Dwarkesh Patel hosts Dwarkesh Podcast, a show of in-depth interviews published on YouTube, podcast apps, and a Substack publication. Through the podcast, Dwarkesh has interviewed AI researchers and company founders about work at the frontier of AI research and development. With Gavin Leech, Dwarkesh compiled those conversations into The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025, published by Stripe Press with accompanying definitions, graphics, and footnotes.123
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- Host
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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Channel and publications
Dwarkesh Patel hosts Dwarkesh Podcast; episodes from 2020 featured guests such as economists Bryan Caplan and Tyler Cowen and computer scientist Scott Aaronson. The show describes itself as deeply researched interviews and is released on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Substack.45612
Since 2023 the podcast has featured long interviews with AI lab leaders and researchers, including Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Andrej Karpathy.78910
Publications
In October 2025, Stripe Press released The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025, which Patel compiled with Gavin Leech from the podcast's conversations with people at the frontier of AI research.3
Work and contributions
Dwarkesh Podcast Show, channel or publication
Hosts the podcast's interviews, published on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Substack.12
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 Show, channel or publication
Co-compiled, with Gavin Leech, a Stripe Press book built from the podcast's conversations about AI research and development.3
Timeline
- Published an early Dwarkesh Podcast episode, an interview with economist Bryan Caplan.4
- Interviewed Ilya Sutskever, then OpenAI's Chief Scientist, on the podcast.7
- Interviewed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the podcast.8
- Interviewed Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on the podcast.9
- Released The Scaling Era, an oral history of AI compiled with Gavin Leech, through Stripe Press.3
- Interviewed Andrej Karpathy on the podcast.10
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References
10 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026
- About - Dwarkesh Podcast
- Dwarkesh Podcast
- The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 is out now
- Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas (Dwarkesh Podcast)
- Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset (Dwarkesh Podcast)
- Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity (Dwarkesh Podcast)
- Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) episode (Dwarkesh Podcast)
- Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) episode (Dwarkesh Podcast)
- Demis Hassabis episode (Dwarkesh Podcast)
- Andrej Karpathy episode (Dwarkesh Podcast)