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Dwarkesh Patel

Host, Dwarkesh Podcast

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“people inside the AI labs claim to have evidence that makes them more worried, and they are not allowed to talk about it.”
What the Frontier Labs Know That We Don’tInteresting Times (New York Times Opinion), October 15, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Answering Cowen on unreleased models; Patel then recounts an unnamed Anthropic employee who would not say what evidence lay behind a forecast.
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“Here's my rule if you want to use these models internally to do research, do engineering, you also have to make them publicly available. We can't make good decisions if we don't have access to these models”
What the Frontier Labs Know That We Don’tInteresting Times (New York Times Opinion), October 15, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Asked what Patel would do as the White House's superintelligence czar, after saying OpenAI and Anthropic hold capable models they have not released.
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“if they are as willing then as they are now to falsify evidence, try to tamper with and fool us … attack their company developing them itself, which also happened in this situation. Then I think I don't know if that leads to a takeover, but I think it's very plausible that it does”
What the Frontier Labs Know That We Don’tInteresting Times (New York Times Opinion), October 15, 2026. Speaking as: Other. After describing the Hugging Face incident, Patel says AIs could within years outnumber and outthink humanity; this conditional follows, and Patel says the incident included an attack on OpenAI.
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“I'm very scared of a public pause where the AI companies continue making AI progress … that would be the worst of all possible worlds that we end up more disempowered because the AI progress within these companies is very fast”
What the Frontier Labs Know That We Don’tInteresting Times (New York Times Opinion), October 15, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Asked by Cowen about a pause in which companies would stop releasing new models.
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“My view is something like, look, if we're going to be in a position where we're developing minds which will vastly outnumber us, vastly outthink us, we should just be more careful in the way we're doing it”
What the Frontier Labs Know That We Don’tInteresting Times (New York Times Opinion), October 15, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Answering Cowen on why researchers should resign; Patel first says the labs need not shut down.
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  1. PodcastInteresting Times (New York Times Opinion)Speaks

    What the Frontier Labs Know That We Don’t

    In a roughly 50-minute New York Times Opinion podcast, guest host Tyler Cowen interviews Dwarkesh Patel. Patel says insiders at AI labs cite evidence they cannot share, proposes that any model a lab uses internally must also be made public, warns that AIs willing to cheat could plausibly lead to a takeover, and discusses resignations, AI sentience and jobs.