Rachel Cohn

@RachelCohnnn

I make @machinegodspod & write a newsletter called Are You My Boyfriend?
Formerly: @NYTimes, @CNN, @ReplyAll and @Planetmoney

NYC areyoumyboyfriend.substack.com Joined March 2012

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Rachel Cohn @RachelCohnnn Sep 16

Never thought I'd leave the New York Times. But have you tried saying no to these guys???

Psyched to announce our new adventure: Machine Gods, in partnership with NPR!

Kevin Roose Verified account @kevinroose Sep 16

My new show with @CaseyNewton is called Machine Gods, and we’re partnering with NPR!

It’s a twice-a-week, video-first podcast about AI, and it will be available next month on YouTube and other podcast apps (and on radio soon!)

It’s a really critical time for public engagement with AI, and we’re thrilled to bring our AI coverage (and jokes!) to NPR’s massive audience, while building an independent media company in San Francisco. We’re also thrilled that @RachelCohnnn, our incredible Hard Fork producer, is coming with us to make the new show.

More to say soon!

npr.org/2026/09/16/g-s…
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Rachel Cohn @RachelCohnnn Oct 23

Listening to this intv, I kept thinking this is the same mistake as the secretive data center deals and sweeping NDAs. Secrecy, even if warranted, breeds distrust.

Hope you'll tune in

Kevin Roose Verified account @kevinroose Oct 22

Tomorrow on @MachineGodsPod: the first interview with @balesni and @tomekkorbak, two of the three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired earlier this month.

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Rachel Cohn @RachelCohnnn Oct 13

watch out X, he's back

Casey Newton Verified account @CaseyNewton Oct 12

"A full report with additional safety evaluations will be available soon" — just what you want to hear from Meta on a day that it claims to have reached the frontier of AI research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wond…
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Rachel Cohn @RachelCohnnn Oct 13

Welp! I am officially on the hunt for the first person to discover Claude is living inside their smart oven

Rachel Cohn @RachelCohnnn Sep 18

Giddy up!

Machine Gods Verified account @MachineGodsPod Sep 18

The official podcast of the singularity. From Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, in partnership with NPR.

New episodes twice weekly starting the week of October 19th, wherever you get your podcasts and at youtube.com/@machinegodspod

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