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Kevin Roose

@kevinroose

NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model

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Had a great time chatting with jasmine sun about AI, cults, the state of tech journalism, the future of books, the bad advice I gave her in college, and a lot of other stuff. jasmi.news/p/kevin-roose

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new podcast: MEDIA TRAINING ft. Kevin Roose I've admired Kevin's empathetic, ethnographic approach to journalism since finding his books as a college freshman. it was fun to hear him pull back the curtain on the NYT, book-writing, and tech/media wars! 1:00 tech vs. finance vs.

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The NYT Magazine asked me and Casey to record an opener for their big AI issue about how we use AI. We had a good time, and I got to unveil my mental model of LLMs: a very smart assistant who is also high on ketamine. nytimes.com/2025/06/16/mag…

The <a href="/NYTmag/">NYT Magazine</a> asked me and Casey to record an opener for their big AI issue about how we use AI. 

We had a good time, and I got to unveil my mental model of LLMs: a very smart assistant who is also high on ketamine.

nytimes.com/2025/06/16/mag…
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Amazon CEO: "As we role out more Generative AI and agents ... we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs ... In the next few years, we expect this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get

Amazon CEO: "As we role out more Generative AI and agents ... we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs ... In the next few years, we expect this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get
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The problem with trying to buy your way into the AGI race in 2025 is that top-tier AI researchers 1) are already rich, 2) think we have like 1-4 years before superintelligence, and 3) don't want to spend those years building AI companions for Instagram

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Hard Fork Live is going to be incredible. This ChatGPT Coachella poster doesn't even capture all of the fun stuff we've got planned. nytimes.com/events/hardfor…

Hard Fork Live is going to be incredible. This ChatGPT Coachella poster doesn't even capture all of the fun stuff we've got planned. 
nytimes.com/events/hardfor…
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I used to think the "fancy autocomplete" stuff was just goofy cope from NLP dead-enders, but maybe it's actually more calculated than that. There's clearly a market for people who want to be told that AI is a fad and that they don't need to worry about it.