Lex Fridman Podcast
Long conversations about consciousness, code, and love
157 episodes from 11 Jan 2023 – 26 Aug 2026 · 468 hours.
What it is
Lex Fridman sits down with researchers, engineers, historians and occasionally heads of state, and lets it run — some episodes pass ten hours. The register is earnest and the questions are broad: consciousness, war, love, what a life is for, alongside the technical detail of whatever the guest actually builds.
Who's on it
Hosted by Lex Fridman. Guests skew toward AI and the sciences, with a strong recent run of long-form history.
What it's good for asking
- What have guests said about AGI timelines?
- How do guests describe the risk of AI?
- What was said about the Roman Empire?
Questions are answered only from these episodes' transcripts, and every answer cites the episodes and timestamps it used — so you can go and check it. Things a search box can't do: "what did they say they were worried about?", "has their position changed?", "which episode was that mentioned in?"
Episodes indexed (157)
Newest first. Showing 101–150 of 157.
- Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #404
- Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403
- Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #402
- John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401
- Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400
- Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #399
- Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
- Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #397
- James Sexton: Divorce Lawyer on Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Lies & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #396
- Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin | Lex Fridman Podcast #395
- Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394
- Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #393
- Georges St-Pierre vs Lex Fridman in Jiu Jitsu and MMA
- Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392
- Lex Fridman speaks to Palestinians in the West Bank
- Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine | Lex Fridman Podcast #391
- Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies | Lex Fridman Podcast #390
- Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace | Lex Fridman Podcast #389
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #388
- George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387
- Mark Zuckerberg vs Lex Fridman in Jiu Jitsu
- Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #386
- Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia | Lex Fridman Podcast #385
- Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #384
- Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp | Lex Fridman Podcast #383
- Bert Kreischer: Comedy, Drinking, Rogan, Segura, Churchill & Kim Jong Un | Lex Fridman Podcast #382
- Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381
- Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication | Lex Fridman Podcast #380
- Randall Kennedy: The N-Word - History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #379
- Anna Frebel: Origin and Evolution of the Universe, Galaxies, and Stars | Lex Fridman Podcast #378
- Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #377
- Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation | Lex Fridman Podcast #376
- David Pakman: Politics of Trump, Biden, Bernie, AOC, Socialism & Wokeism | Lex Fridman Podcast #375
- Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #374
- Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #373
- Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design | Lex Fridman Podcast #372
- Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371
- Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #370
- Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca | Lex Fridman Podcast #369
- Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368
- Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
- Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #366
- Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs | Lex Fridman Podcast #365
- Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator | Lex Fridman Podcast #364
- B-Team Jiu Jitsu: Craig Jones, Nicky Rod, and Nicky Ryan | Lex Fridman Podcast #363
- Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity | Lex Fridman Podcast #362
- Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology | Lex Fridman Podcast #361
- Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #360
- Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #359
- Aella: Sex Work, OnlyFans, Porn, Escorting, Dating, and Human Sexuality | Lex Fridman Podcast #358