Dwarkesh Podcast
Also known as The Lunar Society
Long-form interview podcast on AI, science and history, hosted by Dwarkesh Patel.
- Dwarkesh Podcast is a long-form interview show hosted by Dwarkesh Patel.
- AI lab leaders among its guests include Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever and Demis Hassabis.
- Guests also include historians and scientists such as Sarah Paine, David Reich and Terence Tao.
- The feed also carries narrated versions of Patel's own essays.
- Transcripts appear on dwarkesh.com, and the show describes itself as "deeply researched interviews".
Why it matters. For listeners who want long, prepared conversations with the people building frontier AI, next to history and science episodes. Excerpts from its AI interviews were collected in the 2025 Stripe Press book The Scaling Era.
- Started
- 20201
- First episode in feed
- Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas (22 May 2020)1
- Earlier name
- The Lunar Society4
- Episodes in RSS feed
- 141 (30 Sep 2026)1
- Apple Podcasts category
- Technology2
- Book drawn from the show
- The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 (Stripe Press)5
Episodes to start with
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3 years ago
Recorded at OpenAI's San Francisco offices: time to AGI, what comes after generative models and aligning superhuman AI.
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3 years ago
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough (opens dwarkesh.com)
The Anthropic CEO on why models scale so well and what it will take to align them.
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2 years ago
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake (opens dwarkesh.com)
The Naval War College historian on continental versus maritime powers; the first of several Paine episodes.
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2 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters (opens dwarkesh.com)
Meta's CEO on Llama 3, open-sourcing models and energy limits on scaling.
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2 years ago
The former OpenAI researcher on his Situational Awareness essays, national compute clusters and security at AI labs.
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19 months ago
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI (opens dwarkesh.com)
Google's Chief Scientist and a co-inventor of the Transformer on their work from MapReduce to Gemini.
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1 year ago
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end (opens dwarkesh.com)
The 2024 Turing Award winner and author of The Bitter Lesson argues LLMs cannot learn on the job.
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11 months ago
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away (opens dwarkesh.com)
Karpathy on the limits of reinforcement learning, why self-driving took so long, and education.
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7 months ago
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential" (opens dwarkesh.com)
A second Amodei interview on scaling in the RL era and Anthropic's revenue, compute and path to profitability.
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5 months ago
Nvidia's CEO on TPU competition, the chip supply chain and export of AI chips to China.
Links
Sources
- Dwarkesh Podcast (RSS feed) (opens api.substack.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Dwarkesh Podcast on Apple Podcasts (opens podcasts.apple.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- About - Dwarkesh Podcast (opens dwarkesh.com) read 30 Sep 2026
- Interview: The Lunar Society with Dwarkesh Patel - The Roots of Progress (opens blog.rootsofprogress.org) read 30 Sep 2026
- The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 - Stripe Press (opens stripe.press) read 30 Sep 2026
- Dwarkesh Podcast on Spotify (opens open.spotify.com) read 30 Sep 2026
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