Dwarkesh Podcast

Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

Fall of the Incas & Aztecs.

Oct 1 • Dwarkesh Patel

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September 2026

Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement

“We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI.”

Sep 17 • Dwarkesh Patel

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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”

Sep 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

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1:37:01

Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data

Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements

Sep 8 • Dwarkesh Patel and Jerry Han

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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face

"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."

Sep 1 • Dwarkesh Patel

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2:20:32

August 2026

The rise and fall of agent civilizations

The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained

Aug 31 • Dwarkesh Patel

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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

Aug 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

"Every force is screeching towards centralization."

Aug 25 • Dwarkesh Patel

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1:16:52

Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?

A debate about recursive self-improvement.

Aug 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

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8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning

Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.

Aug 7 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x

The end of cheap compute?

Aug 3 • Dwarkesh Patel

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July 2026

Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years

If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over…

Jul 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

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