S.B.F Goes to Jail + Back to School with A.I. + Self-Driving Car Update

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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When Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in December, he was confined to his parents’ house — but he was left free to roam the internet. Today, the New York Times reporter David Yaffe-Bellany talks about how access to the cyberworld allowed Mr. Bankman-Fried to violate his bail terms and land himself in jail. Then, how universities can manage a generative A.I. world. Plus: another look at autonomous vehicles.

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0:00.0	It's funny if you go to like the top podcasts on Spotify, most days it's like, you know,
0:06.4	it's a mixture of like Joe Rogan and his friends, but then it's like sleep podcasts.
0:11.0	Have you, have you seen these ones?
0:12.4	Yeah, right.
0:13.4	We are now below relaxing white noise.
0:15.4	Unfortunately, they've had some really good guests for some great guests.
0:21.4	Should we do some white noise to open the show today, just for anyone who's having trouble
0:24.5	falling asleep and being as hard for as a sleep aide?
0:27.5	Okay.
0:28.5	Ready?
0:29.5	Yeah.
0:30.5	And then can you just loop that for 40 minutes?
0:35.5	Perfect.
0:36.5	Podcast.
0:37.5	I'm Kevin Russo, I'm a tech columnist at The New York Times.
0:47.2	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer, and you're listening to HardFork.
0:51.0	This week on the show, Sam Bakeman-Free goes to jail.
0:54.1	We'll tell you why and what's next.
0:56.2	Then, we go back to school with Wharton Professor Ethan Mollick, who tells us what teachers
1:01.1	and students need to know about this year in AI.
1:05.2	And finally, another wild week in the world of robotaxies, what happened, and what you
1:10.1	told us about our Autonomous Vehicle episode last week.
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