What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!

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As of this week, we have a new president-elect. We discuss how the incoming administration’s approach to technology will affect Elon Musk, a TikTok ban, Big Tech’s antitrust challenges and the speed of A.I. progress. Then, Kashmir Hill, a technology reporter for The Times, joins to discuss her weeklong experiment of letting A.I. make every decision in her life. And finally, we play a round of election-free HatGPT!

Guest:

• Kashmir Hill, technology reporter for The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

• What a Trump Victory Means for Tech

• I Took a ‘Decision Holiday’ and Put A.I. in Charge of My Life

• An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I.

• Meta’s Plan for Nuclear-Powered A.I. Data Center Thwarted by Rare Bees

• Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World’s Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information

Credits

“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, and produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Chris Wood and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Pat McCusker and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Ena Alvarado.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Dahlia Haddad and Jeffrey Miranda.