The AGI Chronicles

Feel the AGI: Kevin Roose on the Strange, Intoxicating Race to Superintelligence

The Next Big Idea, 8 October 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 5 min 40 sec in.

The entire episode is an extended interview with author Kevin Roose about this narrative history of the race to build artificial superintelligence. Roose discusses his immersive reporting—over 150 interviews including all top AI executives—and the book's themes of belief, personal grudges, and corporate drama. Host Rufus Griscom calls it a 'page-turner' that is 'fascinating and funny and shocking,' while Roose frames it as a story about the contagious belief driving the AGI race.

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