Economist critiques Kevin Roose's new AI book: 'huge cultural gap' in tech journalism
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-17
Scott Cunningham (Afinetheorem) shares mixed thoughts on Kevin Roose's new AI book: he enjoys the wild stories from the interviews, but the opening pages already claim "white collar jobs are disappearing" (empirically untrue, he argues) and feature ketamine-filled parties.
He wonders whether journalists writing about the Industrial Revolution or early computing felt similarly obligated to insert negative claims about social disorder — and notes that even the journalism world's positive AI book shows a huge cultural gap. Still an interesting read, he concludes.
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