546 summaries

Lex Fridman

AI researcher hosting long-form conversations on science, technology, power and the human condition.

Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497

Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln tours physics's biggest mysteries: unification, the Higgs, antimatter, dark energy,

FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496

FFmpeg and VLC core developers explain the invisible open-source machinery behind nearly all internet video, codecs, ass

Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495

Historian Lars Brownworth traces the Vikings from the Lindisfarne raid to Valhalla, berserkers, Leif Erikson's Amer

Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music | Lex Fridman Podcast #492

Rick Beato and Lex Fridman dig into great guitarists, perfect pitch, music history, the recording craft, and AI's t

OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491

Peter Steinberger on building OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that took over tech, plus the future of agentic enginee

State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490

Lex Fridman, Sebastian Raschka, and Nathan Lambert survey the 2026 state of AI: LLMs, scaling, open models, China, agent

Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489

Paul Rosolie recounts a world-first filmed encounter with an uncontacted Amazon tribe and his fight to protect the jungl

Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multiverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #488

Set theorist Joel David Hamkins explores infinity, Gödel's incompleteness, the continuum hypothesis, and his plural

Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah's Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487

British Museum cuneiform expert Irving Finkel on the origins of writing, the Babylonian flood story behind Noah's A

Michael Levin: Hidden Reality of Alien Intelligence & Biological Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #486

Biologist Michael Levin argues intelligence is a continuum across cells, machines, and minds, all 'interfaces'

David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy | Lex Fridman Podcast #485

Helion CEO David Kirtley explains how pulsed magneto-inertial fusion could deliver cheap, safe electricity directly, wit

Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser on creating GTA and Red Dead Redemption, the craft of storytelling in games, and his new

Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex | Lex Fridman Podcast #483

Criminal psychologist Julia Shaw on why we're all capable of evil, how false memories are made, and the science of

Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482

Telegram founder Pavel Durov on freedom, censorship, his French arrest, lean engineering, crypto, an assassination attem

Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481

Norman Ohler reveals how methamphetamine fueled Nazi Blitzkrieg and how Hitler's opioid addiction warped his wartim

Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480

Paleontologist Dave Hone unpacks T. rex biology, dinosaur behavior, evolution, extinction, and what Jurassic Park gets w

Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories | Lex Fridman Podcast #479

Old-school Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer recounts building Windows Task Manager, ZIP support, and Pinball, plus living

Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #478

Anti-war historian Scott Horton traces how US interventionism, the military-industrial complex, and the Israel lobby pro

Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477

LSE economist Keyu Jin dispels Western myths about China's decentralized economy, tariffs, innovation, demographics

Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476

Anthropologist Jack Weatherford on Genghis Khan's brutal rise, military genius, and the surprisingly modern empire

Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475

Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis on AGI by 2030, modeling reality with classical learning, video games, science, and the na

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474

Ruby on Rails creator DHH on programming aesthetics, AI, leaving the cloud, fighting Apple, small teams, racing, and fam

Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #473

A marathon, often combative debate over whether Iran was building nuclear weapons and whether the US-Israeli strikes wer

Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472

Terence Tao on the hardest problems in math and physics, the structure of primes, and how AI and formal proofs are resha

Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai talks AI's future, Gemini, the AI race comeback, robotics, Chrome, and AGI wi

Essentials: Machines, Creativity & Love | Dr. Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman and Andrew Huberman explore AI, machine learning, robot companionship, and grieve their dogs together.

James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470

Historian James Holland reframes WWII through logistics, propaganda, and numbers, arguing the Axis was doomed once it fo

Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain | Lex Fridman Podcast #469

Oliver Anthony talks fame, walking away from $8M record deals, blue-collar America, depression, faith, and nature with L

Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468

Theoretical physicist Janna Levin explains black holes, the information paradox, wormholes, extra dimensions, gravitatio

Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467

Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney on Fortnite, Unreal Engine, the metaverse, the Verse language, and his antitrust fight wi

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao | Lex Fridman Podcast #466

Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom unpacks Xi Jinping vs. Mao, censorship, Tiananmen, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US-China tra

Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking | Lex Fridman Podcast #465

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on making El Mariachi for $7,000, doing every job himself, creative philosophy, and collabora

Dave Smith: Israel, Hamas, Ukraine, Russia, Conspiracies & Antisemitism | Lex Fridman Podcast #464

Anti-war libertarian comedian Dave Smith argues that empire, military intervention, and dehumanizing enemies fuel endles

Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza | Lex Fridman Podcast #463

Douglas Murray defends strong views on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza, arguing against propaganda, appeasement of aggres

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE | Lex Fridman Podcast #462

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson make the case for 'Abundance' liberalism, dissecting Democratic dysfunction, Tru

ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461

Legendary programmer ThePrimeagen talks coding craft, AI's limits, beating addiction, ADHD, productivity, and findi

Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India - Power, Democracy, War & Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #460

Narendra Modi reflects on poverty, spirituality, fasting, peacemaking, democracy, AI, and India's civilizational id

DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459

Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert break down DeepSeek, AI training economics, export controls, NVIDIA, TSMC, and the global

Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & Future of America | Lex Fridman Podcast #458

Marc Andreessen on a coming American boom, censorship, university rot, the iron law of oligarchy, immigration, DOGE, and

Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457

Historian Jennifer Burns unpacks the lives and ideas of Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand, exploring economics, capitalism, a

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #456

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy argues war can only end through strength and real security guarantees, not naive trus

Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455

Astrophysicist Adam Frank on the odds of alien civilizations, how to detect them, and why life forces a rethink of physi

Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #454

Saagar Enjeti traces the history behind Trump's 2024 win, MAGA, DOGE, immigration, and the realignment of American

Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453

Argentina's anarcho-capitalist president Javier Milei details his radical free-market reforms, war on corruption, a

Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, plus Amanda Askell and Chris Olah, on Claude, scaling laws, AGI, AI safety, and interpretabi

Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #451

Historian Rick Spence on the hidden history of intelligence agencies, secret societies, the occult, anti-Semitism, and t

Bernie Sanders Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #450

Bernie Sanders argues America is sliding into oligarchy and makes the case for popular progressive ideas like Medicare f

Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449

Graham Hancock argues a lost Ice Age civilization seeded humanity's myths, astronomy, and monuments before a younge

Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #448

Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman explore Nietzsche, the death of God, psychopathy, suffering, voluntary adventure, and th

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

The Cursor founders break down how AI is reshaping programming, from tab-completion and diffs to scaling laws, bug-findi

Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446

Archaeologist Ed Barnhart explores lost civilizations of the Americas: the Maya, Aztec, Inca, Amazon mysteries, calendar

Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #445

Vivek Ramaswamy lays out a conservative vision to dismantle the federal bureaucracy and 'nanny state' across a

Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler | Lex Fridman Podcast #444

Historian Vejas Liulevicius traces the ideas and atrocities of communism and Nazism, from Marx to Stalin, Mao, Hitler, a

Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443

Historian Gregory Aldrete traces Rome's rise and fall, from Hannibal and the Punic Wars to Augustus, gladiators, la

Donald Trump Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #442

Donald Trump talks winning, dealmaking, Ukraine, immigration, the 2020 election, Epstein, and his Truth Social habits wi

Cenk Uygur: Trump vs Harris, Progressive Politics, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #441

Progressive commentator Cenk Uygur argues money in politics, not left-vs-right, is the core corruption corroding America

Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440

Solo indie hacker Pieter Levels on building 40+ profitable startups alone with vanilla PHP, AI tools, and the digital no

Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #439

Submission grappler Craig Jones on his rival CJI tournament, frontline trips to Ukraine, trolling, and the art of jiu-ji

Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438

Elon Musk and the Neuralink team, plus first human implant patient Noland Arbaugh, on brain-computer interfaces and the

Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6 | Lex Fridman Podcast #437

Alone Season 6 champion Jordan Jonas on Arctic survival, hunting, his years living with Siberian nomads, suffering, fait

Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #436

Ivanka Trump talks architecture, her late mother, fashion, White House policy work, family, jiu-jitsu, and finding prese

Andrew Huberman: Focus, Controversy, Politics, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #435

Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman talk focus, online science controversies, peptides, psychedelics, politics, sharks, and

Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on building an answer engine, how search and LLMs combine, and the future of AI reasonin

Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433

Astrobiologist Sara Walker reframes life as information structuring matter over time, exploring assembly theory, the ori

Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #432

Kevin Spacey on his greatest film roles, his craft of acting, the 2017 allegations and cancellation, and his estranged w

Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431

AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy argues superintelligent AI is fundamentally uncontrollable and poses near-certain

Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories | Lex Fridman Podcast #430

Neuroscientist Charan Ranganath explains how human memory works as a reconstructive, predictive system shaping identity,

Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #429

Recorded deep in the Peruvian Amazon, Paul Rosolie and Lex Fridman explore apex predators, uncontacted tribes, conservat

Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428

Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll on general relativity, black holes, the holographic principle, many-worlds quantum me

Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset | Lex Fridman Podcast #427

Judo legend Neil Adams on Olympic heartbreak, the champion mindset, the science of grips and groundwork, and life after

Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426

MIT psycholinguist Ted Gibson explains why human languages share deep structural patterns, how language differs from tho

Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones | Lex Fridman Podcast #425

Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan on gonzo journalism, hitchhiking, QAnon, January 6th, O-Block drill, fame, and his pub

Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame | Lex Fridman Podcast #424

Egyptian-American satirist Bassem Youssef on Israel-Palestine, Gaza, propaganda, fleeing Egypt, fame, religion, and the

Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #423

Tulsi Gabbard on the human and financial cost of war, the military-industrial complex, censorship, and why she left the

Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs | Lex Fridman Podcast #422

Mark Cuban on entrepreneurship, his $5.7B Yahoo exit, DEI and wokeism debates with Elon, and fixing healthcare with Cost

Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck | Lex Fridman Podcast #421

UFC president Dana White on building the UFC, fighting legends, Trump, Elon vs Zuck, gambling, and why fighting is in hu

Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420

Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen walks Lex Fridman second-by-second through how nuclear war starts, kills 5 billi

Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419

Sam Altman on the OpenAI board firing, GPT-5, Sora, Elon's lawsuit, Ilya, compute as future currency, and the path

Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris | Lex Fridman Podcast #418

A fiery four-way Israel-Palestine debate spanning 1948, Zionism, October 7th, genocide claims, and prospects for peace.

Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family | Lex Fridman Podcast #417

Kimbal Musk on cooking as art, food bringing people together, surviving a broken neck, and building Zip2, Tesla, and Spa

Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416

Yann LeCun argues autoregressive LLMs can't reach human-level AI, defends open-source models, and dismisses AGI doo

Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415

Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy explains the Soviet collapse, Ukraine's national identity, Bandera, the KGB, Cherno

Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414

Tucker Carlson unpacks his Putin interview, the Ukraine war, Navalny, US surveillance, media corruption, and a realist c

Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413

Activist investor Bill Ackman on value investing, his biggest wins and losses, the Harvard DEI fight, defending his wife

Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #412

Legendary roboticist Marc Raibert traces 40+ years of legged robots, from pogo-stick hoppers to Big Dog, Atlas and Spot.

Omar Suleiman: Palestine, Gaza, Oct 7, Israel, Resistance, Faith & Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #411

Imam Omar Suleiman makes the Palestinian case on Gaza, occupation, October 7th, resistance, faith, and American complici

Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism | Lex Fridman Podcast #410

Ben Shapiro and Destiny debate Trump vs Biden, Jan 6, Israel-Gaza, Ukraine, Iran, and wokeism on Lex Fridman.

Matthew Cox: FBI Most Wanted Con Man - $55 Million in Bank Fraud | Lex Fridman Podcast #409

Con man Matthew Cox details how he committed $55 million in mortgage and bank fraud, went on the run, and got caught.

Tal Wilkenfeld: Music, Guitar, Bass, Jeff Beck, Prince, and Leonard Cohen | Lex Fridman Podcast #408

Bassist Tal Wilkenfeld on playing without fear, grief, mentorship, and the spiritual craft of music with legends like Je

Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #407

Physicist Guillaume Verdon, secretly the e/acc meme account Beff Jezos, defends accelerating tech, decentralized AI, and

Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D'Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness | Lex Fridman Podcast #406

Legendary boxing trainer Teddy Atlas on Cus D'Amato, training young Mike Tyson, betrayal, loyalty, fear, and greatn

Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405

Jeff Bezos on building Blue Origin, the future of humanity in space, Amazon's decision-making culture, AI, and long

Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #404

Chemist Lee Cronin explains assembly theory, his controversial Nature paper quantifying selection, life's origin, a

Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403

Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall explains dark matter, the standard model, and her speculative theory linking dark mat

Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #402

Michael Malice and Lex Fridman riff on humor, gratitude, art, anti-Semitism, anarchism, and an obsessive shaving-soap ha

John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401

Realist scholar John Mearsheimer argues great-power survival, not ideology, drives war, blaming NATO expansion for Ukrai

Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400

Elon Musk's fourth Lex Fridman appearance ranges across war, peace, AI, aliens, simulation theory, Grok, Tesla auto

Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #399

Jared Kushner breaks down Hamas's October 7 attack, the Abraham Accords, and the art of high-stakes geopolitical de

Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398

Lex Fridman interviews Mark Zuckerberg as photorealistic Codec Avatars inside the metaverse, exploring presence, mixed r

Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #397

Free speech attorney Greg Lukianoff explains how cancel culture works, why campuses censor, and why open discourse beats

James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #396

A veteran divorce lawyer explains why marriages really fail, how love endures despite imperfection, and why he stays a h

Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin | Lex Fridman Podcast #395

Biographer Walter Isaacson dissects the demons, drives, and genius linking Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, da Vinci, an

Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394

Neri Oxman explains her vision of growing products with nature instead of building them, and connecting AI's intell

Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #393

On Lex's birthday, neuroscientist Andrew Huberman opens up about prayer, betrayal, covert contracts, peace, and fin

Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392

Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explores consciousness as a self-organizing game engine, the seven stages of mind, and w

Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine | Lex Fridman Podcast #391

Palestinian poet and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd gives Lex Fridman an unflinching firsthand account of occupation, dispo

Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #390

Historian Yuval Noah Harari on how stories rule humanity, why AI is an alien intelligence that could enslave us, and whe

Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #389

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu defends his judicial reform, lays out his vision for Middle East peace via the Arab world,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #388

RFK Jr. argues the Ukraine war is a provoked proxy conflict, indicts the CIA, big Pharma, and the press, and recounts hi

George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387

George Hotz returns for a wide-ranging, contrarian talk on AI doom, open-source as the only safe path, tinygrad, decentr

Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #386

Marc Andreessen makes the optimistic case for AI, argues against AI doom as a quasi-religious cult, and traces the futur

Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia | Lex Fridman Podcast #385

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales on building the encyclopedia, neutrality, trust, AI, and why he kept it ad-free.

Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #384

Matthew McConaughey and Lex Fridman roam across love, death, fatherhood, denial, acting, AI, and the meaning of life.

Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp | Lex Fridman Podcast #383

Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta's open-source AI vision, defends a future of many personalized AIs, and unveils the $

Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un | Lex Fridman Podcast #382

Comedian Bert Kreischer riffs with Lex Fridman on drinking, comedy, friendship with Rogan and Segura, fatherhood, and fi

Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Chris Lattner explains Mojo, a Python superset built for AI that he claims can run up to 35,000x faster, and his mission

Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380

MIT's Neil Gershenfeld explains how self-replicating robots and digital fabrication could turn descriptions into th

Randall Kennedy: The N-Word - History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #379

Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy unpacks the history, power, and politics of America's most explosive racial s

Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars | Lex Fridman Podcast #378

MIT astrophysicist Anna Frebel explains how the universe's oldest surviving stars preserve a chemical record of the

Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377

Legendary free-speech advocate Harvey Silverglate makes an absolutist case for free expression, attacks campus administr

Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #376

Stephen Wolfram explains why ChatGPT works, what truth means computationally, and how observers' limits give rise t

David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism | Lex Fridman Podcast #375

Progressive commentator David Pakman dissects Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, wokeism and media outrage with Lex Fridman.

Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #374

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter on how legged robots learn to walk, jump, and work — and why physical reality keeps A

Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #373

MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis and Lex Fridman explore what makes humans irreplaceable, AI as the next stage

Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design | Lex Fridman Podcast #372

Simone Giertz traces her path from 'shitty robots' to a real product company, a Tesla truck conversion, and su

Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371

MIT physicist Max Tegmark makes the case for a six-month pause on giant AI experiments before a runaway intelligence exp

Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #370

Mathematician Edward Frenkel argues reality is fundamentally paradoxical, weaving together math, quantum physics, the La

Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca | Lex Fridman Podcast #369

Conservationist Paul Rosolie recounts 17 years in the Amazon - giant anacondas, uncontacted tribes, near-death MRSA, aya

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368

AI-risk theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that superintelligent AGI will likely kill everyone because alignment must be

Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4, AGI safety, the iterative-deployment philosophy, bias, jobs, and the future of intellige

Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #366

Forensic psychologist Shannon Curry unpacks the science of lasting love, infidelity, and her testimony in the Johnny Dep

Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs | Lex Fridman Podcast #365

Sam Harris and Lex Fridman wrestle over Trump, COVID, Twitter, lost friendships with Elon and Brett, AI risk, UFOs, and

Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator | Lex Fridman Podcast #364

Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss breaks down tactical empathy, the science of listening, and why feelings beat r

B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan | Lex Fridman Podcast #363

The B-Team's Craig Jones, Nicky Rod and Nicky Ryan riff on the DDS split, the Gordon Ryan feud, steroids, and coach

Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity | Lex Fridman Podcast #362

Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on leading through reinvention, the power of doing hard things in a positive way, and AI&#x

Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology | Lex Fridman Podcast #361

A former Scientologist raised in the church explains its beliefs, the e-meter, Xenu, and how it destroys families.

Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #360

Tim Urban joins Lex Fridman to map tribalism, wokeness, and Marxism onto a 'vertical axis' of how (not what) w

Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #359

Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger explains why black holes are mirrors, how they store information, and why now is a t

Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality | Lex Fridman Podcast #358

Sex researcher Aella tells Lex Fridman how a repressive homeschooling led to sex work and the world's largest fetis

Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #357

Psychiatrist Paul Conti unpacks how envy fuels narcissism, sociopathy, and evil, and how truth, humility, and gratitude

Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel | Lex Fridman Podcast #356

Everyday Astronaut Tim Dodd breaks down SpaceX rockets, engine cycles, and Starship, then reveals he's flying aroun

David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #355

Astronomer David Kipping on hunting exomoons, alien biosignatures, and why we might be cosmically alone right now.

Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast #354

Historian Jeremi Suri argues America's Civil War never truly ended and its unfinished fights over freedom and democ

Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy | Lex Fridman Podcast #353

MIT fusion scientist Dennis Whyte explains how nuclear fusion works and why commercial fusion power finally looks four y

Omar Suleiman: Islam | Lex Fridman Podcast #352

Muslim scholar Omar Suleiman walks Lex Fridman through the beauty of Islam, the roots of Islamophobia, and the Israel-Pa

MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #351

MrBeast breaks down how he engineers viral YouTube videos, builds obsessive teams, and scales Feastables and Beast Burge

600k Q&A - Masculinity Crisis, Woke Pushback & Lex Fridman

Chris Williamson answers fan questions for Modern Wisdom's 600k subscriber milestone, covering masculinity, sobriet

1984 by George Orwell | Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman summarizes George Orwell's 1984 and shares personal takeaways on love, hate, power, and resisting total

Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #350

Astrobiologist Betul Kacar walks Lex Fridman through the origin of life, ancient DNA resurrection, the cell's trans

Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349

Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara makes the case for democratic socialism, defending markets while arguing workers should

Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #348

Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol on the search for alien life, the nature of life itself, and free diving in volcanic lake

Michael Malice: Christmas Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #347

Lex and Michael Malice mark his book The White Pill with a darkly funny, costume-clad deep dive into Soviet evil and har

Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels | Lex Fridman Podcast #346

A former Mexican counter-narcotics officer dissects cartel violence, corruption, kidnapping, narco-spirituality, and the

Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #345

Investigative journalist Coffeezilla breaks down the FTX collapse, why SBF can't be merely incompetent, and the ana

Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation | Lex Fridman Podcast #344

AI researcher Noam Brown explains how his bots conquered poker and the negotiation game Diplomacy, and what that reveals

Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #343

Roger Gracie breaks down the mind, mechanics, and obsessive practice behind becoming the greatest jiu jitsu competitor o

Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield | Lex Fridman Podcast #342

Legendary game director Todd Howard takes Lex Fridman deep into how Bethesda builds living open worlds, from Daggerfall

Navigating Conflict, Finding Purpose & Maintaining Drive | Dr Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman reflects on his Ukraine war trip, the generational hate of war, a startup calling, and the meaning of mascul

Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Python's creator Guido van Rossum on why Python 3.11 got faster, static typing, the GIL, and programming as a socia

Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road | Lex Fridman Podcast #340

The FBI agent who took down Silk Road and Anonymous's Sabu tells the technical and human story of hunting cybercrim

Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin | Lex Fridman Podcast #339

A measured climate-change debate where Bjorn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin reject both denial and doomism, arguing vulnerabi

Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #338

Billionaire VC Chamath Palihapitiya on a brutal childhood, why money doesn't buy happiness, mistakes as the engine

Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #337

Progressive streamer Destiny debates Lex on free speech, offensive language, war, institutions, the red pill, and his op

Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #336

Ben Shapiro joins Lex Fridman for a wide-ranging talk on antisemitism, evil, free speech, Trump and Biden, the Ukraine w

Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | Lex Fridman Podcast #335

Russia scholar Fiona Hill unpacks Putin's psychology, the road to the Ukraine war, the nuclear threat, and the case

Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons | Lex Fridman Podcast #334

Yale historian Abbas Amanat explains the Mahsa Amini protests and traces a century of Iranian history from 1906 to the n

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333

Andrej Karpathy on Tesla's vision-only self-driving, Optimus, the Transformer, aliens, simulation theory, and the p

Kanye 'Ye' West Interview | Lex Fridman Podcast #332

Kanye 'Ye' West joins Lex Fridman for a raw, combative two-hour conversation defending his antisemitic stateme

Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA | Lex Fridman Podcast #331

Balaji Srinivasan lays out a sweeping vision for replacing failing institutions, governments, the FDA, science, media, a

Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness | Lex Fridman Podcast #330

Chess super-GM Hikaru Nakamura on his rivalry with Magnus, the psychology of winning, the cheating scandal, and life bey

Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT | Lex Fridman Podcast #329

MIT roboticist Kate Darling argues we should think of robots like animals, not humans, and explores the ethics of social

John Danaher: Grappling, Jiu Jitsu, ADCC, and Animal Combat | Lex Fridman Podcast #328

Legendary grappling coach John Danaher breaks down his team's ADCC comeback, the science of confidence, and the gre

GothamChess: Hans Niemann, Magnus Carlsen, Cheating Scandal & Chess Bots | Lex Fridman Podcast #327

Chess YouTuber GothamChess breaks down the Hans Niemann cheating scandal, what makes Magnus great, chess bots, and life

Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326

Annaka Harris argues free will and the self are illusions and that consciousness may be a fundamental feature of reality

Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325

Biologist Michael Levin reframes cells, organs, and embryos as goal-directed intelligences, and lays out a future of reg

Daniel Negreanu: Poker | Lex Fridman Podcast #324

Poker legend Daniel Negreanu breaks down reads, ranges, solvers, resilience, and the mental game across a sprawling conv

Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #323

Comedian Will Sasso talks MADtv, channeling Curly in The Three Stooges, depression, AI-curated comedy, and why love and

Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #322

Emotion-AI pioneer Rana el Kaliouby on reading human feeling from faces, social robots, in-car sensing, and an empathy c

Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality | Lex Fridman Podcast #321

Ray Kurzweil defends his 2029 Turing test and 2045 singularity predictions, and explains how merging with AI could deliv

Christopher Capozzola: World War I, Ideology, Propaganda, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #320

MIT historian Christopher Capozzola explains how World War I birthed the modern American state, surveillance, and citize

Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame | Lex Fridman Podcast #319

Chess streamers Alexandra and Andrea Botez talk chess obsession, the pain of losing, streaming burnout, and platforming

Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318

Biochemist Nick Lane explains why life on Earth began in hydrothermal vents, why complex cells arose only once, and why

John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom | Lex Fridman Podcast #317

Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke maps the modern meaning crisis and argues wisdom, not belief, is what reconnects us to

Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War | Lex Fridman Podcast #316

Noam Chomsky argues the Ukraine war demands diplomacy over escalation, warns a US-China war would end organized life on

Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #315

Magnus Carlsen breaks down his chess mind, why he walked away from the World Championship, and his fun-first philosophy

Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk | Lex Fridman Podcast #314

Poker pro turned philanthropist Liv Boeree and Lex Fridman use game theory and 'Moloch' to map AI, nuclear, an

Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #313

Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman roam across God, beauty, death, fame, power, marriage, diet, and the meaning of life.

Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man | Lex Fridman Podcast #312

Comedian Duncan Trussell and Lex Fridman wander through AI sentience, Buddhism, death, war, depression, friendship, and

Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #311

Senegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade argues Africa is poor not from race or resources but from over-regulation, and that

Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast #310

A former CIA covert officer breaks down spycraft, the Russia-Ukraine war, surveillance, manipulation, and what intellige

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

Legendary programmer John Carmack spends over five hours with Lex Fridman on Doom, Quake, VR, rockets, and his all-in be

Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #308

A former Navy fighter pilot details repeated UFO encounters off the East Coast and what they mean for national security.

Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation | Lex Fridman Podcast #307

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on building the largest crypto exchange, fighting fraud, navigating regulators, and why cry

Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #306

DeepMind's Oriol Vinyals on Gato, the generalist agent, and what it'll take to reach human-level AGI.

Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | Lex Fridman Podcast #305

Cosmologist Martin Rees explores black holes, alien life, dark matter, the Big Bang, and the existential risks facing hu

Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church | Lex Fridman Podcast #304

Bishop Robert Barron makes the case for Catholic Christianity's beauty, explaining God, the incarnation, sin, suffe

Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #303

Heterodox economist Steve Keen dissects Marx, capitalism, money creation, and why mainstream economics gets climate chan

Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #302

Neuroscientist Richard Haier walks Lex Fridman through the science of IQ, the g factor, and the most incendiary topic in

Jack Barsky: KGB Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast #301

A former KGB illegal who spent over a decade undercover in America recounts his recruitment, training, defection, and a

Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on solving intelligence, how AlphaFold cracked protein folding, and using AI to understan

Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body - From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart | Lex Fridman Podcast #297

A physician-writer takes Lex on a wondrous, gross, and humbling tour of the human body, from sperm and feces to the hear

Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West | Lex Fridman Podcast #296

Douglas Murray argues Western civilization faces a one-sided cultural assault rooted in resentment, with gratitude as th

Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295

Marxist economist Richard Wolff explains what Marx actually argued, why Soviet implementations went wrong, and why he th

Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, Nest, Steve Jobs, Design, and Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #294

Tony Fadell on building the iPod, iPhone, and Nest, working with Steve Jobs, and the human nature behind making things w

Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293

Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues evolution shaped us to see a survival-optimized interface, not reality, and th

Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #292

Economist Robin Hanson lays out his 'grabby aliens' model, why we're cosmically early, and how competitio

Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #291

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues a specific viral social-media business model wrecked teen mental health and fr

Dan Reynolds: Imagine Dragons | Lex Fridman Podcast #290

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds opens up to Lex Fridman about faith, depression, fame, ayahuasca, and the craft of

Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #289

Historian Stephen Kotkin dismantles the 'NATO made Putin do it' narrative and frames Russia's war on Ukra

Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan, Fraud, Prison, and Sociopathy | Lex Fridman Podcast #288

Sarma Melngailis tells Lex Fridman her side of the Bad Vegan story, framing the fraud and prison as the result of psycho

Bobby Lee: Comedy, Skyrim, Sex Robots, Love, Fame, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #287

Comedian Bobby Lee opens up to Lex Fridman about addiction, a recent near-death rock bottom, love, childhood trauma, fam

Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #286

Oliver Stone defends Putin, blames U.S. imperialism for the Ukraine war, and warns the world is teetering on the brink o

Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture | Lex Fridman Podcast #285

Economist Glenn Loury argues racial disparities stem more from culture and behavior than systemic racism, and that black

Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284

Austrian economist Saifedean Ammous argues hard money like Bitcoin ends inflation, war, and high time preference rooted

Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | Lex Fridman Podcast #283

A Cornell geneticist makes the case that humanity has a duty to engineer life itself to survive and spread across the co

David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast #282

Evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains the science of human mating, sex differences, jealousy, and violence with

Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #281

Grimes and Lex Fridman explore becoming 'homo techno,' AI as the universe waking up, music production, motherh

Cristiano Amon: Qualcomm CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #280

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon explains how 5G, Snapdragon chips, and edge computing are wiring up an everything-connected

Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin | Lex Fridman Podcast #279

Astrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin debate what alien life is, how to detect it, and whether the universe

Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering | Lex Fridman Podcast #278

Oscar-nominated documentarian Skye Fitzgerald on famine as a weapon of war, the ethics of filming suffering, and choosin

Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #277

Huberman and Fridman roam from food, friendship and Rick Rubin to focus, stress, sauna science, sex, and how to ready yo

Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #276

Michael Saylor reframes inflation, money, and Bitcoin through an engineer's lens, arguing fiat currency is bleeding

Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry | Lex Fridman Podcast #274

Stanford psychiatrist and optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth on depression, schizophrenia, autism, suicide, and the de

Chris Blattman: War and Violence | Lex Fridman Podcast #273

A war scholar argues that war is almost always an avoidable, irrational breakdown of bargaining, with unaccountable powe

Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal | Lex Fridman Podcast #272

The Secret Service's 'original internet godfather' recounts building the first organized cybercrime ring,

Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures | Lex Fridman Podcast #271

MIT's Ariel Ekblaw on self-assembling space megastructures, floating space cities, and making life beyond Earth act

David Wolpe: Judaism | Lex Fridman Podcast #270

Rabbi David Wolpe and Lex Fridman explore God, faith, free will, the Holocaust, mortality, and whether machines could on

Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269

Chemist Lee Cronin argues life is an inevitable, measurable consequence of selection, and that assembly theory can detec

Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology | Lex Fridman Podcast #268

Stanford historian Robert Proctor on how science became a full collaborator in Nazi genocide, and how Big Tobacco manufa

Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #267

Zuckerberg defends Meta on speech, polarization, and teen well-being while sketching his vision for the metaverse, avata

Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266

Cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth on the shadowy zero-day market, mutually assured digital destruction, and how t

Devon Larratt: Arm Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #265

Arm wrestling legend Devon Larratt breaks down strength, technique, trash talk, his special forces past, and the climb t

Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264

Tim Urban riffs with Lex Fridman on aliens, Mars colonization, Neuralink, Elon's first-principles mind, polarizatio

John Abramson: Big Pharma | Lex Fridman Podcast #263

Harvard physician John Abramson explains how Big Pharma captured medical knowledge, distorts science, and prioritizes pr

Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #262

Stanford immunologist Garry Nolan explains why a rigorous scientist takes UFOs, anomalous brains, and alleged alien mate

Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind | Lex Fridman Podcast #261

Philosopher Philip Goff makes the case that consciousness is the fundamental nature of all matter, not a byproduct of th

Georges St-Pierre, John Danaher & Gordon Ryan: The Greatest of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #260

Three GOATs of combat sports break down success, mindset, diet myths, strength vs skill, takedown science, and what make

Thomas Tull: From Batman Dark Knight Trilogy to AI and The Rolling Stones | Lex Fridman Podcast #259

Legendary Entertainment founder Thomas Tull on making blockbusters, disrupting old industries with AI, and playing guita

Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #258

Yann LeCun argues self-supervised learning is the missing dark matter of intelligence and the key to machines that build

Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257

Cosmologist Brian Keating on the birth of the universe, the heartbreak of nearly winning the Nobel Prize, and why scienc

Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony | Lex Fridman Podcast #256

Objectivist Yaron Brook and national conservative Yoram Hazony debate whether the individual or the nation is the founda

Mark Normand: Comedy! | Lex Fridman Podcast #255

Comedian Mark Normand and Lex Fridman riff on love, bombing on stage, New York grit, Austin's comedy scene, and mor

Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns | Lex Fridman Podcast #254

Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya makes the data-driven case against COVID lockdowns and for focused protection of the vu

Michael Malice: New Year's Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #253

Malice and Fridman ring in 2022 with a warm, sprawling riff on beauty, evil, optimism, writing, and trading New York for

Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #252

Elon Musk walks Lex Fridman through Raptor engines, the Mars timeline, how Tesla's self-driving really works, human

Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #251

Ray Dalio explains the historical big cycle of rising and falling empires and what its measures reveal about the US, Chi

Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #250

Python pioneer Peter Wang takes Lex Fridman from package management to the meaning of life, love, and cybernetic civiliz

Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #249

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla defends the COVID vaccine's science, transparency, and the company's reputation in a

Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #247

Geopolitics expert Jamie Metzl lays out why he is 85% sure COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab and condemns the Chinese cov

Peter Woit: Theories of Everything & Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong | Lex Fridman Podcast #246

Columbia physicist-mathematician Peter Woit explains why string theory is 'not even wrong' and where the real

Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #245

Olympic champion Tom Brands on the hatred of losing, relentless repetition, and the indomitable culture of Iowa wrestlin

Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #244

Stanford historian Robert Crews argues the Afghanistan war was a mistake from day one and unpacks the Taliban, bin Laden

Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom on building a billion-dollar app, the future of social networks, and why everything w

Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #242

Ben Askren breaks down wrestling mastery, his MMA dominance, the Jake Paul loss, and why a robot could one day out-wrest

Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #241

Anki founder turned Waymo trucking lead Boris Sofman on why character beats humanoid form, why Cozmo died, and how auton

Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #240

Sci-fi legend Neal Stephenson on space, aliens, AI, VR, crypto, climate geoengineering, and why a good yarn is an evolut

Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #239

Historian Niall Ferguson on launching a free-speech university, the evolution of money and crypto, counterfactual world

Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Lex Fridman Podcast #238

NIH director Francis Collins defends pandemic science, Fauci, and gain-of-function oversight while making the case for h

Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream | Lex Fridman Podcast #237

A sociologist and former trucker explains how long-haul trucking collapsed into a near-minimum-wage job and what autonom

Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions | Lex Fridman Podcast #236

Legendary judoka and Olympic coach Jimmy Pedro breaks down what it takes to forge world champions like Kayla Harrison, R

Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing | Lex Fridman Podcast #235

Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina argues cheap rapid at-home COVID tests are the obvious, ignored solution being stran

Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234

Stephen Wolfram explains how a universe built from rewriting hypergraphs and 'all possible rules' makes physic

Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #233

Columbia neuroscientist Carl Hart argues drug effects are mostly positive, addiction stems from environment not chemistr

Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #232

Physicist Brian Greene unpacks quantum gravity, the Big Bang, consciousness, free will, aliens, and how mortality gives

Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights | Lex Fridman Podcast #231

Human rights strategist Alex Gladstein argues Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that smuggles financial freedom into authoritari

Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #230

Canadian artillery veteran Kelsi Sheren tells Lex Fridman about combat in Afghanistan, the trauma of holding a friend&#x

Richard Wrangham: Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #229

Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham explains how violence, cooking, and the killing of alpha males forged Homo sapie

RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death | Lex Fridman Podcast #228

RZA takes Lex Fridman through grief, God, kung fu, chess, and creativity, weaving Wu-Tang philosophy into questions abou

Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #227

Harvard philosopher Sean Kelly traces existentialism and nihilism and argues meaning comes from aliveness, listening, an

Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math | Lex Fridman Podcast #226

Stanford educator Jo Boaler argues math is a beautiful, visual, creative subject and anyone can learn it with the right

Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #225

A NIST physicist explains how light plus superconducting electronics could build brain-scale machines, then argues our u

Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224

Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, traces how he built the foundations of scientific Python and the economics

Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness | Lex Fridman Podcast #223

Olympic silver medalist Travis Stevens breaks down the art of judo and how injuries, brutal weight cuts, and heartbreaki

Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition | Lex Fridman Podcast #222

Pioneering cognitive scientist Jay McClelland on how mind emerges from neural networks, the magic of emergence, and the

Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221

Cyc creator Doug Lenat on his 37-year quest to give computers common sense through millions of hand-coded rules.

Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11 | Lex Fridman Podcast #220

A retired FDNY firefighter who survived Ground Zero and a 9/11-linked leukemia shares his story of brotherhood, faith, a

Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219

Donald Knuth reflects on a lifetime of programming, beauty in algorithms, free will in the Game of Life, and the meaning

Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218

VR pioneer Jaron Lanier argues there's no real AI, social media's incentives make us cruel, and human dignity

Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217

Legendary roboticist Rodney Brooks pushes back on AI hype while tracing the deep history and stubborn hard problems of b

Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines | Lex Fridman Podcast #216

A leading virologist explains why viruses outnumber us, how vaccines really work, and why broken trust hurt the COVID re

Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #215

OpenAI's Wojciech Zaremba explains GPT-3, Codex and Copilot while weaving in consciousness-as-compression, love as

Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214

Caltech historian Jed Buchwald takes Lex Fridman through Isaac Newton's genius, the philosophy of science, and how

Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built | Lex Fridman Podcast #213

Nobel laureate Barry Barish explains how LIGO measured gravitational waves with the most precise instrument humans have

Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #212

Joscha Bach argues we are software running on an ape brain, living inside a dream world our minds generate to model real

Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #211

Author Brian Muraresku argues psychedelic-spiked wine and ancient mystery rites secretly shaped Western religion and the

Matt Walker: Sleep | Lex Fridman Podcast #210

Sleep scientist Matt Walker explains why we sleep, how dreams build creativity, and whether chasing big dreams justifies

Luís and João Batalha: Fermat's Library and the Art of Studying Papers | Lex Fridman Podcast #209

The Fermat's Library founders make the case for open science, annotated papers, and finding hidden beauty in mathem

Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #208

Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory and why super-intelligent machines need not threaten hum

Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength | Lex Fridman Podcast #207

Strength legend Chris Duffin breaks down how he squatted and deadlifted 1,000 pounds for reps, plus the brutal childhood

Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running | Lex Fridman Podcast #205

Ultramarathon world-record holder Zach Bitter on running 100 miles, fasting and meat-based fueling, the never-quit mind,

Cumrun Vafa: String Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #204

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Caltech astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin explains the gravitational case for Planet Nine and the strange icy frontier a

Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy | Lex Fridman Podcast #200

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Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel | Lex Fridman Podcast #199

A legendary cartel pilot recounts smuggling tons of cocaine for Escobar, surviving Mexican torture, and escaping five pr

Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #198

Astrobiologist Sara Walker reframes life as the physics of existence, arguing assembly theory and causal history reveal

Jocko Willink: War, Leadership, and Discipline | Lex Fridman Podcast #197

Jocko Willink unpacks war, leadership, discipline, and jiu-jitsu, applying combat-tested principles to ego, teams, and t

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Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | Lex Fridman Podcast #195

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Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic | Lex Fridman Podcast #194

Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein makes the case for COVID's lab-leak origin, ivermectin, and the danger of cen

Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks | Lex Fridman Podcast #193

Rob Reid argues engineered pandemics are humanity's most likely near-term self-destruction risk, and cheap defenses

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191

Daniel Schmachtenberger maps why every powerful civilization self-terminates and how love, better sense-making, and emer

Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries | Lex Fridman Podcast #190

Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg takes Lex Fridman on a joyful tour of geometry, symmetry, primes, and why hard problems a

David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years | Lex Fridman Podcast #189

Harvard geneticist David Sinclair explains how aging is a loss of biological information that can be slowed, measured, a

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #188

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Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #187

Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek takes Lex Fridman from quarks and dark matter to consciousness, complementarity, and whethe

Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186

Kernel founder Bryan Johnson makes the case for non-invasively quantifying the brain to engineer better health, cognitio

Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #185

Sam Harris and Lex Fridman explore consciousness, the illusion of free will, psychedelics, AI risk, UFOs, and what makes

Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, Asteroids & Life in Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #184

A Caltech planetary scientist explains why moons may be more exciting than planets, and where life might hide in our sol

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Math Olympiad coach Po-Shen Loh explains how to teach invention, why hard problems are beautiful, and his incentive-alig

John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA | Lex Fridman Podcast #182

Legendary grappling coach John Danaher dissects mastery, fear, escapes, leg locks, and whether a machine could ever out-

Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks | Lex Fridman Podcast #181

Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov explains how oracle networks let smart contracts know real-world truth, reinventing fina

Jeremi Suri: History of American Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #180

Historian Jeremi Suri unpacks how American presidential power evolved from Lincoln to today, and why structure shapes le

Georges St-Pierre: The Science of Fighting | Lex Fridman Podcast #179

GSP unpacks the science of fighting, why he hates fighting but loves the art, fasting that cured his colitis, and walkin

Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #177

A computer scientist explains how evolution-inspired algorithms can outsmart humans by discovering creative solutions we

Robert Breedlove: Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #176

Robert Breedlove builds a sweeping first-principles case that money is speech, energy, and morality, and that Bitcoin fi

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Economist Tyler Cowen riffs with Lex Fridman on growth, weirdos, capitalism, crypto, art, food, and why being strange fu

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Nic Carter unpacks Bitcoin's core values, the blocksize wars, and why layered scaling, not bigger blocks, is the ri

Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses | Lex Fridman Podcast #172

A self-taught student founder explains how he built Librex, an anonymous Ivy League discussion app, to fight campus self

Anthony Pompliano: Bitcoin | Lex Fridman Podcast #171

Bitcoin evangelist Anthony Pompliano makes the case for scarce digital sound money as a tool for sovereignty, time, and

Ronald Sullivan: The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #170

Harvard Law's Ronald Sullivan defends everyone's right to counsel, even Harvey Weinstein, and warns that unive

Ryan Hall: Solving Martial Arts from First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #169

Ryan Hall dissects martial arts, systems thinking, free will, and AI from first principles with Lex Fridman.

Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin & Ethereum | Lex Fridman Podcast #168

Turing Award winner Silvio Micali explains how Algorand cracks the blockchain trilemma and why decentralization, money,

Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #167

Political correspondent Saagar Enjeti dissects power, charisma, the broken political pipeline, and the future of journal

Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media | Lex Fridman Podcast #166

Cal Newport unpacks why context-switching destroys focus, how email's hidden workflow wrecks productivity, and why

Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts | Lex Fridman #165

Catch-wrestling champion Josh Barnett and Lex Fridman trade Nietzsche, the philosophy of violence, and what combat revea

Andrew Huberman: Sleep, Dreams, Creativity, Fasting, and Neuroplasticity | Lex Fridman Podcast #164

Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman unpacks the biology of sleep, dreams, fasting, breathing, psychedelics, and neur

Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #163

Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman range across aliens, free speech, canceled friends, Jeffrey Epstein, gauge-theoretic econ

Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162

Legendary chip architect Jim Keller on graph-native AI hardware, Moore's law, consciousness, dreams, and the human

Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #161

Jason Calacanis breaks down GameStop, Robinhood, and why entrepreneurs who suffer to change the world are modern samurai

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160

JavaScript creator Brendan Eich on the language's frantic 10-day birth, the browser wars, and Brave's fight to

Richard Craib: WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading | Lex Fridman Podcast #159

Numerai founder Richard Craib explains his crowdsourced AI hedge fund and why WallStreetBets and GameStop signal a power

Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds | Lex Fridman Podcast #158

A teenage Zev Weinstein argues that radical philosophy is humanity's only escape from stagnation, while bravely fac

Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion | Lex Fridman Podcast #157

Rocket scientist Natalya Bailey breaks down in-space electric propulsion, nanoscale colloid thrusters, and why knowledge

Tim Dillon: Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #156

Tim Dillon and Lex Fridman riff on comedy, deplatforming, conspiracy theories, power, and why funny might be what saves

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Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #155

Max Tegmark on making AI intelligible, aligning powerful systems, the threat of autonomous weapons, and whether we'

Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | Lex Fridman Podcast #154

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues Oumuamua may be alien technology and that science must chase anomalies instead of

Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #153

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Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions | Lex Fridman Podcast #152

Wrestling legend Dan Gable on mental toughness, the science of art versus raw American grit, and turning tragedy into pu

Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #151

Rev's VP of engineering explains how AI and human transcribers combine to build the world's best speech-to-tex

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Lex Fridman plays The Stanley Parable, turning a quirky video game into a running meditation on free will, simulation, a

Michael Malice: Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos | Lex Fridman Podcast #150

Anarchist author Michael Malice argues the good guys can win, makes the case for peaceful secession, and trolls Lex with

Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149

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Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #148

Two longtime friends and machine learning professors riff on what ML really is, the meaning of education, and life advic

Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #147

Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on building a truly driverless car, scaling beyond Phoenix, and why aggression isn't the sa

Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset | Lex Fridman Podcast #146

Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina makes the engineering case for cheap at-home rapid COVID tests as a public health to

Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145

Johns Hopkins psychedelics researcher Matthew Johnson on how psilocybin, DMT, and addiction science reveal the mind'

Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144

Brown professor Michael Littman on reinforcement learning, why he is unmoved by AI doom, AlphaGo, and the social subtlet

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John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence | Lex Fridman Podcast #143

MMA coach John Clarke and Lex Fridman dig into violence, excellence, loyalty, love, and what makes a fighter truly great

Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything | Lex Fridman Podcast #142

MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis riffs on music, evolution, AI, and the meaning of life through the lens of 42

Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett joins Lex Fridman for a freewheeling talk on love, brain evolution, free will, and c

Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance | Lex Fridman Podcast #139

Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman breaks down fear, optimal performance, and how the brain constructs reality from

Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138

Objectivist philosopher Yaron Brook makes the full case for Ayn Rand's reason, rational selfishness, and unbridled

Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #137

Nobel-honored astrophysicist Alex Filippenko on dark energy, exploding stars, why we may be alone, and the universe know

Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136

Dan Carlin and Lex Fridman wander through evil, force, war, leaders, Putin, the Holocaust, civilizational collapse, and

Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness | Lex Fridman Podcast #134

Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman wrestle over genius, madness, depression, trolls, a broken political system, conspiracy,

Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease | Lex Fridman Podcast #133

MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis explains how human genetics is rewriting our understanding and treatment of d

George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132

George Hotz riffs on hacking the simulation, crypto, immortality, and why end-to-end neural nets beat Tesla's task-

Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131

Compiler legend Chris Lattner on programming language design, RISC-V chips, the end of Moore's law, and machine lea

Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #130

Scott Aaronson takes Lex through computational complexity, why consciousness may not be computable, and why P probably d

Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works | Lex Fridman Podcast #129

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett dismantles the triune-brain myth and explains how the brain predicts, constructs emo

Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #128

Anarchist author Michael Malice spars with Lex Fridman over trolling versus love, the case against democracy, and tearin

James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #126

Java creator James Gosling on the JVM, his C-emacs, Lisp, taming pointer bugs, leadership jerks, and choosing the Star T

Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace | Lex Fridman Podcast #125

Ryan Hall and Lex Fridman explore violence, power, grace, and jiu jitsu mastery, and the raw nature buried beneath civil

Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124

Stephen Wolfram explains how simple computational rules on hypergraphs could generate space, time, relativity, and quant

Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness | Lex Fridman Podcast #123

MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis on the origin of life, the epigenome, alien biology, suffering, and finding m

David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122

Navy commander David Fravor recounts chasing the 2004 Tic Tac UFO and argues it should inspire a leap in propulsion scie

Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121

Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda on loneliness, losing her best friend, and building an AI companion born from grief.

François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #120

Francois Chollet argues intelligence is the efficiency of acquiring new skills, not skill itself, and explains his ARC t

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Lex Fridman walks through his disciplined daily routine: mantras, two four-hour deep-work sessions, fasted running, keto

David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #119

Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains why the brain is not hardware plus software but a constantly self-rewiring '

Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown | Lex Fridman Podcast #118

Grant Sanderson on Feynman, exponential growth, teaching math visually, neural networks, GPT-3, and why beautiful explan

Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #117

Social psychologist Sheldon Solomon argues the fear of death secretly drives nearly everything humans build, believe, an

Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #116

MIT planetary scientist Sara Seager on hunting exoplanets, reading alien atmospheres for life, and finding hope after lo

Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #115

Vicarious co-founder Dileep George argues true AI must be brain-inspired, model the world, and run simulations rather th

Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch | Lex Fridman Podcast #114

MIT roboticist Russ Tedrake on why robots should embrace contact, softness, and physics instead of fighting gravity.

Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics | Lex Fridman Podcast #113

MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis on the beauty of the human genome, how evolution outsmarts engineers, and the

Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion | Lex Fridman Podcast #112

MIT plasma physicist Ian Hutchinson explains nuclear fusion and argues why science cannot answer every question, includi

Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity | Lex Fridman Podcast #111

Turing Award laureate Richard Karp walks Lex Fridman through the beauty of algorithms, NP-completeness, and why he bets

Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision | Lex Fridman Podcast #110

Computer vision pioneer Jitendra Malik on why machines still underestimate vision and must learn like children.

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

UNIX pioneer Brian Kernighan recounts Bell Labs' golden era and reflects on C, AWK, AMPL, programming languages, an

Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #108

Berkeley roboticist Sergey Levine argues robotics is the best way to understand intelligence, and that machines must lea

Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #107

Peter Singer and Lex Fridman explore the nature of suffering across humans, animals, and AI, plus ethics, utilitarianism

Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast #106

DeepMind's Matt Botvinick on how neuroscience and AI feed each other, from meta-learning in the prefrontal cortex t

You Are Your Own Existence Proof (Karl Friston) | AI Podcast Clips with Lex Fridman

Karl Friston explains the free energy principle: anything that exists is an inference machine proving its own existence.

Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine | Lex Fridman Podcast #105

MIT's Robert Langer, the most cited engineer in history, explains drug delivery, tissue engineering, and how to tur

David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage | Lex Fridman Podcast #104

Turing Award winner David Patterson explains how RISC and RAID reshaped computing, and why Moore's law is ending.

Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103

AGI pioneer Ben Goertzel lays out his decentralized, compassion-first path to beneficial superintelligence and immortali

Steven Pressfield: The War of Art | Lex Fridman Podcast #102

Steven Pressfield reframes war as a metaphor for the inner creative battle, casting Resistance as the ego's fearful

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues consciousness is a simulation the brain runs on itself, and reality is computatio

Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle | Lex Fridman Podcast #99

Neuroscientist Karl Friston unpacks the free energy principle, arguing existence itself is a kind of self-evidencing inf

Kate Darling: Social Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #98

MIT researcher Kate Darling explains why we treat robots like living things and what that reveals about human empathy.

Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive | Lex Fridman Podcast #97

MIT roboticist Sertac Karaman on why scaling autonomous cars and drones into human spaces is robotics' hardest chal

Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #96

Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman on going big, reading people, philanthropy, China, and steering AI toward good.

Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security | Lex Fridman Podcast #95

Berkeley security expert Dawn Song explains how attackers fool AI systems, steal training data, and why humans are the w

Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #94

OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever explains why deep learning works, what's missing for reasoning and AGI, and how AI pow

Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #93

Daphne Koller explains how machine learning plus stem-cell 'disease in a dish' models could transform drug dis

Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider | Lex Fridman Podcast #92

A Cambridge particle physicist explains the Large Hadron Collider, the standard model, and why the universe exists at al

Turing Test: Can Machines Think?

Lex Fridman dissects Turing's 1950 paper, its nine objections, and rival benchmarks to ask whether machines can tru

Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #91

Jack Dorsey on building Square at scale, why Bitcoin should be the internet's native currency, AI, fasting, and fin

Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus | Lex Fridman Podcast #90

Computational biologist Dmitry Korkin explains how bioinformatics maps the coronavirus's proteins to speed up drugs

What is Wolfram Language? (Stephen Wolfram) | AI Podcast Clips

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Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89

Stephen Wolfram explains why simple computational rules generate the universe's complexity, and unveils his quest f

Geometric Unity - A Theory of Everything (Eric Weinstein) | AI Podcast Clips

Eric Weinstein walks Lex Fridman through Geometric Unity, his 30-year theory of everything, and why he released it outsi

Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas & Institutions | Lex Fridman Podcast #88

Eric Weinstein argues America's institutions are broken by stagnation and unveils why he finally released his Geome

Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes | Lex Fridman Podcast #87

Richard Dawkins explores evolution, intelligence, memes, simulation theory, and why we are the lucky ones to be born.

David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86

DeepMind's David Silver explains how AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero used self-play reinforcement learning to master

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Roger Penrose argues consciousness is non-computational, rooted in quantum gravity in brain microtubules, and that the u

Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83

Philosopher Nick Bostrom unpacks the simulation argument and the promise and peril of superintelligent AI with Lex Fridm

Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game | Lex Fridman Podcast #82

Simon Sinek makes the case that leadership, work, and life itself are infinite games where vision and service beat winni

Ethereum Basics (Vitalik Buterin) | AI Podcast Clips

Vitalik Buterin explains how Ethereum grew from a Bitcoin tweak into a global smart-contract platform.

Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81

Berkeley roboticist Anca Dragan on why robots must model messy humans, learn hidden rewards, and treat human-robot inter

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80

Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin explains blockchains, money, proof-of-stake, and why decentralization matters for th

David Goggins 48 Hour Challenge - 4 Miles Every 4 Hours | Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman attempts a David Goggins 48-mile challenge solo, running four miles every four hours while reflecting on twe

Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #79

Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues time is fundamental, space is emergent, and Einstein's quantum revolution r

Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #78

Ann Druyan on Cosmos, her love story with Carl Sagan, the Voyager golden record, and science as the purest form of love.

Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #77

Filmmaker Alex Garland and Lex Fridman explore AI, consciousness, free will, and the poetry of science behind Ex Machina

John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology | Lex Fridman Podcast #76

Physicist John Hopfield on how biology's messy complexity outpaces artificial neural networks, and what physics can

Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75

Marcus Hutter explains AIXI, his single-equation mathematical theory of universal intelligence built on compression, Occ

Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #74

Michael I. Jordan argues modern AI isn't intelligence at all, but the birth of a new human-centric engineering disc

Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #73

Andrew Ng on how he democratized AI education, why scale beats clever architecture, and the messy realities of deploying

Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing | Lex Fridman Podcast #72

Scott Aaronson demystifies quantum computing, separating its genuine revolutionary core from the hype, and connects it t

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Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #71

Vladimir Vapnik argues true intelligence is finding a few universal 'predicates' that let machines learn from

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Legendary chip architect Jim Keller explains why Moore's Law isn't dead, how computers really work, and why fi

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #69

Philosopher David Chalmers explores the hard problem of consciousness, panpsychism, simulation theory, AI minds, and whe

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YouTube's head of search and discovery explains how the recommendation algorithm actually works and the responsibil

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Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & UBI | Lex Fridman Podcast #67

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman argues automation isn't killing jobs, the US safety net is needlessly cruel, and politi

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Ayanna Howard: Human-Robot Interaction & Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems | Lex Fridman Podcast #66

Roboticist Ayanna Howard on why we don't want perfect robots, the ethics of safety-critical AI, and trusting machin

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #65

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explores his two-systems theory of mind, the limits of deep learning, and the gap between

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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #63

Historian Stephen Kotkin dissects the nature of unconstrained power through Stalin, Putin, and the lessons of the 20th c

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #62

Donald Knuth reflects on a life of algorithms, beauty in code and typography, mortality, faith, and why P probably equal

Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61

AI researcher Melanie Mitchell argues true intelligence rests on concepts and analogy-making, and warns we're vastl

Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right | Lex Fridman Podcast #60

Theoretical physicist Jim Gates explores supersymmetry, string theory, error-correcting codes hidden in physics equation

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59

Sebastian Thrun on building self-driving cars, flying cars, and democratizing education, plus why he loves being alive i

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Rohit Prasad: Amazon Alexa and Conversational AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #57

Amazon's Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad breaks down how voice assistants are built, why trust matters, and the l

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, and the Path to AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #56

Turing Award winner Judea Pearl argues that causal reasoning, not deep learning's curve-fitting, is the missing pat

Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #55

Comedian Whitney Cummings argues robots may be humanity's salvation, while unpacking neurology, codependency, surve

Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, AI & the Arc of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #54

Ray Dalio breaks down truth-seeking, idea meritocracy, how the economic machine works, money vs. credit, AI, and the arc

Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #53

Noam Chomsky argues language is an internal system for thought, science has limits, and deep learning is engineering, no

Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare | Lex Fridman Podcast #52

Legendary MIT professor Gilbert Strang on why linear algebra deserves more love than calculus, and the beauty of matrice

Dava Newman: Space Exploration, Space Suits, and Life on Mars | Lex Fridman Podcast #51

MIT's Dava Newman on why we'll find past life on Mars, the skin-tight BioSuit, and saving spaceship Earth firs

Michael Kearns: Algorithmic Fairness, Privacy & Ethics | Lex Fridman Podcast #50

Michael Kearns explains how fairness, privacy, and ethics can be encoded into algorithms, and where the math runs into h

Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Lex Fridman Podcast #49

Elon Musk and Lex Fridman explore Neuralink, consciousness, AI existential risk, Tesla autonomy, and humanity's pla

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast #48

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup explains how abstraction, types, and zero-overhead design built one of the world's mo

Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation | Lex Fridman Podcast #47

Physicist Sean Carroll makes the case that the many-worlds interpretation is the simplest, most honest reading of quantu

Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin | Lex Fridman Podcast #46

Garry Kasparov reflects on chess, his Deep Blue loss, the limits of AI in open systems, and the danger of Putin.

Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #45

Michio Kaku riffs on aliens, the multiverse, digital immortality, terraforming Mars, and why string theory is the only g

David Ferrucci: The Story of IBM Watson Winning in Jeopardy | AI Podcast Clips

IBM Watson's lead engineer David Ferrucci explains how a self-contained machine beat the best humans at Jeopardy.

David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #44

The mind behind IBM Watson explains why true intelligence isn't prediction but the ability to reason, explain, and

Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42

Peter Norvig on writing the field-defining AI textbook, why utility functions are the hard part, and the limits of deep

Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory and Black Holes | Lex Fridman Podcast #41

String theory pioneer Leonard Susskind explores quantum mechanics, black holes, intuition in physics, and whether realit

Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment | Lex Fridman Podcast #40

MIT's Regina Barzilay on surviving cancer and using deep learning to detect disease early, design drugs, and rethin

Colin Angle: iRobot CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #39

iRobot CEO Colin Angle on why the Roomba won, why most robotics companies die, and the future of the self-maintaining ho

François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #38

Keras creator Francois Chollet on why intelligence explosion is a myth, the limits of deep learning, and AI-driven manip

Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots | Lex Fridman Podcast #37

Roboticist Vijay Kumar on agile flying robots, swarms, autonomy without GPS, and why batteries limit the dream of flying

Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, ConvNets, and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #36

Deep learning pioneer Yann LeCun on self-supervised learning, why neural nets need world models, and why human intellige

Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research | Lex Fridman Podcast #35

fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard on making deep learning accessible, training fast on a single GPU, and why anyone can do i

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34

AI historian Pamela McCorduck recalls the founding fathers of AI, the field's mythic roots, and why she rejects the

Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Martin | Lex Fridman Podcast #33

Lockheed Martin CTO Keoki Jackson on space exploration, autonomy and AI in defense systems, stealth, and nuclear deterre

Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid | Lex Fridman Podcast #32

Harvard stem-cell biologist Paola Arlotta explains how the human brain self-assembles and how brain organoids let scient

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31

George Hotz on comma.ai, openpilot, why lidar is a crutch, level-2 driving, driver monitoring, and merging with AI.

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO | Lex Fridman Podcast #30

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI as a democratizing platform, data dignity, deepfakes, content moderation, and leading te

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Lex Fridman Podcast #29

Spotify's Gustav Soderstrom on how streaming reshaped music, the playlist machine-learning revolution, and the unta

Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA | Lex Fridman Podcast #28

Self-driving pioneer Chris Urmson on autonomy's evolution from DARPA races to Aurora, lidar's role, level-2 da

Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers - China and Silicon Valley | Lex Fridman Podcast #27

AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee on China vs Silicon Valley, the future of jobs, and what facing death taught him.

Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #26

Physicist Sean Carroll on emergence, the universe as computation, simulation theory, alien life, the origin of life, and

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25

Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory of intelligence and why understanding the neocortex is t

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Lex Fridman Podcast #24

MIT's Rosalind Picard on affective computing, the ethics of emotion-reading AI, wearables that detect seizures, and

Rajat Monga: TensorFlow | Lex Fridman Podcast #22

TensorFlow lead Rajat Monga on open-sourcing the library, building its ecosystem, and the future of machine learning.

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

Compiler legend Chris Lattner on LLVM, Swift, TPUs, machine learning compilers, and his brief stint leading Tesla Autopi

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20

DeepMind's Oriol Vinyals on how AlphaStar beat top StarCraft pros and what it reveals about learning, language, and

MIT 6.S093: Introduction to Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture argues AI must keep humans deeply in the loop during both training and real-world operati

Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) | Lex Fridman Podcast #19

Ian Goodfellow, inventor of GANs, explains how generative adversarial networks work and where deep learning and AI secur

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18

Elon Musk explains Tesla Autopilot's vision, the new FSD computer, why driver monitoring may soon hurt safety, and

Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #17

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman on building safe AGI, the company's capped-profit structure, GPT-2, Dota self-play,

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16

Eric Weinstein on artificial life, the dangers of self-replicating software, the collapse of theoretical physics, academ

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #15

MIT roboticist Leslie Kaelbling on reinforcement learning, planning under uncertainty, abstraction, and what to build in

Karl Iagnemma & Oscar Beijbom (Aptiv Autonomous Mobility) - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Aptiv leaders Karl Iagnemma and Oscar Beijbom explain why neural networks must be 'caged' in safety systems fo

Oliver Cameron (CEO, Voyage) - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron explains how he built a self-driving car startup targeting retirement communities instead of b

Drago Anguelov (Waymo) - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Waymo's Drago Anguelov explains how machine learning, simulation, and hybrid systems tame the long tail of autonomo

Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14

Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt on his path from BattleBots and Twitch to building fully driverless cars at scale.

Self-Driving Cars: State of the Art (2019)

Lex Fridman's 2019 MIT lecture surveying the state of self-driving cars, key players, sensor tradeoffs, and human-c

MIT 6.S091: Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL)

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture introducing deep reinforcement learning: how agents learn to act through trial, error, an

Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13

MIT's Tomaso Poggio explores the nature of intelligence, how brains and deep networks learn, and whether machines c

Deep Learning State of the Art (2019)

Lex Fridman surveys the 2017-2018 breakthroughs in deep learning, from NLP transformers and BERT to self-driving, AutoML

Deep Learning Basics: Introduction and Overview

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture surveys deep learning fundamentals: neural networks, training, CNNs, GANs, NLP, and reinf

Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #12

CMU's Tuomas Sandholm explains how his AI Libratus beat top human poker pros and why game theory will reshape busin

Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #11

Juergen Schmidhuber on self-improving machines, the simplicity of intelligence, artificial curiosity, LSTMs, and AI'

Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #10

Berkeley professor Pieter Abbeel on deep reinforcement learning, robot manipulation, self-play, imitation learning, and

Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9

AI pioneer Stuart Russell on why we must build machines that are uncertain about human objectives to keep them safe.

Eric Schmidt: Google | Lex Fridman Podcast #8

Eric Schmidt on the history of computing, scaling platforms, five-year planning, the near-term promise of AI, and leader

Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | Lex Fridman Podcast #7

Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood on community-building, the joy of programming, strict systems, and why coding even

Guido van Rossum: Python | Lex Fridman Podcast #6

Python creator Guido van Rossum on language design, consciousness, the limits of AI, and stepping down as benevolent dic

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #5

Statistical learning pioneer Vladimir Vapnik argues true learning needs invariants and predicates, not deep learning

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #4

Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio on the limits of neural nets, causal reasoning, AI safety, and instilling moral valu

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason | Lex Fridman Podcast #3

Steven Pinker argues AI existential-threat fears are magical thinking, and that reason and engineering culture make AI a

Christof Koch: Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #2

Neuroscientist Christof Koch explains why intelligence and consciousness are different, why machines may never feel, and

Ilya Sutskever: OpenAI Meta-Learning and Self-Play | MIT Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Ilya Sutskever explains why deep learning works and walks through OpenAI's research on meta-learning, reinforcement

Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 | Lex Fridman Podcast #1

MIT physicist Max Tegmark explores intelligence, consciousness, AGI safety, and the value alignment problem with Lex Fri

MIT AGI: Cognitive Architecture (Nate Derbinsky)

Nate Derbinsky explains cognitive architecture as a path to AGI, focusing on the Soar system and the surprising value of

Sterling Anderson, Co-Founder, Aurora - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Aurora co-founder Sterling Anderson on a decade of self-driving cars, from MIT shared-control research to Tesla Autopilo

Emilio Frazzoli, CTO, nuTonomy - MIT Self-Driving Cars

nuTonomy CTO Emilio Frazzoli argues self-driving's real value is shared mobility, and the hardest problem is formal

Stephen Wolfram: Computational Universe | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Stephen Wolfram on mining the computational universe, why simple programs create complexity, and what AGI means for huma

Lisa Feldman Barrett: How the Brain Creates Emotions | MIT Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how the brain constructs emotions and what that means for building human-li

Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Waymo's perception lead explains how deep learning, sensors, and massive simulation turn a self-driving demo into a

Ray Kurzweil: Future of Intelligence | MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Ray Kurzweil traces the neocortex, deep learning's rise, and his case for merging with AI to reach longevity escape

MIT AGI: Building machines that see, learn, and think like people (Josh Tenenbaum)

MIT's Josh Tenenbaum argues true AI requires reverse-engineering how human babies build models of the world, not ju

MIT AGI: Artificial General Intelligence

Lex Fridman opens MIT's AGI course, framing intelligence as an engineering problem and previewing the lineup of spe

MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Human Sensing

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture on using deep learning and computer vision to sense human drivers for safer human-centere

MIT 6.S094: Computer Vision

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture on how machines see: convolutional neural networks, semantic scene segmentation, and the

MIT 6.S094: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture on deep reinforcement learning, from Q-learning and DQN to AlphaGo Zero and the DeepTraff

MIT Self-Driving Cars (2018)

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture argues human-centered semi-autonomy beats full self-driving, using Tesla Autopilot data o

MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

Lex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture introduces deep learning fundamentals and why it matters for human-centered self-d

MIT Sloan: Intro to Machine Learning (in 360/VR)

Lex Fridman's non-technical MIT Sloan guest lecture on what machine learning can and cannot do, filmed in 360/VR.

Sertac Karaman (MIT) on Motion Planning in a Complex World - MIT Self-Driving Cars

MIT professor Sertac Karaman recounts building DARPA Urban Challenge self-driving cars and the motion-planning algorithm

Chris Gerdes (Stanford) on Technology, Policy and Vehicle Safety - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Stanford's Chris Gerdes on building autonomous race cars and shaping the first US federal self-driving vehicle safe

MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Human-Centered Semi-Autonomous Vehicles

Lex Fridman explains how deep learning perceives the human driver inside semi-autonomous cars to build trust and safety.

MIT 6.S094: Recurrent Neural Networks for Steering Through Time

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture explains backpropagation and recurrent neural networks, building toward LSTMs and their u

MIT 6.S094: Convolutional Neural Networks for End-to-End Learning of the Driving Task

Lex Fridman's MIT lecture on convolutional neural networks and how they enable end-to-end learning of the self-driv

MIT 6.S094: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Motion Planning

Lex Fridman teaches deep reinforcement learning and Q-learning, then unveils DeepTraffic, a browser-based competition to

MIT 6.S094: Introduction to Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman's opening MIT lecture on deep learning for self-driving cars, framing driving as chess versus conversat

Foundations and Challenges of Deep Learning (Yoshua Bengio)

Yoshua Bengio explains why deep learning works: compositionality beats the curse of dimensionality, and unsupervised lea

Torch Tutorial (Alex Wiltschko, Twitter)

Alex Wiltschko gives a practical tutorial on Torch and Twitter's Autograd, explaining automatic differentiation as

Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)

CMU's Ruslan Salakhutdinov gives a foundational lecture on unsupervised deep learning, from sparse coding to GANs.

Deep Learning for Computer Vision (Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI)

Andrej Karpathy delivers a deep-dive lecture on how convolutional neural networks revolutionized computer vision.

Sequence to Sequence Deep Learning (Quoc Le, Google)

Quoc Le explains sequence-to-sequence deep learning, from email auto-reply to translation, attention, and memory-augment

Deep Learning for Speech Recognition (Adam Coates, Baidu)

Adam Coates of Baidu explains how end-to-end deep learning replaced traditional pipelines to build accurate speech recog

Theano Tutorial (Pascal Lamblin, MILA)

A hands-on tutorial on Theano, the symbolic math compiler for deep learning, taught by Pascal Lamblin of MILA.

Foundations of Deep Learning (Hugo Larochelle, Twitter)

Hugo Larochelle delivers a one-hour foundations lecture on feedforward neural networks, training, backpropagation, and d

Deep Reinforcement Learning (John Schulman, OpenAI)

John Schulman gives a foundational lecture on deep reinforcement learning, covering policy gradients, Q-learning, and wh

Nuts and Bolts of Applying Deep Learning (Andrew Ng)

Andrew Ng shares practical lessons for organizing deep learning projects, from bias-variance analysis to building a care

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (Richard Socher, Salesforce)

Richard Socher explains deep learning for NLP: word vectors, recurrent networks, and dynamic memory networks for general

TensorFlow Tutorial (Sherry Moore, Google Brain)

Google Brain's Sherry Moore gives a hands-on TensorFlow tutorial, building linear regression and MNIST digit-recogn

Jimmy Pedro: Judo | Take It Uneasy Podcast

Judo legend Jimmy Pedro on his father-coach, surviving a career-ending neck injury, building US champions, and Judo'