What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?

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Something is changing in the world of tech.

All of a sudden, the last six months, it became useful.

If managed poorly, I even believe that AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole.

We need an immediate pause on advanced AI development.

It's a hoax.

The robots are not going to be taking over the world.

But we don't really know what any of it means for the tech industry, for the economy,

and especially for all the rest of us.

We're being told by AI engineers themselves that AI companies are gambling with our lives,

so it'd be pretty easy for a future version of Claude to hack into a drone, maybe a military drone,

and have it fly around killing people.

But at the same time, we're being encouraged to turn over our email and our bank accounts to AI agents,

so they can make restaurant reservations and hang out for junk on our behalf.

Now, Euler can go on walks, play fetch, and shop for me online using Stripe.

Meanwhile, the only issue Americans can agree on is data centers, as in, no.

Are we facing down an extinction level event, or are we entering a new frontier of consumer

convenience?

Are we witnessing something like the birth of fire, or something like the birth of Clippy,

our mass layoffs coming?

And if we're all about to lose our jobs, how are we going to pay for the dinners that our agents

are scheduling for us?

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I'm not sure the future has ever seemed as strange and unsettled as it does right now,

and if all of this is making you feel a little crazy, you're not alone.

For the next few months on HardFork, we're going to Zoom out, catch up, and try to understand

what's happening both inside the tech industry and everywhere else.

I'll be joined by an array of times, reporters, and tech experts to talk through the weird new

future in the way we're all experiencing it. I'm Max Reed. As a journalist, I've written about

everything from AI Slop to prediction markets to Mark Zuckerberg's political ambitions.

I've also written about his choices in jewelry.

But I'm also someone who's living, working, and raising a child in the world being built

by the tech industry. I'm sometimes nervous, and sometimes excited, and sometimes confused

about our weird new tech future. But more than anything else, I'm trying to understand it.

If you'd like to join us as we figure it out, stay tuned to this feed and watch our full episodes

on youtube.com slash hard for it. I can't wait to see you all there.

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