All Episodes

The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well

AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism

Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica

AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era

Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance

AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?

RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo

AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)

Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems

Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses

Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent

Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...

Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics

Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard

Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI

Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%

AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen

Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models

1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering

AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha

The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test

AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More

Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy

Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research

AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)

Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work

AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)

Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures

Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup

Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd

All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology

The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More

Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform

Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola

"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate

The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking

AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute

Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research

Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve

Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store

It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast

Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson

Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson

Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast

Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey

Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools

Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!

AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF

Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn

Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life

Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath

Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving

Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal

Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post

Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything

Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi

Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi

AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security Founder Alexis Carlier

Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi

The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space

AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws

The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software

AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!

Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity

Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on Bringing AI to Data, Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG & More

AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis

Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS

Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast

Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show

The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS

AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2

AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1

AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley

Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates

Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski

China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk

Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks

AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast

What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit

Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour

AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son

My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast

What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard

More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio

A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry

Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast

A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR

Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee

Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse

AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins

Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI

The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom

Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z)

The Machines Are Taking Our Jobs - Thank God? Emad Mostaque’s Guide to the next 1000 Days

Stripe's Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands

Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave

Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn

User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin

Coaching the Creators: Inside the Minds Building Frontier AI with Executive Coach Joe Hudson

Zvi Mowshowitz on Longer Timelines, RL-induced Doom, and Why China is Refusing H20s