All Dwarkesh Podcast Episode Recaps

Browse all episode recaps for Dwarkesh Podcast hosted by Dwarkesh Patel.

• Dylan Patel - Deep Dive on the 3 Big Bottlenecks to Scaling AI Compute (2026-03-13)
• The most important question nobody's asking about AI (2026-03-11)
• The Library of Alexandria isn’t where most ancient knowledge was lost (2026-03-06)
• Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer (2026-03-06)
• The Library of Alexandria isn’t where most ancient knowledge was lost (2026-03-06)
• Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential" (2026-02-13)
• Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space” (2026-02-05)
• Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain (2025-12-30)
• Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) (2025-12-23)
• Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War (2025-12-19)
• Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research (2025-11-25)
• Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI (2025-11-12)
• Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise (2025-10-31)
• Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away (2025-10-17)
• Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable (2025-10-10)
• Some thoughts on the Sutton interview (2025-10-04)
• Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end (2025-09-26)
• Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine (2025-09-12)
• How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine (2025-09-05)
• Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel (2025-08-21)
• China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer (2025-08-15)
• Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard (2025-08-07)
• Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China (2025-07-25)
• Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history (2025-07-10)
• Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner (2025-07-03)
• A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church (2025-06-26)
• Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber (2025-06-19)
• "China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff (2025-06-12)
• Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih (2025-05-29)
• Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken (2025-05-22)
• What will automated firms look like? (2025-05-01)
• Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months (2025-04-29)
• Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper (2025-04-24)
• AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu (2025-04-17)
• AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo (2025-04-03)
• AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton (2025-03-25)
• Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution (2025-03-12)
• Notes on China (2025-03-05)
• Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough (2025-02-19)
• Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI (2025-02-12)
• Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview) (2025-01-30)
• Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview) (2025-01-23)
• Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview) (2025-01-16)
• Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans (2025-01-09)
• Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT (2024-12-26)
• Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary (2024-11-13)
• @Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works (2024-10-02)
• Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin (2024-09-18)
• David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago (2024-08-29)
• Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover (2024-08-22)
• Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan (2024-07-24)
• Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change (2024-06-26)
• Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles (2024-06-11)
• Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history (2024-06-04)