AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race

According to the episode description, Jordan Schneider talks with Kevin Roose about a new history called AGI Chronicles on OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind, covering belief in AGI, lab leaders' motives, the Manhattan Project analogy, China, Washington and recursive self-improvement.

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The record

Questions
How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading? · What happens when AI helps build more capable AI?
People
Jordan Schneider (Speaks) · Kevin Roose (Speaks, Author, AGI Chronicles) · Noam Shazeer (Mentioned)
What we read
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Found by
The Radar, run of October 12, 2026, via pod-chinatalk (tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record)
Cite this
ChinaTalk, “AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race”, October 8, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/chinatalk-2026-10-08-kevin-roose-agi-chronicles
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