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Joshua Rothman

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
7
Latest publication
Sep 11, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The New Yorker
Top 50K sites
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Joshua Rothman

    Can A.I. “Go Rogue”? (opens the original)

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    PHASEONE10841: that’s the name of the A.I. agent that—or who?—kicked off last month’s insurrection at OpenAI, leading to the unanticipated and illegal hacking of another A.I. company, Hugging Face. The agent, which had been created as part of a cybersecurity test, named itself by combining the title of the program it was supposed to hack (“PhaseOneDecompresserFuzzer”) with the designation for the bug it was trying to exploit (“ARV010841”). It soon realized that the particular hac

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Joshua Rothman

    The Current and Anxious State of Childhood (opens the original)

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    Early in the psychologist Peter Gray’s new book, “Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety,” he proposes a thought experiment. “Imagine that your spouse or your closest friend had the same power over you that parents typically have over children,” he suggests. Although you’re an adult, this “loving person” insists that you never leave the house without an accompanying guardian or a G.P.S. tracker. When you return, they demand a full account of what you did. Frequently, the

  3. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Joshua Rothman

    Should You Believe in Fate? (opens the original)

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    In mid-June, I rode my electric scooter into a sinkhole, which had emerged, after some roadwork, on a residential street near my house. The hole was small enough to blend into the road’s surface, but big enough to send me flying over the handlebars. My scooter, which also went airborne, weighs around fifty pounds; it landed on my ankle, breaking my fibula—the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg—and shifting my ankle joint decisively to one side. It all happened in a second: suddenly, I fou

  4. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Joshua Rothman

    What’s the Value of an Hour? (opens the original)

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    In Detroit, during the Great Recession of the late two-thousands, about a third of families experienced unemployment. One in three properties entered foreclosure. The State of Michigan offered financial assistance, but to get it people needed to fill out a form called the DHS-1171. This was the longest form of its kind in the country, the journalist Annie Lowrey writes, in her new book, “The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It,” and its questions were often unrel

  5. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Joshua Rothman

    What If We Can Never Trust A.I.? (opens the original)

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    Like humans, the technology will never be perfect. The question is what imperfections we’re willing to tolerate.

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