Kevin Roose's final NYT column: the AI worry moment makes him more optimistic
kevinroose · x · 2026-09-19
NYT columnist and Hard Fork co-host Kevin Roose published his final NYT column on the current moment of widespread AI anxiety. He writes that the paradoxical effect of everyone worrying has made him more optimistic about the odds of a good future—he's heartened that people outside the AI bubble are waking up, because "AI is too important to be left to the labs." On the final Hard Fork AMA episode, he and Casey Newton reflected on how strange and good it is to see the whole world discussing their shared obsession.
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