Archive - Dwarkesh Podcast

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

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

7 hrs ago • Dwarkesh Patel

2:20:32

August 2026

The rise and fall of agent civilizations

The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained

Aug 31 • Dwarkesh Patel

24:40

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

Aug 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

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

"Every force is screeching towards centralization."

Aug 25 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:16:52

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

A debate about recursive self-improvement.

Aug 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:12:31

8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning

Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.

Aug 7 • Dwarkesh Patel

8:37

Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x

The end of cheap compute?

Aug 3 • Dwarkesh Patel

11:17

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

Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.

Jul 10 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:38:24

The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI

Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Hong Kong MTR's business model

Jul 1 • Dwarkesh Patel

June 2026

Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math

Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?

Jun 30 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:33:39

The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job

Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.

Jun 26 • Dwarkesh Patel

19:52

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