Kevin Roose

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

lol

wow what a shill

YouTube video by Hard Fork How Nice Is Too Nice for an AI Chatbot? | EP 134

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:

-- A hard look at Glazegate, and why it's bad when AI models are too nice
-- I got scanned by a Worldcoin orb
-- And @pjvogt.bsky.social joins us for a new segment about what's going on in our group chats

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lum...

he actually told me to publish it specifically at the worst possible time, he's always doing that

occasionally! but it's hard, so i do bad work instead

i think you missed the part of the article where i (the editor of the new york times, also the CEO of anthropic) called for only robots to have rights. read the room emily!!!

the story is actually about anthropic, a different company than openai. hope that helps.

no not really

he's been on!

hank, i fear you have mistaken this website for a place to talk about AI. this is a place to yell at AI until it goes away.

how dare you jerry. think of the people with no ability to fight unusually sized animals at all. do better.

I agree that you, personally, should resist the impulse to write about this stuff! 💪

My new column is drawing rave reviews like “go fuck yourself,” “die, loser” and more! Take a look and add yours to the pile!

Why I'm Writing a Book About AGI And how you can help

Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI!

This has been a while in the making, very excited to front-burner it for a while. I think what's happening in AI today is the most important and exciting story in the world, bar none, and I can't imagine a richer topic to write hundreds of pages about.

How ‘Based’ Is Grok 3? + Robinhood C.E.O. Vlad Tenev on Markets for Everything + Vibecoding 101 “Elon Musk is willing to spend a phenomenal amount of money and basically do everything he can to stay with the head of the pack on A.I. progress.”

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:

• Grok 3 is here, and it's...woke?
• An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about whether we're becoming a nation of gamblers
• And I build Casey a hot tub time machine using AI

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/p...

omg Chris did we AI pill you???

A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life? It’s a Valentine’s Day Special!

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week's show is a Valentine's Day spectacular!

• What happened at the big AI summit in Paris
• Is AI safety dead?
• How our producer Rachel uses AI to find love
• And Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on the AI-filled future of online dating

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/p...

A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent (Gift Article) Operator, a new computer-using tool from OpenAI, is brittle and occasionally erratic, but it points to a future of powerful A.I. agents.

I spent a week testing Operator, OpenAI's new AI agent that can browse the web and take actions on your behalf. It ordered me dog food, booked a haircut, took online surveys for cash, and more.

Spooky stuff! Even spookier: it registered me for a LinkedIn webinar.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/t...

DeepSeek Deep Dive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express! “DeepSeek is a really odd duck.”

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:

• A DeepSeek DeepDive with the great @jordanschneider.bsky.social, who explains where DeepSeek sits in China's AI ecosystem
• We try OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator
• And choo choo, it's the Hot Mess Express!

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/p...

already did!

Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars “We are starting to see how Silicon Valley wants to do business during the Trump administration.”

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:

• TikTok is both dead and alive, Schrödinger's app
• How tech CEOs are trying to do business with Trump
• Memecoins are back, are you rich yet?
• And @chrislhayes.bsky.social joins to talk about his new book on attention

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/p...

A Test So Hard No AI System Can Pass It — Yet (Gift Article) The creators of a new test called “Humanity’s Last Exam” argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.

I wrote about a new AI evaluation called "Humanity's Last Exam," a collection of 3,000 questions submitted by leading academics to try to stump leading AI models, which mostly find today's college-level tests too easy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

Intelligencer GIVE A GIFT It is at least a little bit funny for one of the world's biggest beneficiaries of strategically written, time-sensitive venture-capital deals to tell the story of the last 30 years in tech in terms of an amorphous counterparty welching on an unwritten contract; it's the familiar "I didn't leave the party, the party left me" story, given new life in translation to the language of start-ups and funding. At least ask for a term sheet next time! It's also the sort of pat, slightly contrarian story that dares you to ask obvious follow-up questions. Even if you accept and account for real ideological changes in the Democratic Party since the age of peak economic liberalism, is it possible that anything else happened in the tech industry between 1994 and 2016 that might have complicated its relationship with politicians and the general public? How about the economy in general? Were Republicans and conservatives vehemently criticizing and antagonizing and legislating against the tech industry at any point during this time, and if so, why didn't it matter? Did - and I'm just spitballing here — a "giant economic boom" actually come to pass, leading to the creation of some of the largest firms on earth, associated with some of the richest people on earth, whose exercise of power was felt by nearby institutions and everyday people in rather direct ways? Is it possible that the varied experiences and concerns of hundreds of millions of actual people with these companies - not just the activist impulses of "communist" tech workers whose employers, according to Andreessen, "felt like they were hours away from full-blown violent riots on their own campuses" - might have had some downstream effects on this unspoken arrangement?

There are less obvious aspects of this new unspoken deal, however, that might also prove relevant. For example: While the new Trump administration is widely expected to reduce regulatory burdens and taxes on small and large tech companies, president has also, on previous occasions, threatened to throw some of his new allies in jail, to investigate and prosecute tech firms on ideological and personal grounds, and to wield threats of regulation in targeted and politicized ways. This new deal also seems to include an awful lot of ego-tending and loyalty-signaling under duress. In this sense, it resembles the fondly remembered '90s, in which a dynamic, growing industry was largely left alone, less than it resembles the conservative tech horror story of the last four years, in which a vastly more powerful but still dynamic industry was very much not left alone, trapped between an unpredictable and intransigent government and whipsawing public opinion. Al Gore's tech-nerd mascots have been replaced with Trump's trillion-dollar mogul collection, placed on proud display during the inauguration, each facing genuine and novel political uncertainty about their respective companies and fortunes: Am I going to get that launch contract, or is Elon going to shut me out? Is "everything now legal" in crypto, post-Trump meme coin? Do we have an outside chance of buying into a semi-nationalized TikTok, or will we end up dealing with a competitor half-owned by the United States government? Are we going to be shut out of this Al infrastructure project? What does our chatbot say when you ask it about Donald Trump?

on the tech industry's new "deal" nymag.com/intelligence...

you should hire my friend Claude, he's pretty smart

YouTube video by Hard Fork Goodbye TikTok | EP 118

In the YouTube version you can actually see our staggering masculinity, it's overpowering really www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6H3...

Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.’s Environmental Impact + Meta’s Masculine Energy “This is truly one of the funniest and most unexpected stories of the young year so far.”

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week:

• TikTok ban v12 final final USE THIS ONE
• HuggingFace's @sashamtl.bsky.social joins to talk about the environmental impact of AI
• And finally, put on your gold chains and pop some Zyns, it's time for MASCULINE ENERGY

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/p...

multiple

honestly it sucks how good we look

Coming tomorrow: the most masculine Hard Fork episode ever