Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2026-10-15
Books mentioned on The Bumpy Road To AGI — With Kevin Roose
Kevin Roose is the author of The AGI Chronicles,. Roose joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether an AI industry rife with personal rivalries, infighting, and mistrust can be trusted to develop technology more powerful than humans.
Alex Kantrowitz discussed The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The AGI Chronicles
The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose provides a behind-the-scenes look at the fierce technological race to develop artificial superintelligence among major artificial intelligence companies.
Discussed“Um the the thing that struck me cuz I read the book, you can see. By the way, it's a video. looks read. I read it through and through, cover to cover. Um the theme in the book, of course, is the building of AI, but it's also the drama.”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The AGI Chronicles
“He's the author of the AGI Chronicles, a book looking into what is going on within the AI labs, what they're building, whether we should be afraid of it, and of course the potential of this technology.”
Plugged The AGI Chronicles
“You know, when I went in to write the book, my my goal was to tell the history of the last 10 years in AI from sort of the moment that the first large language language models arrived on the scene to today.”
Passing The AGI Chronicles
“I did think about writing the Dario book. I never even got the story into a proposal. Um doing a podcast read it. But Appreciate it. Do it but doing a podcast twice a week, writing the newsletter, uh I I would like to write another book.”
Plugged The AGI Chronicles
“Um a sort of surprising thing, uh which is belief. I think this is something that I realized like halfway through writing this book was that I I thought it was going to be a book about technology, but it was a book about belief.”