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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55:25

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

2

51:21

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

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

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57:53

Charles Yang on AI and Science

Will AI Revolutionize Science?

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

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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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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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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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1:03:16