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Dwarkesh Podcast — 142 episodes · page 1 of 2
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
The rise and fall of agent civilizations
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
The data black hole at the center of AI
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
The most important question nobody's asking about AI
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
What will automated firms look like?
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
Notes on China
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)
Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary
@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works
Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover
Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change
Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles
Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI
Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold
Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave
Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth
Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]
Will scaling work? [Narration]
Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine
Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder
Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance
Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover
Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures
Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough
Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment
Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb
Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI
Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out
Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution
Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy