Dean Ball is leaving the podcast
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dean began a new job: senior policy advisor for AI in the Trump White House. I will miss h...
Charles Yang on AI and Science
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Dean and Tim talk to Charles Yang, a former staffer at the Department of Energy who now w...
James Grimmelmann on the copyright threat to AI companies
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James Grimmelmann is a professor of law at Cornell University and a leading expert on copyright law....
Andrew Lee on running an AI email startup
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Lee is the co-founder of Shortwave, an AI-powered email app. He’s also Tim’s brother.Andr...
Dean and Tim on Deep Research and the Paris Summit
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dean and Tim discuss Dean’s trip to Paris for the AI Action Summit, including Vic...
Kashmir Hill on falling love with ChatGPT
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kashmir Hill is a reporter at the New York Times who focuses on the social impacts of new technology...
Sophia Tung on riding a self-driving taxi in China
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim and Dean chat with Sophia Tung, an entrepreneur, engineer, and now YouTuber, about her recent ex...
Dean and Tim on DeepSeek and AI progress
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dean and Tim discuss DeepSeek’s r1 release and what it means. We talk export controls, whether the...
Nathan Labenz on the future of AI scaling
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz is the host of our favorite AI podcast, the Cognitive Revolution. A self-described “...
Lennart Heim on the AI diffusion rule
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lennart Heim is an information scientist and researcher in AI governance at the RAND Corporation and...
Sam Hammond on getting government ready for AI
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Hammond is senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, a right-leaning tech poli...
Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ajeya Cotra works at Open Philanthropy, a leading funder of efforts to combat existential risks from...
Nathan Lambert on the rise of "thinking" language models
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Lambert is the author of the popular AI newsletter Interconnects. He is also a research scien...
Jon Askonas on AI policy in the Trump era
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Askonas, an Assistant Professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, is well connected...