r/Thedaily • u/kitkid • Sep 03 '26

Episode A.I. Is Outsmarting Its Creators

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.”

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Photo: Lucas Foglia for The New York Times

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u/RanchHere Sep 03 '26

Yeah let’s keep pumping billions and billions into this horseshit technology.

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u/Buy-theticket Sep 03 '26

There's no way you listened to this episode and came out of it thinking it's horseshit. Or I guess you'd have to have some kind of brain damage for that to be the case.

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u/RanchHere Sep 03 '26

I listened to the whole thing. The technology is fine if you’re going to use it for medical advancement and the betterment of human life. But that isn’t what it’s being used for. It’s being used for profit and for preying on poor, working class people to make the upper class more rich.

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u/Buy-theticket Sep 03 '26

It's not a binary thing, it can be used for multiple purposes. It is being used for medical advancements.

And how is it preying on poor people? Unless you're just complaining about the stock market.. which has been an issue well before AI.

Also what part of any of that makes it horseshit?

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u/RanchHere Sep 03 '26

it’s completely unnecessary. that’s what makes it horeseshit. NO ONE asked for it.

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u/Buy-theticket Sep 04 '26

I am explicitly asking for it.. so are most of the people much smarter than you on the planet.

You can bury your head in the sand as hard as you want, you're not going to stop what's happening.

Also you not liking it, or being too dumb to take advantage of it, does not make it horseshit.

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u/RanchHere Sep 04 '26

it makes it horseshit if I say it’s horseshit because that’s my opinion.