Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI
Tech journalist Kevin Roose discusses his new book, 'The AGI Chronicles,' which documents the history and rivalries of major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The interview also covers his transition to a new media venture, Machine Gods Media.
Why it matters
As AI becomes central to the global economy, understanding the historical context and the key players behind its development is essential for informed public discourse.
In reality, as WIRED readers know, the story of artificial intelligence stretches back decades. And the work informing today’s generative AI products, from chatbots to agents and beyond, has been more than a decade—of blood, sweat, tears, and furious rivalries—in the making.
It’s that recent history, told through the interweaving stories of three generative AI leaders—OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google—that’s chronicled in Kevin Roose’s compelling new book, The AGI Chronicles. Roose, a longtime tech journalist who most recently served as a columnist and podcast host for The New York Times, conducted more than 150 interviews with AI insiders to compile what he hopes becomes something of a historical document, an accurate, in-depth retelling of the people and the institutions, the bloodbath and the drama, that brought Silicon Valley to where it is to today.
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