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The Builders· Oct 20, 2026Elon Musk on AI Control, Robot Abundance, and His Regrets About DOGEGuest Elon Musk · Host Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson asks Elon Musk how humanity can remain safe and find purpose as AI grows more capable, and challenges him on politics, empathy, and the future he is building.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 7, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersDemis Hassabis on AGI, Scientific Discovery and the Challenges AheadGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Harry StebbingsThe Google DeepMind CEO discusses compute, continual learning, safety standards and his hopes for AI in science, medicine and energy.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 23, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNature Has Structure: Demis Hassabis on Learnable Reality and AGIGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe Google DeepMind CEO argues that evolution-shaped systems can be modeled by classical learning, and that interactive world models sit on the path to AGI.
3:14:34ENLex Fridman· Jun 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersIf ten things make a problem hard, Terence Tao turns nine of them offGuest Terence Tao · Host Lex FridmanThe Fields Medalist walks Lex Fridman from the Kakeya needle and Navier-Stokes through Lean, Perelman, and why today's AI still cannot smell a dead-end proof.
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Zhang Xiaojun Podcast· Feb 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersZhang Yaqin on the AGI Roadmap: Information, Physical, and Biological IntelligenceGuest 张亚勤 · Host 张小珺Zhang Yaqin divides AGI’s development into information, physical, and biological intelligence. Information intelligence may approach human levels within five years, general-purpose robots may take about ten, and biological intelligence could expand human memory and health in twenty. He also discusses how large models can give autonomous vehicles and robots more data, common sense, and ability to act.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWorking Backwards from AGI: Magic's Five-Million-Token BetHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEric Steinberger wants a coding colleague you trust like a teammate — and a world that is still a good place thirty years after AGI.
1:33:07ZH → EnglishZhang Xiaojun Podcast· Aug 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersLi Guangmi on a Year in Global LLMs: Scaling Law, the AGI Bet, and the US–China LandscapeGuest 李广密 · Host 张小珺Drawing on his front-row view from Silicon Valley, Shixiang Capital founder Li Guangmi looks back at the competition among OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Chinese model companies. He argues that model capability and cost together will shape the next wave of applications, while today’s enormous investments are bets on whether intelligence can keep scaling and how AI will reshape the economy and industry over the long term.
8:37:34ENLex Fridman· Aug 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe first Neuralink patient beat a world record with most of his electrodes goneGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Elon Musk, the Neuralink team, and Noland Arbaugh about a wireless brain implant, the software that rescued it, and why bandwidth is Musk’s bet on living with AI.
2:51:58ENLex Fridman· Jun 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
26:00ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhy a Zapier founder thinks AGI research has been stalled for four yearsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMike Knoop and François Chollet put more than a million dollars on beating ARC-AGI, the eval they say actually measures general intelligence.
2:15:39ENLex Fridman· Jun 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRoman Yampolskiy Puts Superintelligent Ruin at 99.99 PercentGuest Roman Yampolskiy · Host Lex FridmanThe AI safety researcher tells Lex Fridman that controlling AGI is as impossible as a perpetual motion machine, and that tests, open source, and regulation cannot close the gap.
1:55:10ENLex Fridman· Mar 18, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSam Altman Expects the Road to AGI to Be a Power StruggleGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanOn a Friday afternoon in November 2023, OpenAI's board fired its CEO. Four and a half days later he was back, still refusing super-voting control.
2:47:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
19:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe World's Only Capped-Profit CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNo Priors looks back at 2023 through eight conversations on money, intelligence, jobs, and who should put the guardrails on a model.
2:53:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersFear is the civilization killer: Guillaume Verdon on e/acc, thermodynamics, and being unmaskedGuest Guillaume Verdon · Host Lex FridmanThe physicist behind BasedBeffJezos tells Lex Fridman why out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, anonymity, and a meme movement are his answer to AI deceleration.
3:19:21ENLex Fridman· Dec 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersComplexity without copies is just randomness: Lee Cronin on assembly theoryGuest Lee Cronin · Host Lex FridmanThe Glasgow chemist walks Lex Fridman through his controversial Nature paper, a proposed life meter for other worlds, and the claim that the universe is too big to contain its own future.
2:16:46ENLex Fridman· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersPhysics is the law. Everything else is a recommendationGuest Elon Musk · Host Lex FridmanOn his fourth Lex Fridman podcast, Elon Musk runs first-principles math on Gaza, Ukraine, Grok, aliens, and the coming shortage of useful compute per watt.
41:58ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersReliability is the bottleneck. Autonomy is what would make AI feel alive.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilIlya Sutskever talks with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil about AlexNet, OpenAI’s capped-profit bet, why smaller models mainly lose reliability, and the line he draws for digital life.
3:08:46ENLex Fridman· Jun 29, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWho owns the off switch? George Hotz on tinygrad, open-source AI, and GodGuest George Hotz · Host Lex FridmanOn his third Lex Fridman podcast, the comma.ai and tiny corp founder argues that compute, intelligence, and the off switch should live in people's houses, not in a trusted few.
3:11:35ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSearch was always a hack: Marc Andreessen on AI, truth, and the next internetGuest Marc Andreessen · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits down with the Mosaic co-creator and Andreessen Horowitz founder to ask whether Google Search, the browser, and open-source AI survive the decade.
4:14:33ENLex Fridman· May 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
2:30:28ENLex Fridman· Apr 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAI Only Has a Neocortex: Manolis Kellis on Evolutionary Baggage and Superintelligent PartnersGuest Manolis Kellis · Host Lex FridmanOn his fifth Lex Fridman podcast, the MIT computational biologist argues that layered evolutionary history is what makes humans irreplaceable — and that alignment with AI has to run both ways.
35:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.
2:48:12ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Asteroid We Are Building OurselvesGuest Max Tegmark · Host Lex FridmanPhysicist Max Tegmark tells Lex Fridman why a six-month pause on models larger than GPT-4 is not a ban on AI, but a chance to stop a suicide race.Load moreShowing 24 of 77