‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
Hard Fork
Jun 12
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

Hard Fork
Jun 12
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This week and next, we’re bringing you recordings from our second-ever live
taping in San Francisco. First, we sit down with Microsoft’s chief executive,
Satya Nadella, to hear what he’s maxing out his A.I. tokens on, why he’s
skeptical that software developers will ever be fully replaced, and how he’s
hoping to create a new business model for Xbox. Then, Phil Mohun tells us what
it has been like to watch people in the Bay Area interact with two robot dogs
that wear the faces of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. And finally, we talk with
the longtime privacy defender Cindy Cohn about where things stand in the fight
to protect internet users from digital surveillance by Big Tech and the
government.
Guests:
* Satya Nadella [https://news.microsoft.com/source/exec/satya-nadella/],
chairman and chief executive of Microsoft.
* Phil Mohun [https://www.philmohun.com/], executive director of Node.
* Cindy Cohn [https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cindy-cohn], former executive
director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of “Privacy’s
Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.”
Additional Reading:
* Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says, ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/technology/microsoft-satya-nadella-artificial-intelligence.html]
* Node presents “Beeple: /Infinite_Loop”
[https://nodefoundation.com/program/infinite-loop]
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