Lex Fridman

American AI researcher and podcaster. Research scientist at MIT, working on human-robot interaction and autonomous vehicles. Host of the Lex Fridman Podcast, one of the highest-reach long-form interview shows in technology and science.

Fridman’s interviews are notable for their range — from leading AI researchers and physicists to political figures and philosophers — and for his patient, unhurried style. Conversations regularly run three to six hours. His episodes with figures such as Andrej Karpathy, Elon Musk, and Vladimir Putin have each drawn tens of millions of views.

Show

Lex Fridman Podcast — long-form interviews spanning AI, mathematics, physics, history, philosophy, and politics. Free on YouTube and all podcast platforms. Episodes run three to six hours; released weekly to fortnightly. Full official transcripts available at lexfridman.com.

Episodes hosted

• Michael Saylor on Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money (14 April 2022)
• Nick Lane on the Origin of Life, Bioenergetics, and Why Complex Life Is Rare (7 September 2022)
• Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Neutrality, and the Governance of Knowledge (18 June 2023)
• Yuval Noah Harari on Shared Fictions, Intelligence, and Power (17 July 2023)
• Neri Oxman on Material Ecology, Designing with Nature, and Engineering with Biology (1 September 2023)
• Walter Isaacson on Genius, Creativity, and the Craft of Biography (10 September 2023)
• Mark Zuckerberg on the Metaverse, Codec Avatars, and the Future of Presence (28 September 2023)
• Jeff Bezos on Amazon, Blue Origin, and Decision-Making (14 December 2023)
• Marc Raibert on Boston Dynamics, Legged Robots, and the Future of Robotics (16 February 2024)
• Bill Ackman on Activist Investing, Concentrated Bets, and Financial Battles (20 February 2024)
• Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Deterrence, and Government Secrecy (22 March 2024)
• Edward Gibson on Human Language, Psycholinguistics, and LLMs (17 April 2024)
• Charan Ranganath on Human Memory, False Memories, and How the Brain Reconstructs the Past (25 May 2024)
• Elon Musk and the Neuralink Team on Brain-Computer Interfaces, the N1 Implant, and the First Patient (2 August 2024)
• Vejas Liulevicius on Communism, Fascism, and the Machinery of Totalitarianism (20 September 2024)
• Adam Frank on Alien Civilizations, the Search for Life, and Technosignatures (22 December 2024)
• Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the History of Free-Market Ideas (19 January 2025)
• Marc Andreessen on Preference Falsification, Institutional Power, and the AI Race (26 January 2025)
• Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Modern China, the CCP, and Hong Kong (24 April 2025)
• Tim Sweeney on Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and the App Store Wars (30 April 2025)
• Sundar Pichai on AI, Google DeepMind, and the Future of Search (5 June 2025)
• Keyu Jin on China's Economy, Industrial Policy, and State Capitalism (13 August 2025)
• Dave Hone on Tyrannosaurs, Mass Extinction, and the Real Lives of Dinosaurs (4 September 2025)
• Norman Ohler on Drugs in Nazi Germany, Blitzkrieg, and the History of Psychedelics (19 September 2025)
• Pavel Durov on Building Telegram, Privacy, and Platform Independence (30 September 2025)
• Julia Shaw on False Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, and the Psychology of Evil (14 October 2025)
• Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and the Craft of Open-World Storytelling (31 October 2025)
• David Kirtley on Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy (17 November 2025)
• Michael Levin on Bioelectricity, Basal Cognition, and Diverse Intelligence (30 November 2025)
• Paul Rosolie on the Amazon, Uncontacted Tribes, and Rainforest Conservation (13 January 2026)
• Don Lincoln on Particle Physics, Antimatter, and the Biggest Mysteries in Physics (3 June 2026)
• Anthony Kaldellis on the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and the Rise and Fall of Empires (30 June 2026)

Related

• Andrej Karpathy — recurring collaborator and guest