Casey Newton

What was Hard Fork?

Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine…

The A.I. Industry Is Asking to Be Slowed Down

This week, we break down why everyone is suddenly talking about A. I. safety, why frontier A. I. companies are asking for regulation and why the Trump administration is rejecting them.

How This Tech Journalist Would Actually Use AI on a College Campus

The AI safety vibe shift

Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking…

The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab

Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore…

Google gets away with it

A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little.

Why the Hugging Face Attack Was Worse Than We Thought

This week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, which fundamentally changed our understanding of what happened and upgraded our worry about A. I.

The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra - Hard Fork | iHeart

<p>This week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. We discuss what’s new and how they fundamentally change our understanding of what happened.

The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job

Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about…