# Kevin Roose

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The $18,000 Gamble: How Winning Jet.com's Contest in 2015 Led to a Fortune

In this episode of Depends on the Context, I revisit the extraordinary story of Eric Martin, who spent $18,000 of his own money in 2015 trying to win a referral contest for Jet.com, an online retailer that hadn't even launched yet. He won 100,000 stock options. Just 18 months later, Walmart acquire…

Kevin Roose on how AGI went from pipe dream to roadmap

I’ve known former New York Times reporter Kevin Roose since 2017, when we rode a bus into the California desert to try out Waymo’s early driverless cars. Now he has a new book called The AGI Chronicles about the rise of today’s leading AI labs. He also just launched a podcast with Casey Newton call…

What scares the people making AI

As artificial intelligence becomes woven into daily life, the race to build increasingly powerful systems is only accelerating. In this episode of Science Quickly, tech journalist Kevin Roose discusses the rise of artificial general intelligence and explains why some of the people developing AI are…

What scares the people making AI

As artificial intelligence becomes woven into daily life, the race to build increasingly powerful systems is only accelerating. In this episode of Science Quickly, tech journalist Kevin Roose discusses the rise of artificial general intelligence and explains why some of the people developing AI are…

Kevin Roose: Inside the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

Imagine a 21st century Manhattan Project, tasked with creating artificial general intelligence. That’s what a handful of AI companies have been racing to do over the past decade, seeking to build the most powerful technology in history: artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a computer system ca…

Why Are AI Builders the Biggest Doomers?

Kevin Roose spent years inside the biggest AI labs for The AGI Chronicles, and what he found is stranger than the headlines: the people most afraid of artificial intelligence are the ones building it, and the finish line keeps moving. Then, Gary Rivlin shares ideas from AI Valley, a Pulitzer Prize-…

FIR #535: Communicating in the Wake of Big Tech’s Big Political Gamble

Political access can open doors, but what happens when the political landscape changes? Big Tech’s close relationships with Donald Trump set the stage for a discussion of corporate reputation, executive judgment, and the limits of communications counsel. Nick Clegg’s assessment of Silicon Valley’s …

FIR #535: Communicating in the Wake of Big Tech’s Big Political Gamble

Political access can open doors, but what happens when the political landscape changes? Big Tech’s close relationships with Donald Trump set the stage for a discussion of corporate reputation, executive judgment, and the limits of communications counsel. Nick Clegg’s assessment of Silicon Valley’s …

FIR #535: Communicating in the Wake of Big Tech’s Big Political Gamble

Political access can open doors, but what happens when the political landscape changes? Big Tech’s close relationships with Donald Trump set the stage for a discussion of corporate reputation, executive judgment, and the limits of communications counsel. Nick Clegg’s assessment of Silicon Valley’s …