Epoch After Hours
Episodes
Are AI benchmarks doomed?
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI benchmarks saturate quickly, struggle to capture what we care about, and cost more than ever to build. But are they doomed? Greg Burnham, who leads...
AI math capabilities could be jagged for a long time – Daniel Litt
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Litt is a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto. He has been a careful observer of AI’s progress toward accelerating mathemat...
The EU and the not-so-simple macroeconomics of AI - Luis Garicano
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Luis Garicano isn’t your usual academic economist. Academically, his theories have heavily influenced how modern economists understand the...
What does economics actually tell us about AGI? – Phil Trammell
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford economist Phil Trammell has been rigorously thinking about the intersection of economic theory and AI (incl. AGI) for over five years, long b...
Forecasting AI progress until 2040
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What will AI progress look like over the next 15 years? Informed by current trends, Epoch AI researchers Jaime Sevilla and Yafah Edelman argue that th...
Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away? Disagreements on AGI Timelines
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When might AI truly transform our world, and what will that transformation look like? Even within our own research team, timelines for AGI differ subs...
AI in 2030, Scaling Bottlenecks, and Explosive Growth
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode of Epoch After Hours, Ege, Tamay and Jaime dig into what they expect AI to look like by 2030; why economists are underestimating ...