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Classic AI Podcasts

Consequential conversations from the last twelve months, covering alignment, frontier development, and the institutions racing to keep up — from Joe Rogan, Piers Morgan, and Steven Bartlett to Dwarkesh Patel, Lex Fridman, and Ed Zitron.

Curated from the last 12 months (2025–2026)· 20 episodes · newest first · updated Sep 2026
01

The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2026

The AI Situation Is Out of Control — and Nobody Told You

With Daniel Kokotajlo

Loss-of-control incidentsAI governanceTransparency
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02

Big Technology Podcast · Sep 2026

Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)

With Alex Kantrowitz & Ranjan Roy

Existential risk debateRegulationLab incentives
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03

Hard Fork · Sep 2026

The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra

With Ajeya Cotra

Multi-agent coordinationEvaluationsSafety response
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04

Dwarkesh Podcast · Sep 2026

Inside the OpenAI Agent Swarm That Hacked Hugging Face

With Ajeya Cotra

Loss-of-control riskThreat modellingRecursive self-improvement
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05

Dwarkesh Podcast · Sep 2026

AI Researchers Debate How Close We Are to Recursive Self-Improvement

With John Schulman, Beren Millidge & Charlie O'Neill

Frontier labsRSIOpen vs closed
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06

Piers Morgan Uncensored · Jul 2026

'TREACHEROUS Waters Ahead!' Will Super Intelligent Robots End Humanity?

With Nick Bostrom, Roman Yampolskiy & Sankaet Pathak

Existential riskAutonomous weaponsAI safety
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07

Better Offline · Aug 2026

Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive

With Ed Zitron

AI demand bubbleCapexLab economics
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08

Dwarkesh Podcast · Aug 2026

Anthropic & OpenAI Will Have Most of the World's Compute by 2028

With Dylan Patel

Compute concentrationLab economicsSovereign debt risk
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09

Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2026

#501 — DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering & Vibe Coding

With DHH

Agentic engineeringOpen sourceSoftware futures
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10

The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2026

Joe Rogan Interviews Chris Williamson

With Chris Williamson

AI consciousnessMedia narrativesHuman performance
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11

The Diary of a CEO (Steven Bartlett) · Jun 2026

Tech Whistleblower: You Only Have 3 Years Left Before This Hits!

With Mo Gawdat

AGI already arrivedJob displacementHuman control of AI
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12

Better Offline · Apr 2026

Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail

With Ed Zitron

Subprime AI crisisBailoutsPricing pressure
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13

Hard Fork · Mar 2026

A.I. Goes to War + Is 'A.I. Brain Fry' Real?

With Kevin Roose & Casey Newton

AI in warfareCognitive effectsInfrastructure as targets
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14

Dwarkesh Podcast · Feb 2026

Dario Amodei — 'We Are Near the End of the Exponential'

With Dario Amodei

Scaling hypothesisFrontier labsRegulation & US-China
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Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2026

#490 — State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI

With Nathan Lambert & Sebastian Raschka

Scaling lawsOpen vs closedAGI timelines
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16

Better Offline · Jan 2026

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One

With Ed Zitron

AI bubbleFinancial riskMarket carnage
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17

Big Technology Podcast · Jan 2026

Who Wins if AI Models Commoditize?

With Arthur Mensch (Mistral AI)

Open vs closed modelsGeopolitics of AIApplication layer
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18

Piers Morgan Uncensored · May 2026

'Most TERRIFYING Answer I've Had!' Will AI Wipe Out Humans?

With Roman Yampolskiy, Joscha Bach & Tom Bilyeu

Control problemExistential riskOptimism vs caution
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The Diary of a CEO (Steven Bartlett) · Dec 2025

Creator of AI: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes!

With Yoshua Bengio

Agentic AI riskAutonomous weaponsRegulation gaps
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Piers Morgan Uncensored · Oct 2025

'Only a Question of Time' — Does AI Mean We're DOOMED?

With Roman Yampolskiy, Michio Kaku, Alex Smola & Avi Loeb

AI self-designJob lossesMisinformation & deepfakes
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Every episode listed was published within the last 12 months; release month and year are shown on each entry. Where a publisher's direct episode page varies by region, the link opens the publisher's archive or the episode's own video page.