Dwarkesh Patel
Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast and author of The Scaling Era.
- Dwarkesh Patel is a podcaster and writer who hosts the Dwarkesh Podcast.
- The podcast features long interviews with AI lab leaders, researchers and historians.
- Patel also writes essays on AI progress, which he narrates on the podcast feed.
Why it matters. For people following frontier AI who want long interviews with lab leaders and researchers, and essays that argue openly about AI timelines.
- Hosts
- Dwarkesh Podcast (formerly The Lunar Society)2
- Education
- Computer science at UT Austin (a student there in 2020)2
- Based in
- Bay Area (as of 2024)1
- Recognition
- TIME100 AI 20241
- Book
- The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 (Stripe Press, 2025), with Gavin Leech4
Writing to start with
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2 years ago
Will scaling work? (opens dwarkesh.com)
Essay written as a debate between a believer and a skeptic on whether scaling LLMs leads to AGI.
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15 months ago
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner (opens dwarkesh.com)
Essay arguing that the lack of continual learning holds back today's models.
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last year
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 (opens stripe.press)
Stripe Press book of edited excerpts from the podcast's AI interviews, with added definitions and graphics.
Links
Sources
- Dwarkesh Patel: TIME100 AI 2024 (opens time.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Interview: The Lunar Society with Dwarkesh Patel - The Roots of Progress (opens blog.rootsofprogress.org) read 30 Sep 2026
- About - Dwarkesh Podcast (opens dwarkesh.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 is out now - Stripe Press (opens stripepress.substack.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- The Scaling Era - Stripe Press (opens stripe.press) read 30 Sep 2026
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