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Kevin Roose — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Kevin Roose has appeared on 4 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Search Engine, Smart Girl Dumb Questions, Hard Fork. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Kevin said
“If the average person outside of San Francisco had access to the dinner table conversations of AI insiders in San Francisco, it would kill them.”
— Kevin Roose (04:16)
“For the last decade, all of the critical decisions about this technology have been made by a very small number of people, like 50, 100, maybe 500 people. This is a technology that is too powerful to be run by 500 people in San Francisco.”
— Kevin Roose (54:46)
“The thing that really scared me about the Sydney essay was not the system was capable of doing destructive things. It's like, what happens when the fourth or fifth generation of this becomes capable of taking actions on the internet?”
— Kevin Roose on AI safety escalation
Episode appearances
4 
Will AI Kill Us? Or Make Us Hotter? In San Francisco's AI circles, there's a researcher who no longer wears sunscreen. His logic: AI will either kill everyone, or it will cure skin cancer. Either…
AI Safety Goes Mainstream When Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at both Anthropic and OpenAI, posted a viral resignation letter saying neither company "is acting responsibly" and that they are…
Zuck's Meta Manifesto, Data Center Wars, and AI Slop Pushback The episode opens with a surprise: Kevin Roose and Casey Newton announce they are leaving the New York Times podcast Hard Fork to…
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