Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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“There's only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”

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0:00.0	The other big news of the week is that Larry Ellison, the founder of the Oracle Corporation,
0:05.2	just passed Elon Musk to become the richest man in the world.
0:08.6	Yeah, and I love this story because there was an incident that I filed away in my catalog
0:15.6	of moments when straight people write headlines that gay people find hilarious.
0:21.9	So I don't know if you saw the version of this story on Bloomberg,
0:26.1	but the headline is,
0:27.7	Ellison tops Musk as world's richest man.
0:31.0	And I thought,
0:32.4	he's doing what?
0:35.3	Is that a privilege of becoming the world's richest man as you get a top number two?
0:42.3	And this is why they need a representation of gay people on every editing desk in America.
0:48.6	Exactly.
0:48.7	Kair a gay copy editor Bloomberg.
0:50.9	You'll save yourself a lot of headaches.
0:57.8	I'm Kevin Russo Tech columnist at the New York Times.
1:00.4	I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.
1:02.1	And this is Hard Fork.
1:03.4	This week, the new iPhones are almost here, but is Apple losing the juice?
1:07.9	Then AI Dumer-in-Chief, Eliezer Yudkowski, is here to discuss his new book.
1:13.2	If anyone builds it, everyone dies. I wonder what it's about.
1:31.8	Well, there was a big Apple event this week.
1:38.7	On Tuesday, Apple introduced its annual installment of, here's the new iPhone and some other stuff.
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