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A.I. Is Outsmarting Its Creators

The Daily

Published
September 3, 2026
Duration
40:36
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Last updated
Sep 3, 2026

Discusses artificial-intelligence, daily.

Summary

From the start, the greatest fear for those developing artificial intelligence was that their creations would go rogue to act in unauthorized and dangerous ways. Some researchers now say it has happened. Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times, explains what this means for his own dwindling sense of techno-optimism. Guest: Kevin Roose, …

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From the start, the greatest fear for those developing artificial intelligence was that their creations would go rogue to act in unauthorized and dangerous ways. Some researchers now say it has happened. Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times, explains what this means for his own dwindling sense of techno-optimism. Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and a host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork.” Background reading: Anatomy of an autonomous a

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