High Variance with Danny Buerkli
Episodes
AI Strategy for Middle Powers – with Anton Leicht
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't have a frontier AI lab within your borders, as a country, what exactly is your plan? Anton Leicht — visiting scholar at the Carnegie En...
The Quest for the Perfect Weapon – with Jeff Stern
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Stern — reporter and author of The Warhead — joins Danny Buerkli to talk about the long quest to build the “perfect weapon.” They discuss...
Intelligence Saturation and the Economics of AI – with Ioana Marinescu
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ioana Marinescu — associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, research associate at the NBER, and member of Anthropic's Economic Advisory...
France, Germany, and the State of Europe – with Joseph de Weck
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Germany and France have historically formed the core of Europe and the European Union. Joseph de Weck - political analyst, historian, author, columnis...
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – with Richard Cockett
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every aspect of modernity was shaped by individuals with intellectual roots in Vienna, argues Richard Cockett, author of "Vienna: How the City of Idea...
Labor Market Impacts of AI – with Bharat Chandar
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Which effects of AI are we already seeing in the labor market? And what might be coming down the line? Bharat Chandar, postdoc at Stanford and co-auth...
Improv Wisdom – with Patricia Ryan Madson
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Ryan Madson, professor emerita at Stanford and author of "Improv Wisdom", joins Danny Buerkli to talk about how she got into improv, how she ...
Scenario Planning – with Jamais Cascio
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jamais Cascio, futurist, scenario expert, and author of Navigating the Age of Chaos, joins Danny Buerkli for a deep dive into scenario planning. They ...
Building an Open LLM – with Antoine Bosselut
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antoine Bosselut, Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, joins Danny Buerkli to explain how he and his t...
The Art of Facilitation – with Vishal Jodhani
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vishal Jodhani, a master facilitator, joins Danny Buerkli to talk about what makes facilitation work. They discuss what makes for a good question, how...
State Capacity and Government Reform – with Don Kettl
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don Kettl — prolific scholar of public administration — joins Danny Buerkli talk about state capacity and government reform. They discuss what DOG...
Introducing High Variance with Danny Buerkli
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We live in weird times. The world has become harder to read — more uncertain, more volatile, stranger. High Variance is an interview podcast about ...