Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power
“The technological progress we make in the next 100 years will be far larger than all we’ve made since we first controlled fire and invented the wheel,” writes Sam Altman in his essay “Moore’s Law for...
11 Kesä 20211h 10min
Employers Are Begging for Workers. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
There has been a bit of panic lately over employers who say not enough people want to apply for open jobs. Are we facing a labor shortage? Have stimulus checks and expanded unemployment insurance paym...
8 Kesä 20211h 3min
Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
If you talk to many of the people working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, you’ll hear that we are on the cusp of a technology that will be far more transformative than simply ...
4 Kesä 20211h 16min
Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA’
“My entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space,” Barack Obama told me, sitting in his office in Washington, D.C.To be...
1 Kesä 202158min
Sway: How Online Sleuths Pantsed Putin
Today, while I'm on vacation, we're sharing an episode from Sway, a fellow New York Times Opinion podcast. Host Kara Swisher talks to Eliot Higgins, CEO of the open source investigative operation Bell...
28 Touko 202141min
The Argument: Should We Cancel Student Loan Debt?
This week, while I'm on vacation, we'll be sharing work from two other New York Times Opinion podcasts. First up, an episode from our friends at The Argument about how to cancel student-loan debt. Hos...
25 Touko 202147min
Violent Crime Is Spiking. Do Liberals Have an Answer?
Early estimates find that in 2020, homicides in the United States increased somewhere between 25 percent and nearly 40 percent, the largest spike since 1960, when formal crime statistics began to be c...
21 Touko 20211h 14min
The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent
On May 12, House Republicans voted to remove Representative Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, from her leadership post. Her transgression? Vocally rebuking the claim that the 2020...
18 Touko 20211h 2min
