The 4 Best Azeem Azhar's Exponential View Podcast Episodes
1) Big Tech and a Decade of Antitrust with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation across...Show More
2) China’s Technology Transformation with Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee, AI pioneer and investor, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the evolution of China’s vibrant tech sector, the rise of consumer-facing robots, the consequences for labor, and the future of educat...Show More
3) Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and Technology
Michael Liebreich, a leading global expert on clean energy and transportation, discusses the significance of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and IPCC's report, the importance of staying below two...Show More
4) Lessons for an Aging World
For the first time in history, there are more people on the planet over 65 years old, than under five. How do we adapt to this demographic transformation? Camilla Cavendish, award-winning journalist a...Show More
5) Mustafa Suleyman — AI is hacking our empathy circuits
A week before OpenClaw was released, I recorded a prescient conversation with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind. We talked about what happens when AI starts to seem cons...Show More
6) Davos 2026 and the end of the rules-based order
At Davos 2026, the mood was unlike any previous World Economic Forum gathering. With Donald Trump arriving amid escalating geopolitical tensions and European leaders sounding alarms about sovereignty,...Show More
7) Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts
In this episode, Peter McCrory, Head of Economics at Anthropic, unpacks the company's new Economic Index report. His team analyzed millions of real Claude conversations to map exactly where AI is augm...Show More
8) My outlook for 2026: orchestration, the human edge and the AI bubble
In this episode, I share my outlook for 2026 and explain why AI tools now feel genuinely different. I explore how the act of making has been transformed, why authenticity and meaning will become the n...Show More
9) AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)
In this episode, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and I discuss how a strong US economy, high asset valuations, and rapid AI adoption are sitting in uneasy tension. We explore what past tech...Show More
10) Reflecting on 2025 (the K-shaped economy, AI's impact on work and human judgement, energy bottlenecks)
What made 2025 special? In this episode, I reflect on the past year and what it revealed: a K-shaped divide. On one track, AI models are now doing hours of high quality work, improving at exponentia...Show More