Sophia Tung on the state of autonomous vehicles

Waymo still has an edge, but Chinese companies may be catching up.

20 hrs ago • Timothy B. Lee and Sophia Tung

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Divyansh Kaushik on the robotics race between China and the US

Chinese robots have been caught phoning home to Beijing. What should the US do about it?

May 13 • Divyansh Kaushik and Timothy B. Lee

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1:05:31

April 2026

Alex Imas explains why AI (probably) won't put everyone out of work

The University of Chicago economist argues that the jobs of the future will be tied to human relationships.

Apr 29 • Timothy B. Lee and Alex Imas

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Sayash Kapoor on Claude Mythos as normal technology

"AI is going to be a genuinely transformative technology. And that includes this ability to find and perhaps even develop exploits for vulnerabilities."

Apr 13 • Timothy B. Lee, Kai Williams, and Sayash Kapoor

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Nat Purser explains how progressives are thinking about AI

"If you stay in the 'it doesn't even do anything' camp, you're locking yourself out of the conversation."

Apr 3 • Nat Purser and Timothy B. Lee

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March 2026

Ryan Avent on self-driving cars and the future of the labor market

Tim just won a 16-year-old bet. What are the lessons for the next decade?

Mar 22 • Timothy B. Lee and Ryan Avent

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Joel Becker on METR's famous time horizons chart

"When I see estimates about people being 700% more productive, the first thing that pops into my mind is skepticism."

Mar 14 • Timothy B. Lee, Kai Williams, and Joel Becker

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Pete Hegseth's war on Anthropic (with Alan Rozenshtein and Kevin Frazier)

Our first crossover episode!

Mar 9 • Timothy B. Lee, Dean W. Ball, Kevin Frazier, and Alan Rozenshtein

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February 2026

Dean on the AI Action Summit in India

And a showdown at the Pentagon.

Feb 26 • Timothy B. Lee and Dean W. Ball

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Kai Williams on the many masks LLMs wear

"All fine-tuning is character training."

Feb 22 • Timothy B. Lee and Kai Williams

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46:34

AI safety in India, AV operators in the Philippines

Is the global AI safety movement focusing on the wrong threats?

Feb 16 • Timothy B. Lee and Dean W. Ball

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Dean is back!

We talked about Claude Code and recursive self-improvement.

Feb 8 • Timothy B. Lee

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