Casey Newton
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Oct 27, 2026
Peter O'DowdCORRESPONDENT
It's about the all-out sprint to create artificial general intelligence, a quest that has consumed Silicon Valley.
Peter O'DowdCORRESPONDENT
Kevin Roose is also the co-host of a new NPR podcast, Machine Gods.
Peter O'DowdCORRESPONDENT
It's coming out later this month.
Peter O'DowdCORRESPONDENT
Kevin, you're a busy man.
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Kevin RooseGUEST
So if you have a school or a hospital or an electrical grid that runs on software, that is now vulnerable, not to a human with an ill intent, but to an agent swarm that decides that taking down the electrical grid is the best way to accomplish whatever goal it's been given.
Peter O'DowdCORRESPONDENT
There's something called AI vertigo.
Peter O'DowdCORRESPONDENT
Your co-host Casey Newton, I think, coined this term.
Peter O'DowdCORRESPONDENT
It's when you realize that this technology is moving way faster than your own mind can process, and yet you know, you understand that the world is changing.
CorrineHOST
The news coverage of AI is paid for by AIDoomers, a large Tarbell grant.
CorrineHOST
The organization plans to spend $10 million in total by the end of 2027. went to an NPR podcast by AI journalists Kevin Roos and Casey Newton.
CorrineHOST
More disturbing are the annual Tarbell Fellowships, 10 weeks of intensive AI journalism fundamentals training, and then nine-month placements at
speaker_0NARRATOR
a newsroom.
CorrineHOST
The news coverage of AI is paid for by AIDoomers, a large Tarbell grant.
CorrineHOST
The organization plans to spend $10 million in total by the end of 2027. went to an NPR podcast by AI journalists Kevin Roos and Casey Newton.
CorrineHOST
More disturbing are the annual Tarbell Fellowships, 10 weeks of intensive AI journalism fundamentals training, and then nine-month placements at
speaker_0NARRATOR
a newsroom.
Nilay PatelHOST
My guest today is Kevin Roose, a journalist and author of the new book, The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry.
Nilay PatelHOST
Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast, Hard Fork, but he and a friend of the show, Casey Newton, just left the Times to start the all-new tech podcast, Machine Gods, which
Kevin RooseGUEST
launched last week.
Nilay PatelHOST
As you'll hear, Kevin and I have been friends for a long time, and we've often talked about his desire to enter the creator economy.
Nilay PatelHOST
But you did it.
Nilay PatelHOST
You left the Times.
Nilay PatelHOST
You started your own podcast with our friend Casey Newton.
Nilay PatelHOST
It is the next generation of the very popular podcast, Hard Fork, which was excellent.
Lauren MushroGUEST
And then I also have been listening to Hard Fork Just Ended.
Lauren MushroGUEST
But Casey Newton is starting a new podcast that I would recommend that I'll have to grab the name of.
Lauren MushroGUEST
And then, of course, I listen to Sinead Bevel.
Lauren MushroGUEST
I've got questions with Sinead Bevel.
Brooke GramerHOST
So be sure to send those resources my way.
Lauren MushroGUEST
I will.
Lauren MushroGUEST
And I just remembered the new Casey Newton podcast is Machine Gods, and it's with NPR.
Lauren MushroGUEST
It's NPR for distribution, yeah.
Shel HoltzHOST
But my Gmail summary skill does a great job of telling me, here are the things that they're all covering.
Shel HoltzHOST
Then the neuron covered this, and TLDR covered that, and Casey Newton's newsletter covered this other thing.
Shel HoltzHOST
And I can skim that in about two or three minutes, and it's great.
Shel HoltzHOST
But am I getting the context? Am I getting the nuance? Am I missing something? Is it skewering some of that information as it creates its summary? Yeah, I read this knowing full well.
Shel HoltzHOST
But my Gmail summary skill does a great job of telling me, here are the things that they're all covering.
Shel HoltzHOST
Then the neuron covered this, and TLDR covered that, and Casey Newton's newsletter covered this other thing.
Shel HoltzHOST
And I can skim that in about two or three minutes, and it's great.
Shel HoltzHOST
But am I getting the context? Am I getting the nuance? Am I missing something? Is it skewering some of that information as it creates its summary? Yeah, I read this knowing full well.
Casey NewtonHOST
What's the real reason these safety researchers were fired by OpenAI? What message do they have for the world now that they've left? What's inside Pandora's box? And why does the answer involve something called Polly Pocket's precious payload? I'm Kevin Roose.
Casey NewtonHOST
I'm Casey Newton.
Casey NewtonHOST
And from San Francisco, this is Machine Gods
Kevin RooseHOST
in partnership with NPR.
Gavin PurcellHOST
So basically you could skate in the world of Disco Elysium, something super, super cool.
Gavin PurcellHOST
And the other thing I wanted to shout out is our friends Kevin Roos and Casey Newton, people that I've known forever in different ways.
Gavin PurcellHOST
Kevin Roos has been on this show before.
Gavin PurcellHOST
Just launched their new podcast, Machine Gods, which is they went independent from the New York Times and they partnered with NPR.
Ben WhitelawHOST
But the fact that her family have kind of linked the two is very notable and does follow a trend of people who suffered in this way.
Jeff HorwitzGUEST
It's understandable, right? I mean, this issue goes back to, like, Casey Newton, I want to say 2019.
Jeff HorwitzGUEST
Guy was just starting out on the beat when he was racking up some really good stories on this subject.
Jeff HorwitzGUEST
I mean, it's kind of like the Ursula Wigwin omelas, the ones who walk away.
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