Kevin Roose
@kevinroose.com
NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
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...
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...
How Nice Is Too Nice for an AI Chatbot? | EP 134
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My new column is drawing rave reviews like “go fuck yourself,” “die, loser” and more! Take a look and add yours to the pile!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
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.
Why I'm Writing a Book About AGI
And how you can help
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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...
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.”
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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.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?
It’s a Valentine’s Day Special!
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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...
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.
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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...
DeepSeek Deep Dive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!
“DeepSeek is a really odd duck.”
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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...
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.”
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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...
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.
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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...
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.”
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It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
Inspiring words on innovation from the inventor of Stories, Reels, and Threads.
9to5Mac@9to5mac.com · 2y agoMark Zuckerberg slams Apple in Joe Rogan interview: ‘They haven’t invented anything great in a while’
It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: • The gadget robbers did NOT take from my house • What’s really behind Meta’s MAGA pivot • Deepseek, o3, and catching up on a wild month of AI progress • And 2025’s first game of HatGPT! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/p...
Meta Goes MAGA Mode + a Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT
“I think this set of changes that the company announced this week are the most important series of policy changes that they have made in the past five years.”
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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
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Everyone assumes Zuckerberg is a cynical operator who is cozying up to Trump for business reasons, but I wouldn’t discount the possibility that spending so much time around MMA guys/in the Rogansphere has truly pilled him.
Kurt Wagner@kurtwagner.bsky.social · 2y agoNew: Mark Zuckerberg is appointing three new directors to Meta’s board, including UFC’s Dana White. White and Zuckerberg have become friends given Zuckerberg‘s interest in MMA. White was also a very vocal and involved Trump supporter during the campaign.
5 minutes after giving my toddler kinetic sand: this stuff is incredible, a marvel of material science day 3 of finding lumps of sand in every furniture crevice in the house: whoever invented this should be tried at The Hague
Every year, I compile a list of my favorite tech projects, and honor them in a column called the Good Tech Awards. This year, I was excited to feature LLMs for genomics, AI brain mapping, open-source maintainers, the NASA heroes who saved Voyager 1, and more. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/t...
The 2024 Good Tech Awards (Gift Article)
In a year of continued A.I. progress, “founder mode” drama and a Trump election win, a few tech projects stood out for their clear benefits to humanity.
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the feeling when the scissors glide through the wrapping paper >>>>>>>>
"All intuition about AI capabilities will need to get updated for o3," says the founder of the ARC prize — designed to be very difficult for LLMs to solve — after OpenAI took the benchmark from 5% with o1 to 85% today with o3 arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...
It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week, @caseynewton.bsky.social and I went to Arizona to see Amazon’s overhauled drone delivery program, which brought us a jar of Brazilian Bum Bum Cream in 45 minutes. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/p...
Is Amazon’s Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?
We flew to Arizona to test the recently debuted service ourselves.
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Putting together my annual Good Tech Awards list of the tech projects/startups/nonprofits that contributed to human flourishing in 2024. Past lists have included things like AI for accessibility, carbon capture, AlphaFold, etc. What should be on it this year?
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week: • TikTok is maybe going to get banned for real? • Julian Kelly from Google explains their new Willow quantum chip (which I almost understand) • And the cult of Claude! Podcast: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/p... YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyUV...
Will Trump Ban TikTok? | EP 113
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I wrote about the most eligible bachelor in San Francisco's tech scene: a chatbot named Claude, who is helping AI insiders with everything from legal advice to relationship drama. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/t...
Why Anthropic’s Claude Is a Hit with Tech Insiders (Gift Article)
A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?
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It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: 😮 Legendary chips reporter Don Clark joins to talk about Intel’s surprise CEO ouster and the state of chips 🤖 A recap of our trip to the Curve AI conference 🎁 And the Hard Fork gift guide! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/p...
Is Intel Cooked? + What’s Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide
The sudden departure of Intel’s C.E.O. reignites concerns about U.S. dependence on foreign manufacturing.
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One of the most important debates in tech right now is the group of folks who think AI is fake and sucks vs. the people who think AI is real and dangerous. I wrote about why I'm in the latter camp, and talked about my differences with Gary Marcus www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-...
