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Kevin Roose (born 1987 or 1988) is an American author and journalist. He is the author of three books, and is a technology columnist and podcast host for The New York Times. He wrote a book about Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university known for strict rules imposed on students, and was included on the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
In June 2017, he rejoined The New York Times. His column, "The Shift", focuses on the intersection of technology, business, and culture.
On March 24, 2021, Roose published a column in The New York Times announcing an auction for the column itself to be distributed as an NFT, or non-fungible token, with proceeds going to The New York Times's Neediest Cases Fund. The column sold the following day for $560,000. Immediately after the sale, Roose commented on Twitter, "I'm just staring at my screen laughing uncontrollably".
Kevin was given early access to Bing's ChatGPT-based chatbot and encountered a second personality of the chatbot named "Sydney". He has also written about his experiences with "vibe coding" to generate software without writing code.
Roose's second book, Young Money, follows the beginning of the career of eight financial analysts on Wall Street. It focuses on the difficult and strenuous work environments and what makes the financial industry different after the 2008 financial crisis.
Roose's third book, Futureproof: 9 Rules in the Age of Automation, examines how people and organisations can survive in the machine age. To survive, he believes in the need "to focus on the more human skills that machines can't replace."
Roose and three of his New York Times colleagues earned the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for the story "Ouster at Uber."
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