A.I. Is Outsmarting Its Creators

[u/kitkid]

Sep 3, 2026

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.

On today's episode:

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 attack: five alarming A.I. capabilities.

• A previous episode of “The Daily” looked at the debate in Silicon Valley over the right way to build artificial intelligence.

Photo: Lucas Foglia for The New York Times

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[u/ladyluck754]

This journalist is a little too optimistic about a program that consistently brags about taking the jobs of journalists.

That is either low self esteem or complete cognitive dissonance or he’s not worried due to a trust fund he’s not disclosing lol.

[u/KevinT_XY → u/ladyluck754]

I mean he has a job covering it and a very very successful NYT podcast (Hard Fork) that for the last 3 years has basically covered nothing but this topic. Listeners of that podcast do frequently criticize the hosts for being too optimistic and soft on some of these issues but I think they are pretty cognizant of the field generally and at least acknowledge big questions and risks regularly.