Tim Lee and Dean Ball interview leading experts about the future of AI technology and policy. www.aisummer.org
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "Dean Ball is leaving the podcast" (16 April 2025, 58 minutes), "Charles Yang on AI and Science" (7 April 2025, 62 minutes), and "James Grimmelmann on the copyright threat to AI companies" (19 March 2025, 53 minutes).
AI Summer publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 14 episodes.
Booking probability for AI Summer is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. AI Summer requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. AI Summer's contact route on record: verified email.
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AI Summer is a technology podcast with 14 episodes published.
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<p>This week Dean began a new job: senior policy advisor for AI in the Trump White House. I will miss having him as a co-host and wish him the best in his new role.</p><p>In this episode, recorded last Friday, we...
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<p>This week, Dean and Tim talk to Charles Yang, a former staffer at the Department of Energy who now writes the Rough Drafts newsletter. Tim has written extensively about AI in science, concentrating especially on the...
<p>James Grimmelmann is a professor of law at Cornell University and a leading expert on copyright law. Grimmelmann walks through the complex process courts use to determine whether training AI models on copyrighted...
<p>Andrew Lee is the co-founder of Shortwave, an AI-powered email app. He’s also Tim’s brother.</p><p>Andrew shares how Shortwave evolved from a conventional email app into a multi-LLM system that automates inbox...
<p>In this episode, Dean and Tim discuss Dean’s trip to Paris for the AI Action Summit, including Vice President Vance’s speech on AI. They talk through the European outlook on AI regulation, European resentment toward...
<p>Kashmir Hill is a reporter at the New York Times who focuses on the social impacts of new technology. In this episode, she describes how users are customizing chatbots like ChatGPT to fulfill emotional and even...
<p>Tim and Dean chat with Sophia Tung, an entrepreneur, engineer, and now YouTuber, about her recent experience in a Chinese self-driving taxi from Apollo Go, a subsidiary of Baidu. Apollo Go is a bit like China’s...
<p>Dean and Tim discuss DeepSeek’s r1 release and what it means. We talk export controls, whether the model is a true technical breakthrough, and what “reasoning” models like r1 and o1 mean for the pace of AI progress...
<p>Nathan Labenz is the host of our favorite AI podcast, the Cognitive Revolution. A self-described “AI scout,” Nathan uses his podcast to explore a wide range of AI advancements, from the latest language models to...
<p>Lennart Heim is an information scientist and researcher in AI governance at the RAND Corporation and a leading scholar on AI export controls. We asked him about the Biden administration’s “diffusion framework,” which...
<p>Sam Hammond is senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, a right-leaning tech policy think tank based in Washington DC. Hammond is a Trump supporter who expects AI to improve rapidly in the next few...
<p>Ajeya Cotra works at Open Philanthropy, a leading funder of efforts to combat existential risks from AI. She has led the foundation’s grantmaking on technical research to understand and reduce catastrophic risks from...
<p>Nathan Lambert is the author of the popular AI newsletter Interconnects. He is also a research scientist who leads post-training at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a research organization funded by...
<p>Jon Askonas, an Assistant Professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, is well connected to conservatives and Republicans in Washington DC. In this December 16 conversation, he talked to Tim and Dean...
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Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law, University of Maryland School of Law
Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Zindrew Chili and Zindrew Wonton Shop
journalist and author of "Your Face Belongs to Us", The New York Times
information scientist and researcher in AI governance, RAND Corporation
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