Dwarkesh Patel
Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast
Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, a long-form interview show on AI, technology and history, and author of The Scaling Era (Stripe Press, 2025).
Key arguments & positions
- Argues that AI's economic impact is being underestimated because most analysis ignores how quickly the capabilities themselves are still improving.
- Treats long-form, heavily prepared interviewing as a way to make frontier AI research legible to a general audience.
Accomplishments
- Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, interviewing figures including Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Blair, Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei.
- Author of The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 (Stripe Press, 2025).
- Named to the TIME 100 AI list in 2024.
Papers & key writings
Links
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