Josh Tyrangiel

New York

Columnist covering artificial intelligence

Education: University of Pennsylvania, bachelor of arts in English and American History; Yale, master of American Studies

Josh Tyrangiel is The Post’s columnist covering artificial intelligence. He was previously the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and chief content officer for Bloomberg Media. A 12-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer, he created Vice News Tonight on HBO and has produced numerous feature-length documentaries for HBO, Netflix, and Apple TV Plus. As chief content officer of Bloomberg Media, he oversaw the company’s media output across five continents and was hailed for his innovative work as the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, winning Advertising Age’s Editor of the Year award for his
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‘He surprised me’: Oprah on her new AI special with Sam Altman

In an interview, Oprah Winfrey discusses her ABC special “AI and the Future of Us.”

September 11, 2024

How will Apple’s new AI change your phone? I asked Tim Cook.

In an interview, Tim Cook explains how Apple’s new AI will enhance your work and life, with guardrails.

June 11, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook at the start of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, Calif., on June 10. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Apple just unveiled the first rational theory of AI for the masses

A collaboration of Apple the geezer and OpenAI the chaos kid will benefit both companies.

June 11, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook attends a panel discussion with Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea during the annual developer conference event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., on Monday. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

Who is to blame for AI becoming ever more human?

Is it the tech companies? Or is it us?

May 30, 2024
Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo, in New York, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Why this year’s election interference could make 2016 look cute

The first big AI crisis isn’t some hypothetical far off in the future. It’s coming on Election Day.

May 30, 2024

Do we actually want AI that seems human?

Chatbots are being made to act and sound like humans. That makes them easier to talk to, but there could be other consequences. As our relationships with artificial intelligence evolve, do we need to draw a brighter line between what is technology and what is us? Opinions columnists Josh Tyrangiel, Bina Venkataraman and Amanda Ripley talk about what we really want out of AI.

May 29, 2024

College students are dropping out in droves. Two sisters could fix that.

A new AI tracks college students who are missing classes, running out of money or just feeling lonely.

May 1, 2024

How AI could transform baseball forever

Artificial intelligence is driving a new “Moneyball.”

April 11, 2024

I found the smartest politician on AI. It’s no one you’d expect.

By some strange turn of events, the smartest politician on AI is ... a Romanian named Dragos Tudorache. And the U.S. should follow his lead on regulation.

March 20, 2024
Dragos Tudorache in 2016. (Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)

Let AI remake the whole U.S. government (oh, and save the country)

Thanks to AI, Operation Warp Speed was a rare triumph for our federal bureaucracy. Now, it can help us blaze a new path to the shining city on a hill.

March 6, 2024