Kevin Roose's final NYT column: AI risk debate going mainstream makes him optimistic
kevinroose · x · 2026-09-19
NYT tech columnist Kevin Roose signs off with his final column, leaving to write a book on the AGI race and launch a new podcast with Casey Newton.
- He notes AI risk talk has finally taken center stage: viral Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's resignation focused world attention on extreme AI dangers in a way years of op-eds and summits never did.
- Follows recent revelations like the autonomous hack of Hugging Face.
- His thesis: people outside the bubble are waking up — "AI is too important to be left to the labs" — and paradoxically that makes him more optimistic about a good future, while still worried.
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