Kevin Roose Launches 2 New AI Projects With 'Machine Gods' and 'The AGI Chronicles'
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Updated · The Verge · Oct 26
Kevin Roose Launches 2 New AI Projects With 'Machine Gods' and 'The AGI Chronicles'
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Oct 26
Summary
Kevin Roose said he left The New York Times to cofound Machine Gods with Casey Newton, a video-first AI podcast launched last week in partnership with NPR.
Roose framed the move as a bet on YouTube as the most important and stable media platform, arguing journalism still occupies only a small slice of its ecosystem.
In The AGI Chronicles, he said he aimed to preserve a fast-disappearing history of the AI race, drawing on roughly 150 interviews as company messages and records increasingly auto-delete.
Roose argued frontier labs have shifted from treating AGI as a distant idea to an urgent commercial mission, with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google all pushed by scaling gains in large language models.
He said that belief now shapes both the industry’s culture and its business choices, even as backlash grows over a small San Francisco network steering technology with potentially global consequences.