Kevin Roose interviewed 150 AI insiders for The AGI Chronicles, fact-checked with a council of Claudes
every · x · 2026-11-05
Tech journalist Kevin Roose interviewed 150 people at the center of the AI industry for his new book The AGI Chronicles, an account of how modern AI was built. On The Every Podcast he discussed:
- His take on AI risk and the case for mandatory safety testing.
- Industry disclosures in the book, including Dario Amodei's "Big Blob of Compute" memo.
- How a "council of Claudes" helped fact-check the manuscript.
- Getting a secretive industry to open up, and his "weightlifting vs forklifting" rule for what to hand off to AI.
- Launching Machine Gods to reinvent video journalism.
Related event: NYT's Kevin Roose Chronicles the AGI Race in New Book(2 posts)→
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