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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1:03:48

Dean is back!

We talked about Claude Code and recursive self-improvement.

Feb 8 • Timothy B. Lee

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1:00:13

April 2025

Dean Ball is leaving the podcast

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

Apr 16, 2025 • Timothy B. Lee and Dean W. Ball

5

57:53

Charles Yang on AI and Science

Will AI Revolutionize Science?

Apr 7, 2025 • Dean W. Ball, Timothy B. Lee, and Charles Yang

1

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, 2025 • Timothy B. Lee, James Grimmelmann, and Dean W. Ball

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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, 2025 • Timothy B. Lee, Dean W. Ball, and Andrew Lee

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2

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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, 2025 • Dean W. Ball and Timothy B. Lee

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2

1:03:29

Kashmir Hill on falling in love with ChatGPT

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

Feb 12, 2025 • 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, 2025 • Dean W. Ball, Sophia Tung, and Timothy B. Lee

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1

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1:03:16

January 2025

Dean and Tim on DeepSeek and AI progress

Our first non-interview episode.

Jan 29, 2025 • Dean W. Ball and Timothy B. Lee

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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, 2025 • Timothy B. Lee, Dean W. Ball, and The Cognitive Revolution

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