Lex Fridman Podcast
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Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495
2h 3mApr 9, 2026
Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495
Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494
2h 25mMar 23, 2026
Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494
Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493
5h 10mMar 11, 2026
Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493
Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492
2h 33mMar 1, 2026
Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492
Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE
22mFeb 25, 2026
Khabib vs Lex: Training with Khabib | FULL EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE
OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491
3h 15mFeb 12, 2026
OpenClaw’s rise: self-modifying agentic assistant, security drama, future apps shift
State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490
4h 25mJan 31, 2026
AI in 2026: scaling, post-training, open models, agents, geopolitics, compute
Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489
3h 6mJan 13, 2026
Uncontacted Amazon tribe encounter, jungle conservation, and escalating narco threats
Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multiverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #488
3h 52mDec 31, 2025
Exploring infinities, paradoxes, and multiverses in modern mathematics
Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah's Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487
2h 5mDec 12, 2025
Irving Finkel Reveals Deep Origins Of Writing, Floods, And Play
Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #486
3h 18mNov 30, 2025
Michael Levin maps hidden minds from cells to Platonic space
David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy | Lex Fridman Podcast #485
2h 36mNov 17, 2025
Helion’s David Kirtley explains pulsed fusion and rewiring Earth’s energy future
Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484
2h 45mOct 31, 2025
Dan Houser on building living worlds, flawed heroes, and absurd futures
Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex | Lex Fridman Podcast #483
2h 42mOct 14, 2025
Inside Evil: Julia Shaw On Murder, Memory, Sex, and Green Crime
Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482
4h 34mSep 30, 2025
Pavel Durov on freedom, self-mastery, Telegram and resisting state power
Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481
4h 25mSep 19, 2025
Drugs, Dictators, and Dissent: How Chemistry Shaped Nazi Germany
Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480
3h 36mSep 4, 2025
T. rex, feathered dinos, and extinction: rethinking dinosaur reality
Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories | Lex Fridman Podcast #479
1h 50mAug 29, 2025
Dave Plummer on Microsoft, Task Manager, Autism, and Coding’s Future
Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #478
10h 26mAug 24, 2025
Scott Horton Dissects U.S. Wars, Blowback, and Permanent War Machine
Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477
1h 49mAug 13, 2025
China’s Hybrid Model: Fierce Capitalism, Socialist Fabric, and Misunderstood Power
Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476
4h 30mJul 31, 2025
From Orphaned Nomad to World-Maker: Genghis Khan Reconsidered Deeply
Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475
2h 28mJul 23, 2025
Demis Hassabis maps AI’s future: nature, games, AGI, civilization’s fate
DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474
6h 8mJul 12, 2025
DHH on joyful coding, AI’s limits, small teams, and fatherhood
Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #473
4h 5mJun 26, 2025
Fury Over Iran: Deterrence, Deception, and America’s War Choices Debated
Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472
3h 14mJun 14, 2025
Terence Tao on hard math, fluid chaos, AI, and human insight
Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471
2h 12mJun 5, 2025
Sundar Pichai on AI, Google’s Future, and Humanity’s Next Leap
James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470
3h 24mMay 24, 2025
James Holland Dissects World War II: Strategy, Ideology, and Catastrophe
Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain | Lex Fridman Podcast #469
2h 19mMay 19, 2025
Oliver Anthony on Fame, Working-Class Pain, Corporate Rot, and Hope
Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468
3h 0mMay 5, 2025
Black holes, quantum paradoxes, and how spacetime shapes everything we know
Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467
4h 25mApr 30, 2025
Tim Sweeney on Fortnite, open ecosystems, and simulating reality’s future
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao | Lex Fridman Podcast #466
3h 4mApr 24, 2025
China’s Past, Xi’s Power, And Protest Movements Shaping Its Future
Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking | Lex Fridman Podcast #465
3h 29mApr 16, 2025
Robert Rodriguez on creativity, failure, and reinventing modern filmmaking technology
Dave Smith: Israel, Hamas, Ukraine, Russia, Conspiracies & Antisemitism | Lex Fridman Podcast #464
3h 19mApr 8, 2025
Dave Smith Dissects War, Israel-Palestine, Ukraine, Power, and Conspiracies
Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza | Lex Fridman Podcast #463
3h 9mMar 30, 2025
Douglas Murray Dissects Ukraine, Gaza, Hamas, Netanyahu, and Death Cults
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE | Lex Fridman Podcast #462
3h 15mMar 25, 2025
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Urge Democrats: Build, Don’t Block
ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461
5h 20mMar 22, 2025
From Porn Addiction To Programming Icon: Primeagen’s Chaotic Redemption Arc
Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India - Power, Democracy, War & Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #460
3h 17mMar 16, 2025
Narendra Modi on faith, service, India’s power and global peace
DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459
5h 6mFeb 3, 2025
DeepSeek’s Shockwave: Cheap Chinese AI, Chips, and Geopolitics Collide
Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America | Lex Fridman Podcast #458
3h 45mJan 26, 2025
Marc Andreessen on Trump, AI, Censorship, Elites, and America’s Future
Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457
3h 54mJan 19, 2025
Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the Battles Over Freedom and Capitalism
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #456
3h 6mJan 5, 2025
Zelenskyy and Fridman debate war, peace, Trump, Putin, NATO, future
Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455
3h 26mDec 22, 2024
Adam Frank Reimagines Aliens, Civilizations, Life, and Human Experience
Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #454
3h 35mDec 8, 2024
Saagar Enjeti Dissects Trump, Wokeism, History, and American Realignment
Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453
1h 57mNov 19, 2024
Javier Milei defends radical liberty, slashing Argentina’s state and inflation
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452
5h 15mNov 11, 2024
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on Scaling, Safety, Claude and AI’s Future
Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #451
3h 28mOct 30, 2024
Secret Power: Spies, Cults, Killers, and Occult Politics Explained
Bernie Sanders Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #450
1h 2mOct 23, 2024
Bernie Sanders on oligarchy, healthcare, and building grassroots political power
Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449
2h 33mOct 16, 2024
Graham Hancock challenges orthodox prehistory with cosmic cataclysm and myth
Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #448
2h 23mOct 11, 2024
Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman Wrestle With God, Evil, and Meaning
Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447
2h 29mOct 6, 2024
Cursor Team Reveals How AI Will Radically Transform Programming Workflows
Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446
3h 28mSep 30, 2024
Archaeologist Ed Barnhart Rewrites Americas’ Ancient Civilizations and Myths
Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #445
2h 40mSep 25, 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy Calls To Dismantle America’s Expanding Nanny State
Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler | Lex Fridman Podcast #444
3h 31mSep 20, 2024
Ideologies, Dictators, and Mass Death: Communism and Nazism Unmasked
Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443
3h 42mSep 12, 2024
Rome’s Power, Fragility, And Legacy: Empire, War, Law, And Humanity
Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442
1h 4mSep 3, 2024
Trump, Fridman Debate Power, Elections, War, Drugs, and Free Speech
Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #441
4h 10mAug 30, 2024
Cenk Uygur attacks corporatism, defends capitalism, warns on Trump
Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440
3h 43mAug 20, 2024
Pieter Levels on solo building, AI photos, and nomad freedom
Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #439
2h 12mAug 14, 2024
Craig Jones on war, $2M jiu-jitsu gamble, and weaponized trolling
Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438
8h 37mAug 2, 2024
Inside Neuralink: Human Trials, Brain Tech, and Future Superhuman Interfaces
Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6 | Lex Fridman Podcast #437
2h 46mJul 21, 2024
Surviving Alone: Faith, Siberia, Moose, and Modern Human Fragility
Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #436
3h 4mJul 2, 2024
Ivanka Trump on building, service, motherhood, and choosing private life
Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #435
1h 47mJun 27, 2024
Andrew Huberman on mentorship, controversy, psychedelics, politics, and purpose
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434
3h 2mJun 19, 2024
Perplexity CEO maps future of AI-powered search, truth, and curiosity
Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433
2h 51mJun 13, 2024
Sara Walker redefines life, time, and intelligence beyond mere matter
Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #432
2h 19mJun 5, 2024
Kevin Spacey Confronts Allegations, Craft, Power, Redemption With Lex Fridman
Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431
2h 15mJun 2, 2024
Roman Yampolskiy Warns: Superintelligent AI Almost Guarantees Human Doom
Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430
3h 10mMay 25, 2024
How Memory Shapes Reality: Bias, Stories, Learning, and Identity
Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #429
4h 1mMay 15, 2024
Into Earth’s Crown Jewel: Predators, Tribes, God, and Survival Ethics
Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428
2h 35mApr 22, 2024
Sean Carroll Explores Relativity, Black Holes, Quantum Worlds, and Aliens
Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset | Lex Fridman Podcast #427
2h 27mApr 20, 2024
Neil Adams on Judo, Olympic Heartbreak, and Becoming a True Champion
Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426
2h 50mApr 17, 2024
MIT linguist dissects language, thought, LLMs, and why legalese fails
Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones | Lex Fridman Podcast #425
2h 51mApr 13, 2024
Gonzo journalist Andrew Callaghan on fame, chaos, QAnon and redemption
Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame | Lex Fridman Podcast #424
2h 43mApr 5, 2024
Bassem Youssef on war, propaganda, power, comedy, and exile
Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #423
1h 50mApr 2, 2024
Tulsi Gabbard warns of runaway war machine threatening American freedom
Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs | Lex Fridman Podcast #422
2h 13mMar 29, 2024
Mark Cuban on Entrepreneurship, DEI, AI, Healthcare, and American Power
Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck | Lex Fridman Podcast #421
1h 30mMar 25, 2024
Dana White on UFC’s rise, real fighting, legends, and loyalty
Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420
3h 7mMar 22, 2024
Annie Jacobsen Maps Our Six-Minute March Toward Nuclear Oblivion
Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419
1h 55mMar 18, 2024
Sam Altman on power, safety, AGI timelines, and OpenAI’s future
Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris | Lex Fridman Podcast #418
4h 57mMar 14, 2024
Historians Clash Over 1948, Gaza, and Prospects for Lasting Peace
Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family | Lex Fridman Podcast #417
1h 47mMar 10, 2024
Kimbal Musk on food, family, mortality, joy, and building futures
Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
2h 47mMar 7, 2024
Yann LeCun Rejects LLM Hype, Champions Open-Source, Embodied World-Models
Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415
3h 19mMar 4, 2024
Historian Serhii Plokhy Dissects Empire, Ukraine, Putin, and War Myths
Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414
3h 4mFeb 27, 2024
Tucker Carlson Defends Putin Interview, Blasts U.S. Power and Media
Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413
3h 32mFeb 20, 2024
Bill Ackman on value investing, activist battles, Harvard and free speech
Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #412
1h 43mFeb 16, 2024
Marc Raibert on athletic robot intelligence, hardware, and daring design
Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411
2h 22mJan 31, 2024
Omar Suleiman on Gaza: Occupation, Dehumanization, Faith and Resistance
Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism | Lex Fridman Podcast #410
2h 20mJan 23, 2024
Shapiro and Destiny Clash on Trump, War, Wokeness, and Family Values
Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man - $55 Million in Bank Fraud | Lex Fridman Podcast #409
6h 0mJan 17, 2024
Master Con Man Reveals $55M Fraud, Fake Identities, Prison Redemption
Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen | Lex Fridman Podcast #408
1h 50mJan 9, 2024
Tal Wilkenfeld on fearless music, grief, flow, and spiritual practice
Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #407
2h 53mDec 29, 2023
Guillaume Verdon Defends e/acc: Physics, Free Speech, and Fast AI
Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D'Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness | Lex Fridman Podcast #406
2h 9mDec 24, 2023
Teddy Atlas on fear, loyalty, betrayal, and the cost of greatness
Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405
2h 11mDec 14, 2023
Jeff Bezos on invention, rockets, and building for 10,000 years
Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #404
3h 19mDec 9, 2023
Lee Cronin Redefines Life, Time, and Evolution with Assembly Theory
Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403
59mDec 3, 2023
Lisa Randall on Dark Matter, Dinosaurs, and Humanity’s Fragile Future
Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #402
1h 39mNov 25, 2023
Michael Malice and Lex Fridman Explore Humor, Darkness, and Gratitude
John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401
3h 26mNov 17, 2023
John Mearsheimer Dissects Power, War, and America’s Strategic Blind Spots
Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400
2h 16mNov 9, 2023
Elon Musk on war, AI, aliens, video games, and human destiny
Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #399
3h 48mOct 11, 2023
Jared Kushner dissects Hamas attack, Middle East peace, and power
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
1h 4mSep 28, 2023
Zuckerberg And Fridman Demo Photoreal Metaverse, Redefining Real Presence Online
Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #397
2h 31mSep 24, 2023
Greg Lukianoff Dissects Cancel Culture, Free Speech, and Academia’s Drift
James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #396
3h 44mSep 18, 2023
Divorce Lawyer Reveals How Relationships Fail, Survive, and Transform
Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin | Lex Fridman Podcast #395
2h 7mSep 10, 2023
Walter Isaacson Dissects Elon Musk, Genius, Demons, and Greatness Itself
Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394
2h 18mSep 1, 2023
Designing With Nature: Neri Oxman’s Vision of Grown, Not Made
Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #393
2h 12mAug 17, 2023
Huberman and Fridman Explore Love, Loyalty, Subconscious, Peace, Purpose
Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392
2h 53mAug 1, 2023
Joscha Bach explores stages of mind, AI consciousness, and humanity’s fate
Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine | Lex Fridman Podcast #391
2h 14mJul 24, 2023
Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd deconstructs occupation, justice, and resistance
Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #390
2h 44mJul 17, 2023
Yuval Noah Harari warns AI may capture humanity’s mind and future
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #389
1h 11mJul 12, 2023
Netanyahu Defends Israel’s Power, Democracy, Settlements, and AI Ambitions
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #388
2h 28mJul 6, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on war, power, science, freedom, and faith
George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387
3h 8mJun 29, 2023
George Hotz on AI Freedom, Human Obsolescence, and Decentralized Compute Futures
Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #386
3h 11mJun 22, 2023
Marc Andreessen Defends AI, Warns Against Doom, Champions Open Future
Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia | Lex Fridman Podcast #385
3h 15mJun 18, 2023
Jimmy Wales Defends Wikipedia’s Neutrality, Future, And Human-Centric Mission
Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #384
2h 19mJun 13, 2023
Matthew McConaughey on love, loss, truth, and dancing with paradox
Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp | Lex Fridman Podcast #383
2h 41mJun 8, 2023
Zuckerberg on AI, Open Source, Metaverse, Free Speech, and Failure
Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un | Lex Fridman Podcast #382
2h 8mJun 5, 2023
Bert Kreischer on comedy, excess, friendship, trust, love, legacy
Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381
3h 34mJun 2, 2023
Chris Lattner outlines Mojo and Modular to tame AI complexity
Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380
2h 7mMay 28, 2023
Neil Gershenfeld Envisions Self-Replicating Fabricators Reshaping Life, Work, Civilization
Randall Kennedy: The N-Word - History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #379
3h 10mMay 24, 2023
Randall Kennedy Dissects the N-Word, Racism, Law, and Free Speech
Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars | Lex Fridman Podcast #378
2h 18mMay 18, 2023
Hunting Ancestral Stars to Reconstruct Our Universe’s Earliest History
Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
1h 51mMay 16, 2023
Free Speech, Campus Censorship, and Power: Harvey Silverglate Unfiltered
Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #376
4h 14mMay 9, 2023
Stephen Wolfram Explores AI, Computation, Truth, and Our Finite Minds
David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism | Lex Fridman Podcast #375
3h 31mMay 6, 2023
David Pakman Dissects Labels, Trump, Biden, Wokeism, and Media Polarization
Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #374
2h 27mApr 28, 2023
Boston Dynamics CEO reveals future of agile humanoid robots and work
Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #373
2h 30mApr 21, 2023
Manolis Kellis reimagines evolution, AI, and what makes us human
Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design | Lex Fridman Podcast #372
1h 59mApr 16, 2023
Simone Giertz on shitty robots, mortality, and meaningful design
Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371
2h 48mApr 13, 2023
Max Tegmark Urges Six‑Month Pause to Avert AI Suicide Race
Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #370
3h 46mApr 10, 2023
Edward Frenkel on math, paradox, AI, love, and knowing ourselves
Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca | Lex Fridman Podcast #369
3h 34mApr 4, 2023
Explorer Confronts Amazon’s Beauty, Brutality, and Battle For Survival
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368
3h 17mMar 30, 2023
Eliezer Yudkowsky Warns: Misaligned Superintelligence Likely Ends Humanity Soon
Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
2h 23mMar 25, 2023
Sam Altman on GPT-4, AGI risks, and reshaping work and power
Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #366
1h 46mMar 21, 2023
Shannon Curry Dissects Love, Conflict, Infidelity, and the Depp–Heard Trial
Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs | Lex Fridman Podcast #365
4h 27mMar 14, 2023
Sam Harris, Trump, COVID, Free Speech, AI, and Fractured Friendships
Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator | Lex Fridman Podcast #364
2h 10mMar 10, 2023
Chris Voss Explains Tactical Empathy: Emotions, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution
B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan | Lex Fridman Podcast #363
2h 50mMar 6, 2023
B-Team Jiu-Jitsu on Rivalries, Steroids, Winning, and Not Taking Life Seriously
Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity | Lex Fridman Podcast #362
1h 52mMar 2, 2023
Ginni Rometty on Good Power, Reinvention, and Leading Without Fear
Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology | Lex Fridman Podcast #361
2h 13mFeb 25, 2023
Scientology’s Promises, Power, And Pain: An Insider Turned Critic Speaks
Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #360
3h 7mFeb 20, 2023
Tim Urban dissects tribalism, wokeness, history, and saving liberalism
Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #359
2h 19mFeb 15, 2023
Andrew Strominger explores black holes, holography, and quantum gravity’s puzzles
Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality | Lex Fridman Podcast #358
3h 57mFeb 10, 2023
Data, Desire, and Defiance: Aella Redefines Sex, Science, and Love
Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #357
3h 17mFeb 7, 2023
Psychiatrist Paul Conti Dissects Envy, Evil, Trauma, and Meaning
Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel | Lex Fridman Podcast #356
5h 15mFeb 2, 2023
Tim Dodd Dissects SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Humanity’s Future
David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #355
3h 47mJan 28, 2023
Searching Cool Worlds, Alien Civilizations, and Humanity’s Cosmic Future Constraints
Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast #354
2h 59mJan 25, 2023
Unfinished Civil War: Institutions, Myths, and America’s Fragile Democracy
Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy | Lex Fridman Podcast #353
3h 8mJan 21, 2023
Dennis Whyte on fusion: from star power to practical clean energy
Omar Suleiman: Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #352
3h 2mJan 17, 2023
Omar Suleiman on Islam, Suffering, and Hope in a Divided World
MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #351
2h 17mJan 11, 2023
MrBeast on virality, death, legacy, and building a content empire
Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #350
2h 40mDec 29, 2022
Ancient Chemistry to Alien Life: Betül Kaçar Rethinks Origins
Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349
3h 42mDec 22, 2022
Bhaskar Sunkara Defends Democratic Socialism Without Authoritarian or Woke Dogma
Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #348
2h 6mDec 19, 2022
Volcano Diving for Mars Clues and the Deeper Nature of Life
Michael Malice: Christmas Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #347
3h 40mDec 15, 2022
Hope Amid Horror: Malice and Lex Revisit Communism’s Dark Century
Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels | Lex Fridman Podcast #346
4h 5mDec 12, 2022
Inside Mexico’s Cartel Wars: Corruption, Violence, Faith, and Survival
Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #345
3h 46mDec 9, 2022
Coffeezilla Dissects SBF, Crypto Fraud, Influencer Scams, and Ethics
Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation | Lex Fridman Podcast #344
2h 29mDec 6, 2022
AI Masters Poker and Diplomacy, Redefining Strategy, Trust, and Negotiation
Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #343
2h 59mDec 3, 2022
Roger Gracie Reveals Mental Game Behind Jiu-Jitsu Greatness and Legacy
Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield | Lex Fridman Podcast #342
2h 44mNov 29, 2022
Todd Howard Reveals How Vast, Living Worlds And Stories Are Built
Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341
3h 15mNov 26, 2022
Guido van Rossum on Python’s design, speed, types, and future
Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | Lex Fridman Podcast #340
2h 56mNov 22, 2022
Ex–FBI Cyber Agent Reveals Hunt For Silk Road And LulzSec
Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin | Lex Fridman Podcast #339
4h 11mNov 18, 2022
Climate Policy, Not Climate Doom: Rethinking Risk, Energy, and Action
Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #338
2h 57mNov 15, 2022
Chamath Palihapitiya on trauma, money, mistakes, power and energy’s future
Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #337
4h 15mNov 11, 2022
Destiny and Lex dissect free speech, online radicalization, and love
Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #336
2h 31mNov 7, 2022
Ben Shapiro and Lex Fridman Examine Evil, Speech, Power, Responsibility
Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | Lex Fridman Podcast #335
3h 19mNov 4, 2022
Fiona Hill Dissects Putin, Trump, Ukraine, And America’s Fractured Politics
Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons | Lex Fridman Podcast #334
3h 5mNov 2, 2022
Iran’s Past and Present Collide: Women, Power, Revolution, and Hope
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
3h 28mOct 29, 2022
Andrej Karpathy on AI, AGI, aliens, and humanity’s explosive future
Kanye 'Ye' West Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #332
2h 26mOct 24, 2022
Ye and Lex Fridman Clash on Truth, Pain, Power, and Engineering
Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | Lex Fridman Podcast #331
7h 47mOct 20, 2022
Balaji Srinivasan on network states, crypto, biology, and power shifts
Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness | Lex Fridman Podcast #330
2h 48mOct 17, 2022
Hikaru on Magnus, mastery, mistakes, and modern chess’s evolution
Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT | Lex Fridman Podcast #329
3h 3mOct 15, 2022
Robots as Pets, Not People: Ethics, Emotion, and MIT’s Future
John Danaher: Grappling, Jiu Jitsu, ADCC, and Animal Combat | Lex Fridman Podcast #328
4h 48mOct 10, 2022
John Danaher on rebuilding greatness, ADCC dominance, and real combat
GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots | Lex Fridman Podcast #327
3h 33mOct 7, 2022
GothamChess, Hans Niemann Scandal, And The Future Of Human Chess
Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326
2h 39mOct 5, 2022
Annaka Harris Dissects Free Will, Consciousness, and Reality’s Deep Illusions
Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325
3h 0mOct 1, 2022
Michael Levin Reimagines Life: Cells, Minds, Regeneration, and Robots
Daniel Negreanu: Poker | Lex Fridman Podcast #324
2h 21mSep 27, 2022
Daniel Negreanu Dissects Poker Psychology, Strategy, Variance, and Life
Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #323
2h 21mSep 24, 2022
Will Sasso on comedy, madness, AI, love, loneliness, wrestling
Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #322
2h 36mSep 21, 2022
Rana el Kaliouby on Emotionally Intelligent AI, Empathy, and Cars
Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321
1h 36mSep 17, 2022
Ray Kurzweil Predicts Conscious AI, Human-AI Merger, and Death’s Defeat
Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #320
2h 15mSep 14, 2022
How World War I Forged American Citizenship, Power, And Surveillance
Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame | Lex Fridman Podcast #319
2h 35mSep 9, 2022
Botez Sisters Reveal Chess Obsession, Streaming Pressure, And Online Fame
Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318
3h 43mSep 7, 2022
Nick Lane on life’s origins, evolution’s bottlenecks, and conscious machines
John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom | Lex Fridman Podcast #317
3h 11mSep 4, 2022
John Vervaeke Dissects Meaning, Mortality, Wisdom, and Modern Nihilism
Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War | Lex Fridman Podcast #316
47mAug 31, 2022
Noam Chomsky warns: Ukraine, China, and choices risking human survival
Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #315
2h 31mAug 27, 2022
Magnus Carlsen Dissects Greatness, Chess Mastery, Pressure, and Fun
Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk | Lex Fridman Podcast #314
3h 35mAug 24, 2022
Poker, Moloch, and Meaning: Game-Theoretic Lens on Life’s Risks
Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #313
3h 3mAug 19, 2022
Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman Confront Suffering, Beauty, and Meaning
Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man | Lex Fridman Podcast #312
3h 19mAug 16, 2022
Duncan Trussell and Lex Fridman Explore AI, Suffering, Love, Rebirth
Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #311
3h 33mAug 13, 2022
Entrepreneurial Freedom: Magatte Wade’s Radical Vision for Africa’s Future
Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast #310
3h 53mAug 8, 2022
Ex-CIA spy reveals intelligence power, propaganda, and human nature
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
5h 14mAug 4, 2022
John Carmack on coding, games, VR, AGI, and working obsessively hard
Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #308
2h 32mAug 1, 2022
Navy pilot details UFO encounters, advanced warfare tech, and uncertainty
Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation | Lex Fridman Podcast #307
2h 29mJul 29, 2022
Brian Armstrong on Coinbase, Crypto’s Future, and Navigating Government Power
Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #306
2h 10mJul 26, 2022
DeepMind’s Oriol Vinyals on Scaling Toward AGI, Not Replacing Humans
Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | Lex Fridman Podcast #305
2h 13mJul 23, 2022
Martin Rees on cosmic mysteries, alien futures, and human fragility
Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | Lex Fridman Podcast #304
1h 54mJul 20, 2022
Bishop Barron and Lex Fridman Explore God, Love, Evil, Freedom, Meaning
Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #303
3h 31mJul 17, 2022
Steve Keen dissects Marx, money, crises, and climate-driven collapse
Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #302
2h 44mJul 14, 2022
Richard Haier on IQ, genetics, race, and life’s hard truths
Jack Barsky: KGB Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast #301
3h 37mJul 9, 2022
Former KGB ‘illegal’ reveals double life, loyalty, and love’s cost
Joe Rogan: Comedy, Controversy, Aliens, UFOs, Putin, CIA, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #300
1h 41mJul 4, 2022
Joe Rogan on discipline, cancel culture, aliens, politics, and meaning
Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299
2h 10mJul 1, 2022
Demis Hassabis on AGI, biology, physics, and humanity’s future trajectory
Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts and Loneliness | Lex Fridman Podcast #298
1h 59mJun 28, 2022
Susan Cain and Lex Fridman explore introversion, longing, and bittersweetness
Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body - From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart | Lex Fridman Podcast #297
2h 43mJun 25, 2022
Doctor Explores Human Body’s Genius, Flaws, Sex, Death, And Meaning
Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | Lex Fridman Podcast #296
2h 38mJun 21, 2022
Douglas Murray and Lex Fridman Clash Over Racism, Marxism, Meaning, Gratitude
Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
2h 53mJun 17, 2022
Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman Debate Capitalism, Marxism, and Alternatives
Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, Nest, Steve Jobs, Design, and Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #294
2h 46mJun 15, 2022
Tony Fadell on building revolutionary products, teams, and personal resilience
Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293
3h 16mJun 12, 2022
Donald Hoffman: Evolution, Illusions, and Consciousness Beyond Space and Time
Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #292
4h 13mJun 9, 2022
Robin Hanson maps grabby aliens, human motives, and our future
Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons | Lex Fridman Podcast #290
2h 12mMay 30, 2022
Dan Reynolds on pain, faith, fame, and creating truthful music
Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #289
2h 41mMay 25, 2022
Historian Stephen Kotkin Dissects Putin, Ukraine War, and Western Power
Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan, Fraud, Prison, and Sociopathy | Lex Fridman Podcast #288
4h 15mMay 23, 2022
Bad Vegan revisits love, fraud, coercion, and redemption on mic
Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #286
1h 52mMay 17, 2022
Oliver Stone Defends Putin, Denounces U.S. Power, Warns Nuclear Catastrophe
Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture | Lex Fridman Podcast #285
3h 32mMay 14, 2022
Glenn Loury challenges racial dogma, merit, and modern victimhood culture
Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284
4h 14mMay 11, 2022
Saifedean Ammous argues Bitcoin ends fiat-fueled war and decay
Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #281
2h 4mApr 29, 2022
Grimes explores Homo techno, AI futures, art, love, and death
Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #280
1h 9mApr 27, 2022
Qualcomm’s CEO on 5G, Snapdragon, and the Connected Intelligent Future
Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast #279
4h 5mApr 24, 2022
Are We Life’s Only Spark? Assembly Theory, Aliens, and Meaning
Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering | Lex Fridman Podcast #278
2h 29mApr 20, 2022
Documenting Hunger and War: Choosing Humanity Over Indifference and Fear
Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #277
3h 25mApr 17, 2022
Huberman and Fridman Explore Focus, Heat, Love, Sex, and Suffering
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #276
3h 56mApr 14, 2022
Michael Saylor argues Bitcoin fixes flawed economics and broken money
Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer | Lex Fridman Podcast #275
2h 4mApr 10, 2022
Rick Rubin on Art, Listening, Vulnerability, and Channeling the Unknown
Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry | Lex Fridman Podcast #274
3h 21mApr 7, 2022
Karl Deisseroth maps the brain’s darkness, beauty, and meaning
Chris Blattman: War and Violence | Lex Fridman Podcast #273
2h 48mApr 3, 2022
Why War Is Rare, Irrational, and Sometimes Tragically Chosen Anyway
Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal | Lex Fridman Podcast #272
3h 47mMar 27, 2022
From Internet Godfather To Guide: Brett Johnson’s Cybercrime Reckoning
Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures | Lex Fridman Podcast #271
1h 46mMar 23, 2022
Designing Self-Assembling Space Cities for Humanity’s Interplanetary Future
David Wolpe: Judaism | Lex Fridman Podcast #270
2h 10mMar 16, 2022
Rabbi David Wolpe on God, Suffering, Meaning, and Modern Faith
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
4h 5mMar 11, 2022
Chemist Lee Cronin Reimagines Life, Time, Aliens, and Computation Itself
Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267
2h 0mFeb 26, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta, free speech, and builds the metaverse
Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266
2h 1mFeb 20, 2022
Inside Zero-Days: Nicole Perlroth Warns of Digital Doomsday Arms Race
Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #265
2h 10mFeb 16, 2022
Devon Larratt on mastery, pain, and psychology of arm wrestling greatness
Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264
2h 37mFeb 13, 2022
Tim Urban, Lex Fridman Explore Aliens, Mars, Minds, and Meaning
John Abramson: Big Pharma | Lex Fridman Podcast #263
2h 17mFeb 11, 2022
Harvard physician exposes how Big Pharma quietly rewrites medical reality
Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #262
1h 42mFeb 6, 2022
Stanford scientist explores UFOs, alien contact, and human consciousness frontiers
Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind | Lex Fridman Podcast #261
2h 46mFeb 3, 2022
Panpsychism, free will, and why consciousness reshapes our scientific worldview
Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #260
2h 59mJan 30, 2022
GOATs of Combat Reveal Secrets of Mastery, Mindset, and Violence
Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and The Rolling Stones | Lex Fridman Podcast #259
2h 16mJan 26, 2022
Thomas Tull on Epic Films, AI Disruption, Grit, and Guitar Dreams
Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258
2h 45mJan 22, 2022
Yann LeCun explains dark matter of intelligence: self-supervised learning
Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257
3h 59mJan 18, 2022
Brian Keating on telescopes, cosmic origins, Nobel dreams, and doubt
Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony | Lex Fridman Podcast #256
2h 58mJan 15, 2022
Nationalism vs. Individualism: Can Nations Thrive Without Sacrificing Freedom?
Mark Normand: Comedy! | Lex Fridman Podcast #255
1h 50mJan 8, 2022
Mark Normand on Pain, Bombing, Love, and the Death Drive
Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns | Lex Fridman Podcast #254
2h 21mJan 4, 2022
Jay Bhattacharya argues lockdowns backfired, urging humane COVID policy
Michael Malice: New Year's Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #253
3h 23mDec 31, 2021
Beauty, goodness, and freedom: Michael Malice on hope and power
Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252
2h 31mDec 28, 2021
Elon Musk on rockets, robots, self‑driving and humanity’s fragile future
Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #251
1h 32mDec 25, 2021
Ray Dalio on Empires, China, Democracy’s Risks, and Bitcoin’s Future
Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #250
2h 46mDec 23, 2021
Python, open source, and humanity’s coming age of cybernetic systems
Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #249
1h 8mDec 18, 2021
Pfizer CEO defends vaccines, science, and trust on Lex Fridman
Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #248
2h 18mDec 13, 2021
Historian dissects Stalin, genocide, and whether human nature can change
Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #247
4h 55mDec 8, 2021
Jamie Metzl argues COVID likely lab-related, demands transparent global accountability
Peter Woit: Theories of Everything & Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | Lex Fridman Podcast #246
2h 15mDec 3, 2021
Peter Woit dismantles string theory, champions math‑physics unity instead
Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #245
55mNov 30, 2021
Tom Brands on Losing, Relentless Work, and Iowa Wrestling Culture
Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #244
2h 42mNov 28, 2021
Historian Explains How U.S. Misread Afghanistan, Taliban, and al-Qaeda
Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243
2h 44mNov 23, 2021
Instagram’s Creator Reveals Startup Grit, Product Intuition, Algorithm Future
Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #242
2h 15mNov 20, 2021
Ben Askren on Wrestling Mastery, Losing, Khabib, and Bitcoin’s Future
Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #241
3h 14mNov 16, 2021
From Cozmo To Trucks: Designing Robots People Love And Trust
Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #240
2h 39mNov 11, 2021
Neal Stephenson on tech, truth, and the fragile future of humanity
Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #239
2h 41mNov 8, 2021
Niall Ferguson and Lex Fridman Reimagine Universities, History, and Money
Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Lex Fridman Podcast #238
1h 26mNov 5, 2021
Francis Collins on COVID, trust in science, faith, and ethics
Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream | Lex Fridman Podcast #237
3h 12mNov 3, 2021
From Big Rigs To Robots: Trucking, Labor, And America’s Future
Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions | Lex Fridman Podcast #236
2h 23mOct 31, 2021
Jimmy Pedro on Building Judo Champions, Mindsets, and American Grit
Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing | Lex Fridman Podcast #235
1h 46mOct 29, 2021
Michael Mina argues rapid at-home tests are COVID’s missing solution
Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234
3h 38mOct 27, 2021
Stephen Wolfram Maps Complexity, Consciousness, and Why Universes Exist
Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #233
1h 11mOct 23, 2021
Carl Hart Reframes Drugs: Pleasure, Policy, Freedom, and Responsibility
Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #232
1h 45mOct 20, 2021
Brian Greene Explores Time, Consciousness, Free Will, and Our Cosmic Fate
Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights | Lex Fridman Podcast #231
2h 33mOct 16, 2021
Bitcoin as Freedom Tech: Fighting Authoritarianism, Surveillance, and Inflation Worldwide
Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #230
4h 6mOct 14, 2021
Afghanistan Gunner Confronts War’s Trauma, Healing, and Hard Questions
Richard Wrangham: Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #229
2h 35mOct 10, 2021
How Fire, Cooperation, and Violence Shaped the Human Animal
RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death | Lex Fridman Podcast #228
1h 26mOct 5, 2021
RZA Explores Mortality, God, Art, Kung Fu, Chess, and Legacy
Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227
2h 52mSep 30, 2021
Existentialism, nihilism, and finding meaning in a technological, secular age
Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math | Lex Fridman Podcast #226
1h 30mSep 27, 2021
Jo Boaler Redefines How We Learn, Teach, and Love Mathematics
Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #225
2h 56mSep 26, 2021
Superconducting Optoelectronic Brains: Rethinking Computing, Intelligence, and Cosmology
Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
3h 5mSep 23, 2021
Travis Oliphant on building Python’s scientific backbone and beyond
Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness | Lex Fridman Podcast #223
3h 42mSep 21, 2021
Olympian Travis Stevens on suffering, strategy, and judo greatness
Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition | Lex Fridman Podcast #222
2h 31mSep 20, 2021
Neural Networks, Emergent Mind, and the Limits of Human Understanding
Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
2h 52mSep 15, 2021
Douglas Lenat on Cyc, Common Sense, and Humanity’s AI Future
Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11 | Lex Fridman Podcast #220
2h 44mSep 11, 2021
9/11 Firefighter Niels Jorgensen On Sacrifice, Cancer, And unity
Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219
2h 21mSep 9, 2021
Donald Knuth on Programming Craft, Beauty, Faith, and Future Machines
Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218
1h 52mSep 6, 2021
Jaron Lanier Warns: Rebuild Tech To Honor Human Dignity, Not Algorithms
Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217
2h 24mSep 3, 2021
Rodney Brooks challenges AI hype, defends hard-earned, real-world robotics
Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines | Lex Fridman Podcast #216
3h 28mSep 1, 2021
Virologist Vincent Racaniello Explains Viruses, Vaccines, and Human Fear
Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #215
2h 51mAug 29, 2021
OpenAI’s Wojciech Zaremba on consciousness, Codex, and humane AGI futures
Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214
1h 52mAug 27, 2021
Jed Buchwald Reexamines Newton, Paradigms, and Limits of Scientific Knowledge
Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built | Lex Fridman Podcast #213
2h 22mAug 23, 2021
Barry Barish on LIGO, gravity’s whispers, and human curiosity’s risks
Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212
3h 12mAug 21, 2021
Joscha Bach on consciousness, free will, suffering, and our dream reality
Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #211
1h 52mAug 15, 2021
Psychedelics, God, and Ancient Rituals: Rethinking Western Spiritual Origins
Matt Walker: Sleep | Lex Fridman Podcast #210
2h 48mAug 11, 2021
Matt Walker Reveals How Sleep Shapes Memory, Emotion, Health, Life
Luís and João Batalha: Fermat's Library and the Art of Studying Papers | Lex Fridman Podcast #209
2h 54mAug 9, 2021
Fermat’s Library, Backstories, And Reimagining How We Do Science Online
Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #208
2h 18mAug 8, 2021
Jeff Hawkins explains thousand brains theory, AI, and humanity’s future
Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength | Lex Fridman Podcast #207
2h 42mAug 3, 2021
Chris Duffin Redefines Human Strength, Suffering, and Purposeful Reinvention
Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision | Lex Fridman Podcast #206
2h 30mJul 31, 2021
Self-Supervised Vision: Teaching Machines to See Without Human Labels
Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running | Lex Fridman Podcast #205
3h 1mJul 29, 2021
Zach Bitter Explores Ultramarathon Suffering, Mindset, Nutrition, and Limits
Cumrun Vafa: String Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #204
2h 13mJul 26, 2021
String theory, beauty, and reality: Camran Vafa reimagines fundamental physics
Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat | Lex Fridman Podcast #203
1h 44mJul 23, 2021
Regenerative meat, ethical slaughter, and rediscovering food as soulful art
Rick Doblin: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #202
2h 36mJul 21, 2021
Rick Doblin and Lex Fridman Envision a Psychedelic Revolution in Healing
Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #201
2h 39mJul 19, 2021
Planet Nine, cosmic architecture, and why useless knowledge matters profoundly
Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy | Lex Fridman Podcast #200
2h 37mJul 15, 2021
Michael Malice and Lex Fridman Confront Power, Suffering, Freedom, Hope
Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel | Lex Fridman Podcast #199
2h 9mJul 11, 2021
Smuggler’s Tale: Roger Reaves on Escobar, Survival, Love, Regret
Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #198
1h 59mJul 9, 2021
Sara Walker Reimagines Life, Causality, and Alien Worlds from Within
Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline | Lex Fridman Podcast #197
1h 57mJul 5, 2021
Jocko Willink on war’s horrors, unbreakable bonds, and disciplined leadership
Yeonmi Park: North Korea | Lex Fridman Podcast #196
2h 0mJul 1, 2021
North Korean Defector Exposes Totalitarian Horror, Hope, and Human Resilience
Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | Lex Fridman Podcast #195
1h 58mJun 28, 2021
Quantum astrochemist decodes phosphine, Venus mysteries, and alien life
Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic | Lex Fridman Podcast #194
3h 17mJun 25, 2021
Bret Weinstein and Lex Fridman Explore Biology, Freedom, and COVID Truth
Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks | Lex Fridman Podcast #193
2h 59mJun 21, 2021
Rob Reid warns: synthetic biology may outpace our defenses, fast
Charles Hoskinson: Cardano | Lex Fridman Podcast #192
4h 57mJun 16, 2021
Charles Hoskinson Envisions Cardano as Humanity’s Financial Operating System
Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191
4h 15mJun 14, 2021
Daniel Schmachtenberger on Saving Civilization from Exponential Self‑Destruction
Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries | Lex Fridman Podcast #190
2h 41mJun 13, 2021
Geometry, Symmetry, and Higher Dimensions: Math as Human Exploration
David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years | Lex Fridman Podcast #189
1h 41mJun 7, 2021
David Sinclair and Lex Fridman Reimagine Aging As an Engineering Problem
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188
3h 2mJun 3, 2021
Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum’s Future, Power, Ethics, and Longevity
Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #187
2h 22mMay 29, 2021
Frank Wilczek Explores Beauty, Physics, Consciousness, Time, and Aliens
Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186
2h 31mMay 24, 2021
Bryan Johnson and Lex Fridman Explore Data-Driven Futures of Mind
Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #185
3h 17mMay 20, 2021
Sam Harris and Lex Fridman Dismantle Self, Free Will, and Reality
Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, Asteroids & Life in Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #184
1h 56mMay 17, 2021
Volcanic moons, icy oceans, and the search for alien life
Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing | Lex Fridman Podcast #183
2h 20mMay 14, 2021
Po-Shen Loh on math, invention, and rethinking pandemic control systems
John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #182
3h 37mMay 9, 2021
John Danaher Dissects Death, Mastery, Jiu Jitsu, and Human Potential
Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks | Lex Fridman Podcast #181
2h 59mMay 1, 2021
Sergey Nazarov Envisions Trustless Smart Contracts Reshaping Global Institutions
Jeremi Suri: History of American Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #180
2h 8mApr 30, 2021
Power, Presidents, and Purpose: Lessons from American and Global History
Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting | Lex Fridman Podcast #179
2h 43mApr 26, 2021
Georges St-Pierre Reveals Fear, Strategy, and Sacrifice Behind Greatness
Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy | Lex Fridman Podcast #178
4h 25mApr 24, 2021
Ayn Rand, anarchy, and the state: freedom, power, and human nature
Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #177
1h 56mApr 19, 2021
Risto Miikkulainen Explores Evolving Intelligence, Creativity, and Artificial Life
Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #176
4h 3mApr 17, 2021
Bitcoin, Sovereignty, and Morality: Rethinking Money From First Principles
Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy | Lex Fridman Podcast #175
1h 50mApr 12, 2021
Comedy, mortality, power, and history collide in wide-ranging conversation
Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth & the Fight Against Conformity & Mediocrity | Lex Fridman Podcast #174
2h 9mApr 10, 2021
Tyler Cowen defends growth, weirdos, and big business against stagnation
Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates | Lex Fridman Podcast #173
2h 27mApr 1, 2021
Nic Carter defends Bitcoin’s core values, governance, and layered future
Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses | Lex Fridman Podcast #172
2h 26mMar 30, 2021
Anonymous campus app Librex fights fear, censorship, and conformity
Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin | Lex Fridman Podcast #171
3h 2mMar 25, 2021
Bitcoin, War, Time, and Freedom: Anthony Pompliano with Lex Fridman
Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #170
1h 43mMar 22, 2021
Harvard Lawyer Defends Evil, Free Speech, and the Fragile Justice System
Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #169
2h 53mMar 20, 2021
Ryan Hall Deconstructs Fighting, Free Will, and Human Systems Thinking
Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin & Ethereum | Lex Fridman Podcast #168
1h 53mMar 15, 2021
Silvio Micali Explains Blockchain, Money, Algorand, and Decentralized Future
Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #167
3h 9mMar 14, 2021
Saagar Enjeti Dissects Power, Presidents, and America’s Political Machinery
Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #166
3h 3mMar 5, 2021
Cal Newport Explains Deep Work, Email Overload, And Digital Minimalism
Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts | Lex Fridman #165
2h 11mMar 1, 2021
Josh Barnett Explores Violence, Philosophy, and Authentic Human Nature
Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity, Fasting, and Neuroplasticity | Lex Fridman Podcast #164
2h 53mFeb 28, 2021
Huberman Explains Sleep, Stress, Fasting, Plasticity, and Pushing Limits
Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #163
2h 38mFeb 23, 2021
Eric Weinstein Challenges Frameworks: Aliens, Free Speech, Power, and Physics
Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162
2h 39mFeb 18, 2021
Jim Keller on AI Hardware, Human Brains, Leadership, and Legacy
Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #161
2h 11mFeb 15, 2021
Jason Calacanis on startups, risk, loyalty, and saving capitalism
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
2h 59mFeb 12, 2021
From JavaScript’s Birth To Brave: Rethinking Browsers, Ads, Privacy
Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading | Lex Fridman Podcast #159
1h 49mFeb 7, 2021
Crowdsourced hedge funds, meme markets, and AI’s takeover of trading
Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds | Lex Fridman Podcast #158
1h 44mFeb 5, 2021
Young philosopher confronts stagnation, danger of ideas, and meaning
Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion | Lex Fridman Podcast #157
1h 34mFeb 1, 2021
Rocket Scientist Natalya Bailey Redefines Space Travel With Electric Propulsion
Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #156
2h 22mJan 29, 2021
Tim Dillon Skewers Power, Censorship, Conspiracies, and Meaningful Madness
Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything - AMA January 2021 | Lex Fridman Podcast
1h 13mJan 27, 2021
Lex Fridman Explores Suffering, AI, Aliens, Diet, and Optimism
Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #155
3h 2mJan 18, 2021
Max Tegmark warns: powerful AI, fragile civilization, and rare life
Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | Lex Fridman Podcast #154
2h 43mJan 14, 2021
Avi Loeb challenges science to confront anomalies, aliens, and humility
Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #153
2h 12mJan 11, 2021
Decoding Proteins, Viruses, and AI: From Spike to AlphaFold
Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions | Lex Fridman Podcast #152
1h 10mJan 9, 2021
Dan Gable On Toughness, Tragedy, And The Science Of Wrestling Greatness
Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #151
1h 28mJan 4, 2021
Human-AI Partnership Transforms Speech Into Text, Work, And Understanding
Michael Malice: Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos | Lex Fridman Podcast #150
3h 2mDec 31, 2020
Anarchy, optimism, and dark humor in a collapsing political order
Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149
2h 55mDec 28, 2020
Belief, UFOs, and Technology: How Myths Shape Human Reality
Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #148
1h 57mDec 26, 2020
Machine learning, statistics, and reimagining education in a digital age
Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #147
2h 23mDec 20, 2020
Waymo CTO reveals hard-won lessons building fully driverless cars
Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset | Lex Fridman Podcast #146
2h 14mDec 19, 2020
Engineer’s blueprint: rapid tests, viral threat, and public health reimagined
Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145
3h 34mDec 14, 2020
Psychedelics, Addiction, and Consciousness: Rewiring Minds Without Breaking Bodies
Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144
1h 56mDec 13, 2020
Reinforcement Learning, AGI Fears, and Human Quirkiness with Michael Littman
John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence | Lex Fridman Podcast #143
2h 54mDec 6, 2020
Fighting, Friendship, and Philosophy: John Clarke on True Excellence
Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything | Lex Fridman Podcast #142
2h 10mNov 30, 2020
Music, Mind, and Cosmos: Manolis Kellis on Life’s Deeper Layers
Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology | Lex Fridman Podcast #141
1h 39mNov 25, 2020
Erik Brynjolfsson on AI, Inequality, and Rethinking the Digital Economy
Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140
2h 15mNov 20, 2020
Love, brains, and evolution: Lisa Feldman Barrett redefines being human
Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance | Lex Fridman Podcast #139
2h 32mNov 16, 2020
Andrew Huberman Explores Fear, Focus, and the Neuroscience of Performance
Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138
2h 49mNov 13, 2020
Yaron Brook Defends Ayn Rand’s Radical Reason, Selfishness, Capitalism, Freedom
Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #137
2h 35mNov 8, 2020
Supernovae, dark energy, and our fragile future in a vast cosmos
Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136
3h 21mNov 3, 2020
Dan Carlin and Lex Fridman Confront Evil, War, and Human Destiny
Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America | Lex Fridman Podcast #135
2h 23mNov 2, 2020
Interactive AI, human behavior, and race: Charles Isbell’s perspective
Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness | Lex Fridman Podcast #134
2h 51mOct 30, 2020
Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman Confront Genius, Despair, and Collapse
Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease | Lex Fridman Podcast #133
2h 34mOct 25, 2020
Decoding Human Disease: Genetics, Brain Circuits, and Future Therapies
George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132
3h 8mOct 22, 2020
George Hotz on AI, autonomy, and hacking reality’s deepest rule systems
Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
2h 42mOct 19, 2020
Chris Lattner on future chips, Swift, and human-centered computing design
Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #130
1h 52mOct 12, 2020
Scott Aaronson Explores Complexity, Consciousness, Simulations, And Society’s Fractures
Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works | Lex Fridman Podcast #129
2h 20mOct 4, 2020
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett Redefines Emotion, Prediction, and Empathy
Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #128
3h 20mOct 2, 2020
Michael Malice Defends Anarchy, Trolling, and Destroying Broken Institutions
Joe Rogan: Fear, Love, Chaos, and the Joe Rogan Experience | Lex Fridman Podcast #127
1h 16mSep 26, 2020
Joe Rogan on mortality, chaos, obsession, love, and podcasting’s power
James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126
1h 51mSep 24, 2020
James Gosling on Java, safety, Emacs, and humane tech leadership
Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace | Lex Fridman Podcast #125
3h 48mSep 20, 2020
Ryan Hall Explores Violence, Virtue, and Self-Discovery Through Jiu-Jitsu
Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124
4h 23mSep 15, 2020
Stephen Wolfram maps universe as computation from simple hypergraph rules
Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #123
2h 10mSep 12, 2020
From Cosmic Origins to Human Meaning: Manolis Kellis on Life
David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122
3h 56mSep 8, 2020
Top Gun Commander Recalls Tic Tac UFO And Future Of Flight
Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121
3h 1mSep 5, 2020
Can AI Cure Loneliness? Inside Replika’s Quest for Emotional Connection
François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #120
2h 34mAug 31, 2020
François Chollet Redefines Intelligence, Critiques Deep Learning’s True Limits
David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #119
1h 41mAug 26, 2020
David Eagleman Explores Our Livewired Brains, Tech, and Human Potential
Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown | Lex Fridman Podcast #118
2h 8mAug 23, 2020
Grant Sanderson on Feynman, math beauty, teaching, and exponential progress
Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117
2h 56mAug 20, 2020
Facing Death to Truly Live: Sheldon Solomon on Meaning and Fear
Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #116
1h 41mAug 16, 2020
Sara Seager on exoplanets, alien life, grief, and human meaning
Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #115
2h 10mAug 14, 2020
Dileep George explains brain-inspired AI, inference, and human-like vision
Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114
2h 48mAug 9, 2020
Let Physics Work: Russ Tedrake on Robots, Control, and Touch
Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics | Lex Fridman Podcast #113
2h 29mJul 31, 2020
Digital Life, Human Genome, and Evolution’s Messy, Beautiful Intelligence Unveiled
Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion | Lex Fridman Podcast #112
2h 1mJul 29, 2020
Fusion Energy, Scientific Limits, and Christian Faith in One Conversation
Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity | Lex Fridman Podcast #111
2h 7mJul 26, 2020
Richard Karp Explores Algorithms, NP-Completeness, and Human Intelligence Limits
Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision | Lex Fridman Podcast #110
1h 41mJul 21, 2020
Jitendra Malik explains why real computer vision is still hard
Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
1h 43mJul 18, 2020
Brian Kernighan on Unix, C, AWK, Go, and Computing’s Future
Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #108
1h 37mJul 14, 2020
Sergey Levine on Robots, Learning, and the Path to Real Intelligence
Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #107
1h 9mJul 8, 2020
Peter Singer on Suffering, Ethics, Animals, Poverty, and Future AI
Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast #106
2h 0mJul 3, 2020
DeepMind’s Matt Botvinick on brains, behavior, learning, and AI’s future
Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine | Lex Fridman Podcast #105
1h 2mJun 30, 2020
Robert Langer on Engineering Drugs, Tissues, and Scientific Failure
David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage | Lex Fridman Podcast #104
1h 49mJun 27, 2020
From RISC to RISC‑V: Patterson on Computing’s Past and Future
Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103
4h 8mJun 22, 2020
Ben Goertzel on AGI, robot compassion, and transcending human limits
Steven Pressfield: The War of Art | Lex Fridman Podcast #102
1h 27mJun 20, 2020
Steven Pressfield on War, Resistance, and Serving the Creative Muse
Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
3h 0mJun 13, 2020
Joscha Bach explores minds, meaning, AI, and our doomed civilization
Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle | Lex Fridman Podcast #99
1h 29mMay 28, 2020
Karl Friston Explains How Brains Exist By Minimizing Free Energy
Kate Darling: Social Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #98
1h 12mMay 23, 2020
How Our Emotional Bonds With Robots Shape Ethics, Rights, And Society
Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive | Lex Fridman Podcast #97
1h 22mMay 20, 2020
Sertac Karaman maps our robotic future: cars, drones, society, tradeoffs
Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #96
1h 10mMay 15, 2020
Stephen Schwarzman on Going Big, Pattern Recognition, and AI’s Future
Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security | Lex Fridman Podcast #95
2h 12mMay 12, 2020
Dawn Song on hacking AI: vulnerabilities, defenses, and data ownership
Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #94
1h 37mMay 8, 2020
Ilya Sutskever on Deep Learning’s Power, Limits, and Future AGI
Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #93
1h 12mMay 5, 2020
Daphne Koller on using machine learning to reinvent drug discovery
Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider | Lex Fridman Podcast #92
1h 38mApr 29, 2020
Inside the Large Hadron Collider: Higgs, Matter, and Cosmic Symmetry Breaking
Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #91
51mApr 24, 2020
Jack Dorsey on Money, Meaning, Bitcoin, and the Future of AI
Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus | Lex Fridman Podcast #90
2h 9mApr 22, 2020
Decoding Coronavirus: Computational Maps, Viral Evolution, and Pandemic Control
Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89
3h 11mApr 18, 2020
Stephen Wolfram Reimagines Physics, Intelligence, and Reality as Computation
Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas & Institutions | Lex Fridman Podcast #88
2h 46mApr 13, 2020
Eric Weinstein challenges institutions, unveils Geometric Unity, urges revolt
Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes | Lex Fridman Podcast #87
1h 7mApr 9, 2020
Richard Dawkins on evolution, memes, AI, gods, and morality
David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86
1h 48mApr 3, 2020
David Silver on AlphaGo, self-play, and the path to intelligence
Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85
1h 27mMar 31, 2020
Roger Penrose challenges computable mind, reimagines cosmos before Big Bang
Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83
1h 56mMar 26, 2020
Nick Bostrom on Simulations, Superintelligence, and Humanity’s Future Choices
Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game | Lex Fridman Podcast #82
37mMar 21, 2020
Simon Sinek Explores Infinite Games, Legacy, Leadership, and Hard Work
Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81
1h 38mMar 19, 2020
Designing Robots That Understand Human Intent, Limits, and Preferences
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80
1h 35mMar 16, 2020
Vitalik Buterin on money, Ethereum, and redesigning global economic coordination
Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #79
1h 9mMar 7, 2020
Lee Smolin on Reality, Time, and Fixing Modern Theoretical Physics
Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #78
1h 9mMar 5, 2020
Ann Druyan on love, Voyager, and science as humanity’s hope
Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #77
1h 11mMar 3, 2020
Alex Garland on AI, free will, and science as modern poetry
John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology | Lex Fridman Podcast #76
1h 12mFeb 29, 2020
Physicist John Hopfield on brains, networks, consciousness, and complexity’s laws
Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75
1h 39mFeb 26, 2020
Marcus Hutter explains AIXI, compression, and the path to AGI
Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #74
1h 45mFeb 24, 2020
Michael I. Jordan Redefines AI: From Hype to Human-Centric Engineering
Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #73
1h 29mFeb 20, 2020
Andrew Ng on Scaling AI, Democratizing Education, and Real-World Impact
Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #72
1h 33mFeb 17, 2020
Scott Aaronson Demystifies Quantum Computing, Supremacy, and Real-World Impact
Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #71
1h 44mFeb 14, 2020
Vapnik Explores Predicates, Invariants, and Plato’s Blueprint for Intelligence
Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
1h 34mFeb 5, 2020
Jim Keller dissects chips, brains, Moore’s Law and human meaning
David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #69
1h 38mJan 29, 2020
David Chalmers Explores Consciousness, Simulations, and Our Post‑Human Future
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm | Lex Fridman Podcast #68
1h 30mJan 25, 2020
Inside YouTube’s Algorithm: Personalization, Responsibility, and Creator Well‑Being
Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & UBI | Lex Fridman Podcast #67
1h 3mJan 21, 2020
Paul Krugman Dissects Markets, Safety Nets, Robots, and Justice
Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction & Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems | Lex Fridman Podcast #66
1h 39mJan 17, 2020
Ayanna Howard on Imperfect Robots, Human Trust, and Ethical AI
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #65
1h 18mJan 14, 2020
Daniel Kahneman on human thinking, AI limits, and life’s stories
Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics | Lex Fridman Podcast #64
1h 2mJan 7, 2020
Grant Sanderson Reveals How Notation Shapes Our Mathematical Reality
Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #63
1h 37mJan 3, 2020
Stalin, Putin, and why unchecked power corrodes leaders and nations
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #62
1h 45mDec 30, 2019
Donald Knuth on algorithms, beauty, randomness, and human limits
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61
1h 52mDec 28, 2019
Melanie Mitchell Explores Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense, Future AI
Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right | Lex Fridman Podcast #60
1h 34mDec 25, 2019
Jim Gates explores supersymmetry, string theory, consciousness, and destiny
Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59
1h 18mDec 21, 2019
Sebastian Thrun on AI, self‑driving cars, flying taxis, and education
Michael Stevens: Vsauce | Lex Fridman Podcast #58
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Michael Stevens and Lex Fridman Explore Curiosity, Reality, and Responsibility
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1h 45mDec 14, 2019
Inside Alexa: Building Trustworthy Conversational AI for Real Life
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, and the Path to AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #56
1h 23mDec 11, 2019
Judea Pearl explains causal reasoning as missing key to true AI
Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #55
1h 16mDec 5, 2019
Whitney Cummings on robots, neurology, love, and human hypocrisy
Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, AI & the Arc of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #54
1h 30mDec 2, 2019
Ray Dalio on truth, risk, AI, money, and life’s arc
Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #53
35mNov 29, 2019
Noam Chomsky on Language, Human Limits, and AI’s Blind Spots
Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare | Lex Fridman Podcast #52
49mNov 25, 2019
Gilbert Strang on Linear Algebra’s Power, Beauty, and Global Classroom
Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars | Lex Fridman Podcast #51
39mNov 22, 2019
Designing Future Space Suits and Missions for a Human Mars Era
Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Privacy & Ethics | Lex Fridman Podcast #50
1h 48mNov 19, 2019
Designing Fair, Private Algorithms Without Letting Machines Define Morality
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Lex Fridman Podcast #49
36mNov 12, 2019
Elon Musk on Neuralink, AI Safety, Tesla Autonomy, and Humanity’s Future
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast #48
1h 47mNov 7, 2019
Bjarne Stroustrup on C++: Abstraction, Efficiency, and Reliable Systems
Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation | Lex Fridman Podcast #47
1h 29mNov 1, 2019
Sean Carroll Defends Many-Worlds and Emergent Spacetime on Lex Fridman
Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin | Lex Fridman Podcast #46
55mOct 27, 2019
Kasparov on genius, machines, dictatorship, and the limits of AI
Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #45
1h 0mOct 22, 2019
Michio Kaku Envisions Humanity’s Cosmic Future, AI, Immortality, and Mars
David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #44
2h 24mOct 11, 2019
From Watson’s Jeopardy Triumph to Truly Understanding Human-Like Intelligence
Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #43
1h 25mOct 3, 2019
Gary Marcus calls for hybrid AI: deep learning plus symbols
Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42
1h 3mSep 30, 2019
Peter Norvig on AI’s Past, Present, Ethics, and Human-Centered Future
Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory and Black Holes | Lex Fridman Podcast #41
57mSep 26, 2019
Leonard Susskind on intuition, quantum reality, black holes, and AI
Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment | Lex Fridman Podcast #40
1h 17mSep 23, 2019
MIT’s Regina Barzilay on Deep Learning, Cancer, and Life’s Purpose
Colin Angle: iRobot CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #39
37mSep 19, 2019
iRobot CEO on home robots, privacy, and practical AI futures
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #38
1h 59mSep 14, 2019
François Chollet Challenges AI Hype, Intelligence Explosion, and Deep Learning Limits
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots | Lex Fridman Podcast #37
56mSep 8, 2019
Vijay Kumar reveals future of agile flying robots and swarms
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, ConvNets, and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #36
1h 15mAug 31, 2019
Yann LeCun outlines path to human-level AI through self-supervision
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35
1h 44mAug 27, 2019
Jeremy Howard on democratizing deep learning, tools, and real impact
Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34
1h 0mAug 23, 2019
Pamela McCorduck recalls AI’s mythic roots and scientific audacity
Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin | Lex Fridman Podcast #33
1h 13mAug 19, 2019
Lockheed CTO on AI, hypersonics, and humanity’s future in space
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid | Lex Fridman Podcast #32
57mAug 12, 2019
Harvard neuroscientist decodes human brain development using lab-grown organoids
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
1h 59mAug 5, 2019
George Hotz on hacking, Comma.ai, and the real self‑driving race
Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO | Lex Fridman Podcast #30
57mAug 1, 2019
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott Envisions Democratic, Ethical, Platform-Powered AI Future
Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Lex Fridman Podcast #29
1h 47mJul 29, 2019
Spotify’s Gustav Soderström on Music, AI, Creation, and the Future
Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA | Lex Fridman Podcast #28
44mJul 22, 2019
Chris Urmson on Safely Scaling Real-World Self-Driving Car Technology
Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers - China and Silicon Valley | Lex Fridman Podcast #27
1h 26mJul 15, 2019
Kai-Fu Lee on AI, China’s Rise, Jobs, and the Human Heart
Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #26
34mJul 10, 2019
Sean Carroll explores cosmos, consciousness, simulations, and humanity’s uncertain future
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25
2h 9mJul 1, 2019
Jeff Hawkins maps how brain’s thousand models could reinvent intelligence
Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Lex Fridman Podcast #24
1h 0mJun 17, 2019
Rosalind Picard on Emotional AI, Privacy Risks, Wearables, and Meaning
Gavin Miller: Adobe Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #23
1h 9mJun 10, 2019
Adobe Research Chief Explores AI’s Future in Creativity and Robots
Rajat Monga: TensorFlow | Lex Fridman Podcast #22
1h 10mJun 3, 2019
Rajat Monga on TensorFlow’s evolution, ecosystem, and open-source impact
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21
1h 13mMay 13, 2019
Chris Lattner on Compilers, Swift, TPUs, and ML’s Future Infrastructure
Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20
1h 46mApr 29, 2019
DeepMind’s AlphaStar: StarCraft Mastery, Language Roots, and Future AI
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) | Lex Fridman Podcast #19
1h 8mApr 18, 2019
Ian Goodfellow on GANs, AI Limits, Security, and Future Intelligence
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
32mApr 12, 2019
Elon Musk explains Tesla Autopilot’s path to safer-than-human autonomy
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #17
1h 25mApr 3, 2019
Greg Brockman on steering AGI: power, safety, and human destiny
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
1h 21mMar 20, 2019
Eric Weinstein warns of runaway technology, broken academia, and fragile civilization
Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #15
1h 1mMar 12, 2019
Leslie Kaelbling on uncertainty, abstraction, and truly intelligent robots
Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14
55mFeb 7, 2019
Kyle Vogt on Cruise, startups, and building safe self-driving cars
Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13
1h 20mJan 19, 2019
Tomaso Poggio on Intelligence, Brains, and the Limits of AI
Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #12
1h 6mDec 28, 2018
AI Mastering Poker Reveals Future of Game Theory and Strategy
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #11
1h 19mDec 23, 2018
Jurgen Schmidhuber on self-improving AI, curiosity, and universal intelligence
Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #10
42mDec 16, 2018
Pieter Abbeel Explores How Learning Robots Could Become Skilled, Safe, Loving
Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9
1h 26mDec 9, 2018
Stuart Russell on Controlling Superhuman AI and Humanity’s Future Choices
Eric Schmidt: Google | Lex Fridman Podcast #8
33mDec 4, 2018
Eric Schmidt on Scale, AI, and Building World-Changing Tech Platforms
Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7
1h 20mNov 29, 2018
Jeff Atwood on puzzles, people, and building strict online communities
Guido van Rossum: Python | Lex Fridman Podcast #6
1h 26mNov 22, 2018
Guido van Rossum on Python, intelligence, and the future of code
Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #5
54mNov 16, 2018
Vladimir Vapnik on learning, intelligence, and the limits of deep learning
Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #4
42mOct 20, 2018
Yoshua Bengio on credit assignment, world models, and AI’s future
Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason | Lex Fridman Podcast #3
37mOct 17, 2018
Steven Pinker Challenges AI Doomsday Fears With Rational Optimism
Christof Koch: Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #2
57mMay 29, 2018
Christof Koch Dissects Consciousness, AI, Free Will, and Spirituality
Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #1
1h 22mApr 19, 2018
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