Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, a long-form interview show covering AI, science, history, and economics. He was formerly a software engineer and began podcasting in 2022, quickly building a reputation for technically rigorous, unusually long conversations — routinely running three to five hours — with leading researchers and founders.

He is known for preparation depth and adversarial engagement: guests report being pressed harder than in most media interviews. His conversations with AI researchers (Andrej Karpathy, Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever) are among the most-cited primary sources on the technical trajectory of AI.

Show

Dwarkesh Podcast — long-form interviews with scientists, historians, economists, and AI researchers. Free on Substack and YouTube. No fixed cadence; episodes run several hours and are released infrequently.

Episodes hosted

• Andrej Karpathy on AGI Timelines, RL's Limits, and the Future of Education
• Dario Amodei on the End of the Exponential, AI Diffusion, and the Economics of AGI
• Ilya Sutskever on the Age of Research, Continual Learning, and Alignment
• Jensen Huang on Nvidia's Supply Chain Moat, Accelerated Computing vs TPUs, and the China Chip Debate