Kevin Roose discusses his AGI book and Machine Gods podcast
Original title: Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?
He and Casey Newton left The New York Times; Machine Gods is a video-first show in partnership with NPR.
The Verge's Decoder interviews Kevin Roose about leaving The New York Times with Casey Newton to launch the podcast Machine Gods and about his book The AGI Chronicles. Roose says he is listed as CEO after a coin flip and wants the show to be video-first while still serving audio listeners. The published excerpt is a lightly edited conversation about media economics and reporting on frontier labs, not a product or security disclosure.
- Machine Gods launched the week before this October 26 interview.
- Roose previously co-hosted the New York Times podcast Hard Fork.
- He describes YouTube as underused for what he considers high-quality journalism.
- The excerpt says the conversation later turns philosophical and is cut off.
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From the original article
16 min read at theverge.com
Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but he and friend of the show Casey Newton just left the Times to start the all-new tech podcast Machine Gods, which launched last week.
By Nilay Patel · theverge.com
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