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Sayash Kapoor

AI researcher, co-author of 'AI as Normal Technology'

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Debated Daniel Kokotajlo on Hard Fork Live about AI diffusion vs. rapid acceleration.

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  • Kevin Roose — Technology columnist; co-host, Hard Fork, The New York Times

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Jun 19, 2026 — Hard Fork Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future — Debated Daniel Kokotajlo on stage over whether AI will diffuse gradually like a normal technology or produce an abrupt intelligence explosion.
    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Apr 18, 2025 — Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a 'Normal' Technology? + HatGPT — Made the case that AI is better understood as a slowly diffusing general-purpose technology than an imminent intelligence explosion.
    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Debated Daniel Kokotajlo on Hard Fork Live about AI diffusion vs. rapid acceleration.

  • Derek Thompson — Writer and host, Plain English, Independent / The Ringer

    • Wrote aboutmention · secondhand · Jan 1, 2026 — The Big Question Lurking Beneath the AI Debate — "Narayanan and Kapoor, a professor and Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Princeton, did not claim that artificial intelligence was boring or unimportant." — referring to their

  • Casey Newton — Founder, Platformer; co-host, Hard Fork, Platformer

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Nov 1, 2025 — Hard Fork Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future — "'Hard Fork' Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future" features Sayash Kapoor and Daniel Kokotajlo discussing their differing visions of A.I. transformation, recorded at t

  • Kara Swisher — Host, On and Pivot; technology journalist, Independent

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Sep 15, 2025 — How To AI: A Practical Business Q&A With Three Experts — Kara interviewed him on a panel about which business uses of AI are reliable versus overhyped, and treated his evidence-based skepticism seriously.

  • Freddie deBoer — Independent writer, Substack

    • Wrote aboutmention · secondhand · Jan 1, 2025 — No, I Mean It - AI Maximalists in the Media Should Really, Actually Take the Shitting-in-the-Yard Challenge — "I appreciate that Hard Fork has had on Sayash Kappor of AI Snake Oil, for example, and wish that such appearances would inform their apprehension of the immediate future a little

  • Steve Inskeep — Host, Morning Edition, NPR

    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Interviewed by Inskeep in June 2026 challenging the narrative that AI is driving mass layoffs.