Dean Ball is leaving the podcast

Listen now | In his final episode as co-host, Dean discusses the long-term future of humanity.

Apr 16 • 

Timothy B. Lee

 and 

Dean W. Ball

4

57:53

Charles Yang on AI and Science

Will AI Revolutionize Science?

Apr 7 • 

Dean W. Ball

, 

Timothy B. Lee

, and 

Charles Yang

1

1:01:57

March 2025

James Grimmelmann on the copyright threat to AI companies

"For a lot of authors this is as much a moral crusade as an economic one."

Mar 19 • 

Timothy B. Lee

, 

James Grimmelmann

, and 

Dean W. Ball

4

3

53:06

February 2025

Andrew Lee on running an AI email startup

Tim's brother goes deep on the practicalities of building on top of fast-changing AI models.

Feb 27 • 

Timothy B. Lee

, 

Dean W. Ball

, and 

Andrew Lee

2

2

1:01:13

Dean and Tim on Deep Research and the Paris Summit

Global attitudes toward AI safety and the future of policy research

Feb 21 • 

Dean W. Ball

 and 

Timothy B. Lee

1

2

1:03:29

Kashmir Hill on falling love with ChatGPT

Users are customizing chatbots like ChatGPT to fulfill emotional and even erotic needs, often bypassing built-in safeguards.

Feb 12 • 

Timothy B. Lee

, 

Dean W. Ball

, and 

Kashmir Hill

52:14

Sophia Tung on riding a self-driving taxi in China

How good are Chinese AVs?

Feb 5 • 

Dean W. Ball

, 

Sophia Tung

, and 

Timothy B. Lee

2

1

1:03:16

January 2025

Dean and Tim on DeepSeek and AI progress

Our first non-interview episode.

Jan 29 • 

Dean W. Ball

 and 

Timothy B. Lee

9

3

57:11

Nathan Labenz on the future of AI scaling

“None of this seems like it should work.The fact that it does should keep us fairly humble about how far it could go.”

Jan 27 • 

Timothy B. Lee

, 

Dean W. Ball

, and 

The Cognitive Revolution

4

1:18:55

Lennart Heim on the AI diffusion rule

"It would be a lie to say this is not going to have any economic impact"

Jan 23 • 

Dean W. Ball

, 

Timothy B. Lee

, and 

Lennart Heim

1

1:06:16

Sam Hammond on getting government ready for AI

"Once capabilities get demonstrated, we should start to brace for impact."

Jan 20 • 

Timothy B. Lee

, 

Dean W. Ball

, and 

Samuel Hammond

3

58:00

Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity

A prominent AI safety advocate explores how doomers differ from skeptics.

Jan 16 • 

Timothy B. Lee

, 

Dean W. Ball

, and 

Ajeya Cotra

6

14

1:13:23