A guide to thriving alongside AI and automation. The New York Times Book Review called it "a concise, insightful and sophisticated guide to maintaining humane values in an age of new machines."
Kevin Roose
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic·Co-host, Machine Gods·Author, The AGI Chronicles
I'm a journalist who covers AI and the technology industry, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. With Casey Newton, I co-host Machine Gods, a weekly podcast about AI made in partnership with NPR. Before that, I spent a decade as a technology columnist at The New York Times, where Casey and I co-created and co-hosted Hard Fork, and where I created Rabbit Hole, an investigative series about internet radicalization. I've written four books, most recently The AGI Chronicles, a New York Times bestseller about the race to build artificial general intelligence. Before the Times, I was a writer at New York magazine. I live in the Bay Area.
01 Books
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2026
The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence New York Times bestseller
The definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the trillion-dollar sprint to create AGI, drawing on more than 150 interviews with insiders at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. An instant New York Times bestseller, with starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, excerpted in The Atlantic. Learn more and order →
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2021
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
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2014
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
A New York Times bestseller. A behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street's youngest bankers, following eight new recruits through their first years on the job after the 2008 financial crisis.
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2009
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Written when I was a sophomore in college. A memoir of my semester undercover at Liberty University, Jerry Falwell's evangelical college. I transferred from Brown to see what life was like on the other side of the culture wars.
02 Podcasts
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2026–
Machine Gods
The official podcast of the Singularity. A weekly show about AI with Casey Newton, made in partnership with NPR. Every week we talk to someone who matters, then sort out what actually happened, what it means, and what everyone is getting wrong.
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2022–26
Hard Fork
The New York Times tech podcast I co-created and co-hosted with Casey Newton, covering AI, social media, Silicon Valley, and whatever else was breaking that week. One of the most popular tech podcasts in the world.
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2020
Rabbit Hole
An 8-part series on how the internet is changing us. We followed a young man radicalized by YouTube recommendations and explored the algorithms shaping our beliefs. Peabody Award finalist.
03 Selected Writing
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2026
Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence
An excerpt from The AGI Chronicles in The Atlantic, on the feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei and why the Anthropic founders left OpenAI.
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2025
Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We're Not Ready.
Why I think we should take the possibility of transformative AI seriously.
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2023
A Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
The two-hour conversation with Microsoft's AI that sparked a global debate about AI safety.
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2024
How Do You Change a Chatbot's Mind?
I tried to manipulate AI chatbots into liking me. It worked, sort of.
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2024
Meet My A.I. Friends
I spent a month with AI companions. They were surprisingly good company.
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2018
Here Come the Fake Videos, Too
One of the first major investigations into deepfakes, years before they became a crisis.
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2019
Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
A personal experiment in escaping phone addiction that resonated with millions of readers.
Recent work at The Atlantic · Full archive at The New York Times
04 Video
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2021
The Value of Your Humanity in an Automated Future
My TED talk on staying human in the age of AI.
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2022–26
Hard Fork on YouTube
Video clips and full episodes from the podcast.
05 Press & Speaking
Bio
Kevin Roose is an award-winning journalist, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the co-host, with Casey Newton, of Machine Gods, a weekly podcast about AI made in partnership with NPR. He was previously a technology columnist for The New York Times, where he co-created and co-hosted the podcast Hard Fork. He is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), Futureproof, and The Unlikely Disciple. He lives in the Bay Area.
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