Hard Fork Discusses AI Controversies and Employment
Hard Fork (NYT) · rss · 2026-07-17
This episode of Hard Fork covers three main topics:
- Publicized corporate disputes: Apple accuses OpenAI of attempting to steal its hardware business secrets, with friction between tech giants further surfacing.
- Product and access changes: The show also mentions OpenAI's new model/product Sol, and Anthropic expanding access to model Fable.
- AI and employment warnings: They discuss a statement co-organized by Erik Brynjolfsson calling for economists and AI researchers to "act now" to steer AI toward augmenting rather than replacing humans.
The latter part includes a HatGPT game segment and lists multiple further readings, all focusing on AI competition, regulation, education cheating, data center limits, and creator backlash against AI devices.
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