
How A.I. Agents Are Going to Transform Our Lives
About this episode
From the show’s notesAfter months of rogue agents causing havoc across the internet, tech’s most powerful leaders joined President Trump at the White House to rebrand A.I. Meanwhile, two of the biggest companies in the field — OpenAI and Meta — released what they say are their most useful (and cutest) A.I. tools to date: personal assistants.
To break it all down, our guest host Max Read is joined by the Times tech reporters Mike Isaac, Erin Griffith and Eli Tan. They explore what it’s like to hand your life over to Meta’s Muse — and discuss how things are becoming potentially more dangerous and transformative than ever.
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Credits “Hard Fork” is guest-hosted by Max Read. Produced by Whitney Jones and Eddie Costas. We’re edited by Vjeran Pavic. Engineering by Whitney Jones and original music by Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto. Podcast Art Direction by Benjamin Wilkerson Tousley. Thumbnails by Lucy Naland. Special thanks to Brooke Minters, Lisa Tobin, Sam Dolnick, Julia Simon, Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam and Dahlia Haddad.






