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We turn each new episode of Hard Fork into a faithful ~10m audio recap — so you know which ones deserve the full listen.

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The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far
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▶ The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far · playing above 1h 52m → 10m
A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA join free to hear → 1h 30m → 10m
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here join free to hear → 1h 24m → 12m
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra join free to hear → 1h 23m → 11m
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT join free to hear → 1h 08m → 13m
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought join free to hear → 1h 07m → 13m
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math join free to hear → 1h 09m → 14m
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express join free to hear → 1h 10m → 10m
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight join free to hear → 1h 12m → 14m
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting join free to hear → 1h 07m → 13m
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT join free to hear → 1h 14m → 7m
Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time join free to hear → 1h 24m → 9m
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama join free to hear → 1h 11m → 9m
‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste join free to hear → 1h 05m → 9m
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