Kevin Roose ✓

@kevinroose

NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Author of The AGI Chronicles (on sale 10/6, preorder now!)

173 653Followers

3 050Following

1 197Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

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Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose4 Sep

@kevinroose @cwarzel Ya know it can (must) be both, right? 72 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose4 Sep

@cwarzel I’m all for building face-saving ways for the “AI is fake/hype/a corporate psyop” people to come back to reality, but this divide didn’t naturally occur! One side was lied to, over and over again, until it stuck 1.5K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose4 Sep

@cwarzel this is almost entirely the media’s fault imo, our peers have been incredibly cynical about AI, even when (as you suggest) the *actually correct* skeptical take all along was “maybe the labs aren’t lying for profit and this stuff is very dangerous” 2.5K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose4 Sep

imo, i don’t think you need to buy into corporate narratives to be worried about these companies losing control of their own systems…in fact i think taking this seriously is closer to the type of accountability that a lot of skeptics want (me! i’m a skeptic!…of these companies, 10.4K views · 145 likes · 5 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose25 Jan

@kevinroose *describes something dystopian and depressing* "Why isn't everyone doing this!" 14.5K views · 1K likes · 16 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose25 Jan

i want to believe that everyone can learn this stuff. but in the same way that the AI companies that took scaling seriously, started stockpiling GPUs, etc. before 2022 had an ~insurmountable head start over latecomers, it's possible that restrictive IT policies have created a 221.5K views · 656 likes · 39 reposts · 89 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose31 May 2023

@kevinroose The fact they are not laying out what the risks are is very concerning. They are much further along than we know. 5.9K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose30 May 2023

@kevinroose So like, if they actually believe that. And they are the ones building that. Then they could… stop building it. 627 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose30 May 2023

@kevinroose So much airtime given to nebulous future existential harms while the harms that are already happening are largely ignored. https://t.co/oZZ0vdO0QT 12.7K views · 49 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kevin Roose ✓@kevinroose30 May 2023

Breaking: 350+ leading AI researchers (including the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind) have signed a remarkable statement warning that AI poses a “risk of extinction,” and comparing it to pandemics and nuclear weapons. https://t.co/Fllcgzlq0C 969.4K views · 506 likes · 197 reposts · 92 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 974this account4 736median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.14%this account1.78%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.53%this account1.34%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 974	4 736	0.42×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.14%	1.78%	0.64×
Engagement rate	0.53%	1.34%	0.39×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

969.4K30 May

12.7K

627

5.9K31 May

221.5K25 Jan

14.5K

10.4K4 Sep

2.5K

1.5K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.12%30 May

0.46%

1.75%

0.25%31 May

0.36%25 Jan

7.09%

1.56%4 Sep

0.65%

0.40%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.34%.

What the audience does

Likes68.6%2 402 in total

Reposts7.6%265 in total

Replies5.8%202 in total

Quotes9.9%346 in total

Bookmarks8.2%288 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

7 Sep

Daily snapshots since 07 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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