take over because we'll just be outsourcing all our decisions and we won't even realize.” — Jasmine Sun, Hard Fork (NYT)
Jasmine Sun · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“An $80 billion net loss seems insane, but it's actually kind of a weird accounting quirk where they have to count some convertible debt that they issued to some of their shareholders as a net loss. … What we've actually seen is that in the first half of this year, they had an operating loss of around six to $700 million. And that's shrinking from the same period last year where it was over $2 billion.” — Erin Griffith, Hard Fork (NYT)
Erin Griffith · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Toward the end, there were a lot of spectators showing up, including people who were in a book club who read John's book and who came together as a little book club outing. And I'm asking them, what are you guys doing here? And one of them told me, which I'll never forget, oh, we're just fans of white collar crime… In the same way that there are people who are fans of murder stories or murder podcasts, there's also a fraud contingent as well.” — Erin Griffith, Hard Fork (NYT)
Erin Griffith · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We're now, you know, 11 years after I broke this story in the Wall Street Journal. And who is stoking the interest? Who is recreating reasons for us to again pay attention to her? It's Elizabeth herself. She is the one who invited these filmmakers into her home 34 days before she was scheduled to go to prison.” — John Carreyrou, Hard Fork (NYT)
John Carreyrou · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If they say the alternative, which is there is no way to contain our experiments, there's just no way — when we test our AI models, it will get out and it will damage the world — then I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down, because the cost to humanity, the damage, is too great.” — Jensen Huang, Hard Fork (NYT)
Jensen Huang · 25 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Hard Fork (NYT) is hosted by Kevin Roose , Casey Newton , Max Read , Ezra Klein , Ross Douthat and Lulu Garcia-Navarro .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We're About to Find Out.

    With Erin Griffith , Mike Isaac and Jasmine Sun

  2. 23 Oct 2026

    What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’

    With Erin Griffith , Rob Copeland and John Carreyrou

  3. 16 Oct 2026

    Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes

    With John Carreyrou and Erin Griffith

  4. 9 Oct 2026

    Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals

  5. 2 Oct 2026

    A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?

    With Mike Isaac , Erin Griffith and Eli Tan

  6. 1 Oct 2026

    What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?

  7. 25 Sep 2026

    The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far

    With Jensen Huang

  8. 18 Sep 2026

    A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA

  9. 11 Sep 2026

    The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here

    With Jasmine Sun

  10. 4 Sep 2026

    The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

    With Ajeya Cotra

  11. 28 Aug 2026

    Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT

    With Arvind Narayanan

  12. 21 Aug 2026

    OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought

    With Jill Lepore

Guests

David Yaffe-Bellany (11 episodes), Erin Griffith (6 episodes), Kate Conger (4 episodes), PJ Vogt (3 episodes), Demis Hassabis (3 episodes), Karen Weise (3 episodes), Daniel Kokotajlo (3 episodes), Kashmir Hill (3 episodes), Jasmine Sun (3 episodes), Sam Altman (3 episodes), Joanna Stern (2 episodes), Rachel Cohn (2 episodes), and 187 more.