Hard Fork Live: Robots, Revelry and the A.I. Revolution

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 26, 2026

Duration

2h 30m

Channel

Hard Fork

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Missed our live show? As promised, here is Hard Fork's full live event in San Francisco! A few weeks ago, we took the show on the road, but not too far from home. Our evening in San Francisco featured exclusive interviews with CEOs, lawyers, podcasters and robots. Whether you couldn’t make it out to California or if just want to relive the chaos, here's the full show. Guests: Satya Nadella, chairman and chief executive of Microsoft. Phil Mohun, executive director of Node. Cindy Cohn, former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dylan Field, chief executive and co-founder of Figma. Dan Powell, New York Times music composer. Sayash Kapoor, an A.I. researcher at Princeton University and a co-author of the newsletter “AI as Normal Technology” Daniel Kokotajlo, the executive director of the AI Futures Project and a co-author of “AI 2027” George Ekas, the director of engineering at Toberlife AI Dwarkesh Patel, a tech podcaster 0:00 Intro and welcome to Hard Fork Live 2026 4:13 Satya Nadella, Microsoft 34:08 Phil Mohun, NODE 41:34 Cindy Cohn, EFF 1:04:13 Dan Powell and Teenage Engineering Choir 1:09:07 Dylan Field, Figma 1:32:52 In Memoriam video 1:36:10 Daniel Kokotajlo and Sayash Kapoor 1:59:53 George Ekas, Toborlife 2:07:45 Dwarkesh Patel 2:19:55 Audience Q&A FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hardfork Kevin Roose - https://www.instagram.com/kevinroose/ Casey Newton - https://www.instagram.com/crumbler/ Twitter (X): Kevin - https://x.com/kevinroose Casey - https://x.com/CaseyNewton Threads: Kevin - https://www.threads.net/@kevinroose Casey - https://www.threads.net/@crumbler Casey’s publication, Platformer: https://www.platformer.news/ Subscribe to Hard Fork! Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/44fllCS2FTFr2x2kjP9xeT?si=86ba626802b849cd Amazon - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7c7fe198-e6a8-41a8-b0fe-1d46b976dcd8/hard-fork YouTube Music - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9gMmtMLXxsa8C0PzHFL2tJFh7FrKrYD&si=Fwb9Uwon1ZneNsBp The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork “Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton. Produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones. We’re edited by Vjeran Pavic. Engineering by Chris Wood and original music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love. Video production by Jake Nicol, Chris Schodt and Sawyer Roque. Podcast Art Direction by Benjamin Wilkerson Tousley. Podcast Art & Animations by Julian Hespenheide. Additional Motion graphics by Phil Robibero. Thumbnails by Julia Moburg and Tara Godvin. Special thanks to Brooke Minters, Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam and Dahlia Haddad.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Kevin Roose

  host

  Tech columnist at The New York Times and co-host of Hard Fork.

• Casey Newton

  host

  Founder of Platformer and co-host of Hard Fork.

• Satya Nadella

  guest

  CEO of Microsoft.

• Phil Mohun

  guest

  Executive director of NODE (New Art + Tech) in Palo Alto.

• Cindy Cohn

  guest

  Executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

• Sayash Kapoor

  guest

  AI researcher focused on evaluation and governance; argues for “AI as a normal technology” framing.

• Daniel Kokotajlo

  guest

  AI forecaster and co-author of AI 2027; formerly worked on scenario forecasting at OpenAI.

• George Ekas

  guest

  Robotics company representative discussing humanoid and quadruped robot deployments and pricing.

• Dwarkesh Patel

  guest

  Podcaster and YouTuber covering AI, technology, and long-form interviews.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Hard Fork, featuring Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, Hard Fork Live: Robots, Revelry and the A.I. Revolution explores Hard Fork Live explores AI’s future, power, privacy, and robots. Hard Fork Live 2 (2026) is a stage show built around big questions about AI’s direction, featuring interviews with Satya Nadella, Cindy Cohn, Dylan Field, forecasters Daniel Kokotajlo and Sayash Kapoor, robotic demos, and audience Q&A.

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