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#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
Don Lincoln is a particle physicist at Fermilab who has spent decades working at the frontiers of high energy physics. Thank you for …
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and …
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire. …
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing …
#493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of …
#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
Rick Beato is a music educator, interviewer, producer, songwriter, and a true multi-instrument musician, playing guitar, bass, cello & …
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. …
#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka are machine learning researchers, engineers, and educators. Nathan is the post-training lead at the …
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting …
#488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins
Joel David Hamkins is a mathematician and philosopher specializing in set theory, the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of …
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
Irving Finkel is a scholar of ancient languages and a longtime curator at the British Museum, renowned for his expertise in Mesopotamian …
#486 – Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life
Michael Levin is a biologist at Tufts University working on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation in biological …
#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
David Kirtley is a nuclear fusion engineer and CEO of Helion Energy, a company working on building the world’s first commercial fusion …
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Dan Houser is co-founder of Rockstar Games and is a legendary creative mind behind Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and Red Dead Redemption series of …
#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex
Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist and author who in her books explores human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, the …
#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
Pavel Durov is the founder and CEO of Telegram. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep482-sc …
#481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA
Norman Ohler is a historian and author of “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,” a book that investigates the role of psychoactive …
#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
Dave Hone is a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of numerous scientific papers and …
#479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories
Dave Plummer is a programmer, former Microsoft software engineer (Windows 95, NT, XP), creator of Task Manager, author of two books on …
#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of …
#477 – Keyu Jin: China’s Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism
Keyu Jin is an economist specializing in China’s economy, international macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, and financial policy. …
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and historian specializing in Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out …
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize winner for his groundbreaking work in protein structure prediction using AI. …
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
David Heinemeier Hansson (aka DHH) is a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner & CTO of 37signals that created …
#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Debate on Iran war between Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz. Scott Horton is the author and director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial …
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in …
#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet
Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep471-sc See …
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles
James Holland is a historian specializing in World War II. He hosts a podcast called WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Thank you for …
#469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain
Oliver Anthony is singer-songwriter who first gained worldwide fame with his viral hit Rich Men North of Richmond. He became a voice for …
#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, …
#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming
Tim Sweeney is a legendary video game programmer, founder and CEO of Epic Games that created the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Gears of War, …
#466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a historian of modern China. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: …
#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking
Robert Rodriguez is a legendary filmmaker and creator of Sin City, El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: …
#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism
Dave Smith is a comedian, libertarian, political commentator, and the host of Part of the Problem podcast. Thank you for listening ❤ Check …
#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza
Douglas Murray is the author of On Democracies and Death Cults, The War on The West, and The Madness of Crowds. Thank you for listening ❤ …
#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE
Ezra Klein is one of the most influential voices representing the left-wing of American politics. He is a columnist for the NY Times and …
#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God
ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have …
#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace
Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Hindi, Russian (and soon other languages). …
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. …
#458 – Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America
Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm …
#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom
Jennifer Burns is a historian of ideas, focusing on the evolution of economic, political, and social ideas in the United States in the 20th …
#456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Captions and …
#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations. Thank you for …
#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics
Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. …
#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
Javier Milei is the President of Argentina. This episode is available in both English and Spanish. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our …
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the company that created Claude. Amanda Askell is an AI researcher working on Claude’s character …
#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies
Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and …
#450 – Bernie Sanders Interview
Bernie Sanders is a US Senator from Vermont and a two-time presidential candidate. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: …
#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History
Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost …
#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
Jordan Peterson is a psychologist, author, lecturer, and podcast host. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: …
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Michael Truell, and Sualeh Asif are creators of Cursor, a popular code editor that specializes in AI-assisted …
#446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the Director of the Maya …
#445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War
Vivek Ramaswamy is a conservative politician, entrepreneur, and author of many books on politics, including his latest titled Truths: The …
#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler
Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the …
#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: …
#442 – Donald Trump Interview
Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States and the Republican candidate in the 2024 US Presidential Election. Thank you for …
#441 – Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism
Cenk Uygur is a progressive political commentator and host of The Young Turks. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: …
#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many …
#439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling
Craig Jones is a legendary jiu jitsu personality, competitor, co-founder of B-Team, and organizer of the CJI tournament that offers over $2 …
#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head …
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6
Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive …
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
Ivanka Trump is a businesswoman, real estate developer, and former senior advisor to the President of the United States. Please support this …
#435 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships
Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our …
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
Arvind Srinivas is CEO of Perplexity, a company that aims to revolutionize how we humans find answers to questions on the Internet. Please …
#433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. She is the author of a new book titled “Life as No One Knows It: The …
#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
Kevin Spacey is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, who starred in Se7en, the Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and House of Cards, creating …
#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Please support …
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why …
#429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God
Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. …
#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, author, and host of Mindscape podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: …
#427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
Neil Adams is a judo world champion, 2-time Olympic silver medalist, 5-time European champion, and often referred to as the Voice of Judo. …
#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support this podcast by checking out our …
#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones
Andrew Callaghan is the host of Channel 5 on YouTube, where he does street interviews with fascinating humans at the edges of society, the …
#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame
Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Arab World. Please support this …
#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex
Tulsi Gabbard is a politician, veteran, and author of For Love of Country. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – …
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
Mark Cuban is a businessman, investor, star of TV series Shark Tank, long-time principal owner of Dallas Mavericks, and founder of Cost Plus …
#421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck
Dana White is the CEO and president of the UFC. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – LMNT : …
#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and many other books on war, weapons, …
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support …
#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris
Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political …
#417 – Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
Kimbal Musk is a chef, entrepreneur, and author of The Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking for Your Community. Please support this podcast by checking …
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the …
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on …
#414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom
Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the Tucker Carlson Network and the Tucker …
#413 – Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech
Bill Ackman is an investor who has led some of the biggest and controversial financial trades in history. He is founder and CEO of Pershing …
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
Marc Raibert is founder and former long-time CEO of Boston Dynamics, and recently Executive Director of the newly-created Boston Dynamics AI …
#411 – Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam
Omar Suleiman is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar, civil rights leader, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. …
#410 – Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism
Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The …
#409 – Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man – $55 Million in Bank Fraud
Matthew Cox is a former con man who served 13 years in federal prison for bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and identity theft. He is the author …
#408 – Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen
Tal Wilkenfeld is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist. She has performed with legendary artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, …
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) …
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness
Teddy Atlas is boxing trainer to 18 world champions, ESPN boxing commentator, and host of podcast THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas. Please support …
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. Thank you for listening ❤ Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: …
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – NetSuite : …
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
Lisa Randall is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Babbel : …
#402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special
Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – …
#401 – John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial …
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Thank you for listening ❤ Please support this podcast by …
#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Jared Kushner is a former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump and author of Breaking History. Please support this podcast by checking …
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – LMNT : https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get …
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE – Foundation for Individual Rights and …
#396 – James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love
James Sexton is a divorce attorney and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Eight Sleep : …
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others. …
#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature
Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, …
#393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love
Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our …
#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – …
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine
Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Factor : …
#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us. Please …
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Numerai : …
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. Please support this podcast by …
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
George Hotz is a programmer, hacker, and the founder of comma-ai and tiny corp. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: …
#386 – Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI
Marc Andreessen is the co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape, and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Please …
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Hexclad Cookware : …
#384 – Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love
Matthew McConaughey is an Oscar-winning actor and author of Greenlights. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – …
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Numerai : https://numer.ai/lex – …
#382 – Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un
Bert Kreischer is a comedian, actor, and podcaster. Check him out on Bertcast, 2 Bears 1 Cave, Something is Burning, and the new movie The …
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the …
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Neil Gershenfeld is the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – …
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
Randall Kennedy is a law professor at Harvard and author of many seminal books on race, law, history, culture, and politics. Please support …
#378 – Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars
Anna Frebel is an astronomer and astrophysicist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Hexclad Cookware : …
#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech
Harvey Silverglate is a free speech advocate, co-founder of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Expression, and author of several …
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, theoretical physicist, and the founder of Wolfram Research, a company behind …
#375 – David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism
David Pakman is a left-wing progressive political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show. Please support this podcast by checking out …
#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
Robert Playter is CEO of Boston Dynamics, a legendary robotics company that over 30 years has created some of the most elegant, dextrous, …
#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI
Manolis Kellis is a computational biologist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Eight Sleep : …
#372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design
Simone Giertz is an inventor, designer, engineer, and roboticist famous for a combination of humor and brilliant creative design in the …
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the …
#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
Edward Frenkel is a mathematician at UC Berkeley working on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics. He is the author of Love and …
#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca
Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, explorer, author, filmmaker, real life Tarzan, and founder of Junglekeepers which today protects over …
#368 – Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a researcher, writer, and philosopher on the topic of superintelligent AI. Please support this podcast by checking out …
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please …
#366 – Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love
Dr. Shannon Curry is a clinical and forensic psychologist who conducts research, therapy, and clinical evaluation pertaining to trauma, …
#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Sam Harris is an author, podcaster, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Notion : …
#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage and crisis negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On …
#363 – B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan
Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan, together with Ethan Crelinsten are founders of the B-Team, a legendary jiu jitsu team based in …
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity
Ginni Rometty is a former long-time CEO, president, and chairman of IBM. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – …
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
Aaron Smith-Levin is a former Scientologist, Vice President of the Aftermath Foundation, and host of the Growing Up In Scientology YouTube …
#360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics
Tim Urban is the author of the blog Wait But Why and a new book What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. Please support …
#359 – Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics
Andrew Strominger is a theoretical physicist at Harvard. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Eight Sleep : …
#358 – Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality
Aella is a sex researcher, writer, and sex worker. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – House of Macadamias : …
#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil
Paul Conti is a psychiatrist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – NetSuite : http://netsuite.com/lex to get …
#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
Tim Dodd is host of the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel, where he teaches about rocket engines and all things space travel. Please …
#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of the Cool Worlds YouTube channel. Please …
#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War
Jeremi Suri is a historian at UT Austin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Eight Sleep : …
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
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#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
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#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
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#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
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#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
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#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives
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#327 – GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots
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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
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#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
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#324 – Daniel Negreanu: Poker
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#323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling
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#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
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#320 – Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics
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#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame
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#318 – Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
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#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War
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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history and widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time. Please …
#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
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#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America”. …
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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
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#298 – Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness
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#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West
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#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
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#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
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#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine
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#283 – Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space
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#280 – Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO
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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
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#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
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#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
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#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
Brett Johnson was a US Most Wanted cybercriminal, called the Original Internet Godfather by US Secret Service for building the the first …
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#270 – David Wolpe: Judaism
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#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
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#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse
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#265 – Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling
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#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
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#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
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#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
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#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, …
#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
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#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
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#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
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#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
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#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, …
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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
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#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel
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Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
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New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown
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#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System
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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
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#102 – Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
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#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
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#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
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#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
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#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
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#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
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#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
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#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
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#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
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#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence
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#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game
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#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering
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#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
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#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
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#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science
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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
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#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology
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#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
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#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI
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#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
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#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing
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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
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Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
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Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income
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Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction and Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
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Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics
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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
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Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
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Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
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Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
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Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, Privacy, and Ethics in Machine Learning
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Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
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Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
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Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin
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Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
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George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
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Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO
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Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify
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Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
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Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley
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Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
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Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health
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Gavin Miller: Adobe Research
Gavin Miller is the Head of Adobe Research. Adobe have empowered artists, designers, and creative minds from all professions working in the …
Rajat Monga: TensorFlow
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Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
Chris Lattner is a senior director at Google working on several projects including CPU, GPU, TPU accelerators for TensorFlow, Swift for …
Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, Language, and Sequences
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Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
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Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot
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Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
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Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
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Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
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Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation
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Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
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Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory
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Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
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Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and is one of the top researchers in the world …
Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of AI
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Eric Schmidt: Google
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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror
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Guido van Rossum: Python
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Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning
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Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep …
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason
Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at MIT. He is the author of many books, several of which have had a …
Christof Koch: Consciousness
A conversation with Christof Koch as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube . He is …
Max Tegmark: Life 3.0
A conversation with Max Tegmark as part of MIT course on Artificial General Intelligence. Video version is available on YouTube. He is a …