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Dwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Patel's file: a student podcast that somehow became the long-form interrogation room where frontier AI researchers explain what they think is coming.
Patel started a tiny long-form interview show as The Lunar Society and, within a few years, became one of the places frontier researchers and AI executives went to explain their worldview in public. The podcast became an oral history of the scaling era while the era was still happening.
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HOW THE HELL DID DWARKESH PATEL GET HERE?
Aug 31, 2020
THE LUNAR SOCIETY STARTS WITH LONG CONVERSATIONS
An early episode with economist Robin Hanson shows Patel’s original format already centered on unusually long, idea-heavy interviews rather than news-cycle commentary.
RECEIPTS: Dwarkesh Patelfirst-party
2023
THE PODCAST MOVES INTO FRONTIER AI
Patel interviewed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about scaling, AGI, large models and the economics and safety questions surrounding frontier systems.
RECEIPTS: Dwarkesh Patelfirst-party
Apr 18, 2024
ZUCKERBERG SITS FOR THE LONG VERSION
Patel interviewed Mark Zuckerberg about Llama 3, open models, energy constraints, AGI and the economics of ever-larger systems.
RECEIPTS: Dwarkesh Patelfirst-party
Mar 25, 2025
THE INTERVIEWS BECOME A BOOK
Patel released The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025, organizing highlights from conversations with scientists, CEOs, economists and philosophers into a historical record of the boom.
RECEIPTS: Dwarkesh Patelfirst-party
Dec 2025
HE DEFINES THE SHOW AS A RECORD OF THE REVOLUTION
Patel wrote that his goal was for the important debates of the coming technological transformation to happen on the podcast and to happen well.
RECEIPTS: Dwarkesh Patelfirst-party
Feb 13, 2026
THE FRONTIER LABS KEEP COMING BACK
Patel hosted Amodei again for a detailed discussion of scaling, compute, economics, regulation and U.S.-China competition as the podcast continued functioning as an industry record.
RECEIPTS: Dwarkesh Patelfirst-party
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