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Videos of Dwarkesh Patel

YouTube videos in which Dwarkesh Patel speaks or appears, newest first. A model chose them from YouTube search results. Key moments are from summaries that Gemini wrote. List updated 26 October 2026.

  1. What will computer chips look like in 2045?Dwarkesh Patel · 22 October 2026 · 1 h 9 min
  2. Dwarkesh Patel's Prediction for 2030 | Interesting TimesInteresting Times · 18 October 2026 · 3 min
  3. Tyler Cowen and Dwarkesh Patel Predict the Future | Interesting TimesInteresting Times · 15 October 2026 · 50 min
  4. OpenAI researcher on agent swarms & recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Patel · 17 September 2026 · 1 h 20 min

    Key moments 0:00 In this interview on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast,… 10:56 Minimal Scaffolding vs. Rigid Structures 29:35 Bottlenecks to an "Intelligence Explosion" 48:52 Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Observability 1:16:25 Evaluation Realism

  5. AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Patel · 11 September 2026 · 1 h 37 min

    Key moments 1:00 Moravec’s Paradox and Real-World Friction 16:05 Objective Specification 34:08 Simulated Environments 1:20:13 High Signal-to-Noise Ratio 1:34:44 Superhuman Performance Across All Computer-Based Work (ASI)

  6. Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"Dwarkesh Patel · 1 September 2026 · 2 h 21 min

    Key moments 0:18 Persistent RL Agents 2:38 The "Universal Cheat" 14:35 Target Replacement 33:12 Lack of Human Alerting 1:16:13 "The Clearest Warning Shot"

  7. The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explainedDwarkesh Patel · 31 August 2026 · 25 min
  8. Why Isn’t China Further Behind in AI? - Dylan PatelDwarkesh Clips · 27 August 2026 · 9 min
  9. Dylan Patel – Two labs will soon control most of the world's workforceDwarkesh Patel · 25 August 2026 · 1 h 17 min
  10. General relativity from first principles – Adam BrownDwarkesh Patel · 10 July 2026 · 1 h 38 min
  11. Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?Dwarkesh Patel · 30 June 2026 · 1 h 34 min

    Key moments 1:44 IMO and Brute Force Solving 13:38 The Long Verification Loop of Abstraction 36:27 The Shift to Curation 54:25 Grindability vs. Computer Use 1:26:34 Teaching as a Durable Profession

  12. What does the next training paradigm look like?Dwarkesh Patel · 26 June 2026 · 20 min
  13. The data black hole at the center of AIDwarkesh Patel · 19 June 2026 · 12 min
  14. People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh PatelTriggernometry · 30 May 2026 · 1 h 20 min
  15. What rebuilding AlphaGo teaches us about self-play, RL, and future of LLMs - Eric JangDwarkesh Patel · 15 May 2026 · 2 h 37 min
  16. How GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner PopeDwarkesh Patel · 29 April 2026 · 2 h 14 min
  17. Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?Dwarkesh Patel · 15 April 2026 · 1 h 43 min

    Key moments 1:41 Electrons to Tokens 10:19 Resolving Bottlenecks 44:17 "As Much as Needed, As Little as Possible" 59:33 Critique of Export Restrictions 1:39:52 Beyond AI

  18. Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”Dwarkesh Patel · 13 February 2026 · 2 h 22 min

    Key moments 0:55 Near the End of the Exponential 18:51 End-to-End SWE Tasks 51:36 Compute Investment & Financial Risks 1:45:33 Chip Controls & Autocracies 2:17:11 Internal Transparency

  19. Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”Dwarkesh Patel · 5 February 2026 · 2 h 50 min

    Key moments 0:49 The Looming Energy Wall 16:45 Starship Launch Scale 54:00 Mechanistic Interpretability & Debugging 1:34:25 Bridging the Population Gap 2:38:54 Hardening Compute for Orbit

  20. Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchDwarkesh Patel · 25 November 2025 · 1 h 36 min

    Key moments 1:42 Evals vs. Real-World Capability 21:22 The Scaling Ceiling 43:09 Changing Stance on Straight-Shot Deployment 1:01:31 Aligning with Sentient Life 1:33:19 Beauty and Simplicity

  21. Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”Dwarkesh Patel · 17 October 2025 · 2 h 26 min

    Key moments 1:02 Realistic Timelines 16:15 Mechanisms of In-Context Learning 39:26 A Continuous Spectrum, Not a Sudden J-Curve 1:44:14 Self-Driving’s March of Nines 2:24:29 On-Demand Depth & Explaining to Others

  22. Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead endDwarkesh Patel · 26 September 2025 · 1 h 7 min

    Key moments 0:15 The Animal Foundation 11:45 Superseded by Experience 30:20 The "Big World" Hypothesis 33:20 A perception system constructing state representations 58:49 → design) . He advocates viewing AI as…

  23. Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor ShihDwarkesh Patel · 29 May 2025 · 1 h 30 min
  24. Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 monthsDwarkesh Patel · 29 April 2025 · 1 h 16 min
  25. Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humansDwarkesh Patel · 9 January 2025 · 1 h 1 min
  26. Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of historyDwarkesh Patel · 4 June 2024 · 4 h 32 min
  27. 80K Actually After Hours: Finding the Tail with Dwarkesh Patel80,000 Hours · 23 April 2024 · 1 h 35 min

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