Podcast · 44 episodes
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
by Azeem Azhar · English
How will the future unfold? What is the impact of AI and other exponential technologies on business & society? Join Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, on his quest to demistify the era of exponential change.
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Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom lineWhy AI ROI is slow to show on company “bottom lines,” arguing AI is a general-purpose technology whose benefits require major business reconceptualization, not just more chatbot/copilot usage.4 Jun 2026 · 19 min
AI, writing and artisanal media – inside Exponential View with Greg and AzeemGreg Williams joins Exponential View to discuss why the publication is “read meaningfully” via themes, hypotheses, and models; how community and rigor support its subscription economics; and how AI…16 Apr 2026 · 28 min
Karpathy’s autoresearch could make scientists of us allAndrej Karpathy’s open-source AutoResearch is used to automate hypothesis-driven experimentation, reducing the cost of the scientific method.1 Apr 2026 · 21 min
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Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom lineWhy AI ROI is slow to show on company “bottom lines,” arguing AI is a general-purpose technology whose benefits require major business reconceptualization, not just more chatbot/copilot usage.4 Jun 2026 · 19 min · 9 chapters
AI, writing and artisanal media – inside Exponential View with Greg and AzeemGreg Williams joins Exponential View to discuss why the publication is “read meaningfully” via themes, hypotheses, and models; how community and rigor support its subscription economics; and how AI…16 Apr 2026 · 28 min · 9 chapters
Karpathy’s autoresearch could make scientists of us allAndrej Karpathy’s open-source AutoResearch is used to automate hypothesis-driven experimentation, reducing the cost of the scientific method.1 Apr 2026 · 21 min · 7 chapters
What NVIDIA’s bet on OpenClaw means for the future of AI and your token budgetJensen Huang’s GTC remarks on OpenClaw and why AI is shifting from training-heavy workloads to inference-heavy, agentic systems—driving massive token/compute demand and changing chip requirements…25 Mar 2026 · 37 min · 10 chapters
Why I changed my mind about Apple and AIThe host argues Apple is “losing” by AI benchmark metrics, but is positioned to win the practical, on-device AI race because its hardware and privacy stack make local AI agents fast and trustworthy.18 Mar 2026 · 21 min · 10 chapters
How to think well with AI: signals, quietness, and the argument engineHow ambient AI affects deep thinking and writing, distinguishing cognitive offloading (helpful delegation) from cognitive surrender (uncritical relinquishing of reasoning), and describing a…13 Mar 2026 · 33 min · 16 chapters
Showing you my AI chief of staff (OpenClaw practical guide)The episode argues that AI productivity stats may miss what’s happening for early “knowledge workers” who delegate to always-on AI agent teams.5 Mar 2026 · 42 min · 14 chapters
Are we in charge of our AI tools or are they in charge of us?Whether humans remain in charge of AI tools as AI becomes more agentic, and how to prevent “de-skilling” and hollow, synthetic information from eroding human competence and thinking.25 Feb 2026 · 52 min · 24 chapters
Entering the trillion-agent economy (ft. Rohit Krishnan)The “trillion-agent economy” and how AI agents (persistent LLMs with tool access and memory) will coordinate, exchange value, and act as an “analyst” layer for everyday work.19 Feb 2026 · 53 min · 20 chapters
Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)Whether frontier AI (specifically OpenAI) has sustainable economics given rapid model obsolescence, compute costs, and massive capex; includes discussion of gross margins vs R&D burden, Microsoft’s…13 Feb 2026 · 50 min · 21 chapters
Mustafa Suleyman — AI is hacking our empathy circuitsMustafa Suleyman argues that advanced AI is “hacking our empathy circuits” by producing outputs that mimic sadness, fear, and other feelings, creating “seemingly conscious AI” and an “AI psychosis”…5 Feb 2026 · 50 min · 23 chapters
Davos 2026 and the end of the rules-based orderLive Davos 2026 dispatches on (1) the “end” of the rules-based order and rising geopolitical fragmentation/sovereignty demands, and (2) the practical reality of AI adoption in enterprises and…29 Jan 2026 · 16 min · 7 chapters
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of expertsAnthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts21 Jan 2026 · 55 min · 25 chapters
My outlook for 2026: orchestration, the human edge and the AI bubbleIn this episode, Azeem Azhar shares his insights and predictions for the year 2026, emphasizing the transformative power of AI tools and the changes in societal and business dynamics that stem from…16 Jan 2026 · 33 min · 18 chapters
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)Azeem Azhar's Exponential View8 Jan 2026 · 47 min · 23 chapters
Reflecting on 2025 (the K-shaped economy, AI's impact on work and human judgement, energy bottlenecks)Azeem Azhar's Exponential View20 Dec 2025 · 25 min
What I learned from the world's leading minds in 2025Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, explores the impact of exponential technologies, such as AI, on business and society.19 Dec 2025 · 22 min
What it will take for AI to scale (energy, compute, talent)In this episode of *Exponential View*, Azeem Azhar discusses the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and the factors that may hinder its widespread adoption over the next two years.10 Dec 2025 · 24 min
The method of invention, AI's new clock speed and why capital markets are confusedThe Method of Invention, AI's New Clock Speed, and Why Capital Markets Are Confused5 Dec 2025 · 24 min
Why the AI productivity gains haven’t arrived - yetIn this episode, Azeem Azhar explores the dichotomy in productivity gains attributed to AI, highlighting a split reality where individual productivity seems to rise while overall economic benefits…21 Nov 2025 · 22 min
Where did all the entry-level jobs go? (With Revelio CEO Ben Zweig)In this episode, Azeem Azhar discusses the diminishing number of entry-level jobs in AI-exposed fields with Ben Zweig, CEO of Revelio Labs.14 Nov 2025 · 48 min
The demand for infinite computeIn this episode, Azeem Azhar delves deep into the burgeoning demand for computation in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and other exponential technologies.7 Nov 2025 · 17 min
Inside the US–China decoupling: What’s really at stake (AI, rare earths, Taiwan, trade)Jordan Schneider, creator of Chinatalk23 Oct 2025 · 45 min
Inside the collapse of the internet economy (and what comes next)Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, hosts discussions about the unfolding future and the impact of AI and exponential technologies on society and business.8 Oct 2025 · 47 min