← All Podcasts
Dwarkesh Podcast artwork

Dwarkesh Podcast

117 episodes

Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:22:20Feb 13, 2026

Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:49:45Feb 5, 2026

Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:49:53Dec 30, 2025

An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Dwarkesh Podcast

12:28Dec 23, 2025

Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:54:55Dec 19, 2025

Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:36:03Nov 25, 2025

Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:27:47Nov 12, 2025

Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:30:36Oct 31, 2025

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:25:19Oct 17, 2025

Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:20:08Oct 10, 2025

Some thoughts on the Sutton interview

Dwarkesh Podcast

11:39Oct 4, 2025

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:06:22Sep 26, 2025

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:28:28Sep 12, 2025

How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:35:17Sep 5, 2025

Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:44:40Aug 21, 2025

China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:08:22Aug 15, 2025

Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:08:05Aug 7, 2025

Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:55:37Jul 25, 2025

Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:12:41Jul 10, 2025

Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

Dwarkesh Podcast

14:01Jul 3, 2025

A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:33:45Jun 26, 2025

Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:26:43Jun 19, 2025

"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:36:04Jun 12, 2025

Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:29:09May 29, 2025

Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:24:01May 22, 2025

What will automated firms look like?

Dwarkesh Podcast

10:18May 1, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:15:03Apr 29, 2025

Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:23:28Apr 24, 2025

AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

Dwarkesh Podcast

3:08:28Apr 17, 2025

AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

Dwarkesh Podcast

3:04:26Apr 3, 2025

AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton

Dwarkesh Podcast

49:33Mar 25, 2025

Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:52:59Mar 12, 2025

Notes on China

Dwarkesh Podcast

19:31Mar 5, 2025

Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:16:10Feb 19, 2025

Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:14:43Feb 12, 2025

Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:48:14Jan 30, 2025

Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:08:13Jan 23, 2025

Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:12:58Jan 16, 2025

Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Dwarkesh Podcast

59:45Jan 9, 2025

Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:43:37Dec 26, 2024

Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:36:43Nov 13, 2024

@Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:09:57Oct 2, 2024

Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:27:37Sep 18, 2024

David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:56:06Aug 29, 2024

Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:30:35Aug 22, 2024

Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan

Dwarkesh Podcast

2:01:34Jul 24, 2024

Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change

Dwarkesh Podcast

52:52Jun 26, 2024

Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:33:53Jun 11, 2024

Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history

Dwarkesh Podcast

4:31:18Jun 4, 2024

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI

Dwarkesh Podcast

1:35:26May 15, 2024