Kevin Roose

Career

Before joining The New York Times, Roose was a writer at New York magazine. Roose then spent a decade as a technology columnist at the Times, where Roose created Rabbit Hole, an eight-part investigative audio series from 2020 on how the internet shapes beliefs, and co-created the tech podcast Hard Fork with Casey Newton, which they co-hosted from 2022 to 2026.¹

Roose is now a contributing writer at The Atlantic and co-hosts Machine Gods with Newton, a weekly podcast about AI produced in partnership with NPR, which began in 2026. Each week the hosts interview a guest and then discuss recent developments in AI.¹

Channel and publications

Roose has written four books. The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026) draws on interviews with people at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, and an excerpt appeared in The Atlantic. Earlier books include Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation (2021) and Young Money (2014), which followed new Wall Street recruits after the 2008 financial crisis.¹³

Roose's reporting on AI and online life includes a 2018 investigation of deepfake videos, a 2023 account of a long conversation with Microsoft's Bing chatbot, and 2024 pieces on AI companions and on attempts to change how chatbots describe a person. Roose also gave a 2021 TED talk on the value of human skills in an automated future.¹

Work and contributions

• Machine Gods Show, channel or publication

  Co-hosts this weekly podcast about AI with Casey Newton, made in partnership with NPR, since 2026.¹²

• Hard Fork Show, channel or publication

  Co-created and co-hosted The New York Times technology podcast with Casey Newton from 2022 to 2026.¹

• The AGI Chronicles Show, channel or publication

  Author of this 2026 book about the race to create artificial general intelligence.¹

Timeline

1. 2014Published Young Money, about new Wall Street recruits after the 2008 financial crisis.¹
2. 2018Published "Here Come the Fake Videos, Too", an early investigation into deepfakes.¹
3. 2020Created Rabbit Hole, an eight-part New York Times audio series on how the internet changes people.¹
4. 2021Published Futureproof and gave a TED talk on staying human in an automated future.¹
5. 2022Co-created and began co-hosting the Hard Fork podcast at The New York Times with Casey Newton.¹
6. 2023Published an account of a two-hour conversation with Microsoft's Bing chatbot.¹
7. 2026Published The AGI Chronicles with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.¹³
8. 2026Began co-hosting Machine Gods, a weekly AI podcast with Casey Newton made in partnership with NPR.¹

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Technology columnist and co-host of Hard Fork, The New York Times¹

Where they work

• The Atlantic 1 person in the wiki
• Machine Gods 1 person in the wiki

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