
Kevin Roose
Technology Columnist at The New York Times
Co-Host at Hard Fork
NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Writing a book about AGI.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Roose |Casey Newton |Whitney Jones |Rachel Cohn
Kevin Roose and Whitney Jones and Dan PowellMarion LozanoRowan Niemisto and This week, President Trump’s family business announced that it was introducing a mobile phone and a cellular network. We tick through the many potential conflicts of interest this new business venture raises. Then, the co-founders of the startup Mechanize defend their efforts to automate away all jobs — starting with software engineering. And finally, we take a trip to the movie theater.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Roose |Casey Newton |Rachel Cohn |Whitney Jones
transcripttranscriptMeta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation“These pay packages that they’re offering are stretching into nine figures.”2025-06-13T07:00:06-04:00This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email [email protected] with any questions. casey newtonLet me ask you about this.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Kevin Roose |Casey Newton |Whitney Jones |Rachel Cohn |Matt Collette |Chris Wood | +4 more
This week, Kevin and Casey discuss the sudden breakdown between President Trump and Elon Musk, whose disagreements over the policy bill before Congress quickly erupted into an all-out feud. Then, an ex-DOGE coder explains what it was really like to work inside the Trump administration's cost-cutting arm. And finally, the former New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells explains why some chefs are turning to A.I. for inspiration.
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3 weeks ago |
straitstimes.com | Kevin Roose
Millions of young people in the United States will graduate from college soon and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favour of artificial intelligence.
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3 weeks ago |
afr.com | Kevin Roose
Kevin RooseJun 5, 2025 – 11.04am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? This month, millions of young people will graduate from university in America and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favour of artificial intelligence.
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There is a strain of AI skepticism that is rooted in pretending like it’s still 2021 and nobody can actually use this stuff for themselves. It has survived for longer than I would have guessed!

Large language models “are not emotionally intelligent or ‘smart’ in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word,” @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Understanding this is essential to avoiding AI’s most corrosive effects: https://t.co/IxEmLrY9M8

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Hard Fork ep 139: The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT 00:00:51 - It's Kevin's birthday! 00:02:39 - This week on the show 00:03:05 - The Musk/Trump breakup 00:19:24 - Interview with @shl, former DOGE staffer 00:46:58 - NYT's @pete_wells on AI for chefs https://t.co/pFmIXZf0sz