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Lex Fridman — podcast host and AI researcher

Lex Fridman hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, which has 5.05 million YouTube subscribers, and is listed as a research scientist at MIT’s LIDS lab since 2015.

Lex Fridman is an AI researcher and podcaster. His site lists him as a research scientist at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems since 2015, working on human-AI interaction, robotics and machine learning. Since 2018 he has hosted the Lex Fridman Podcast — launched as The Artificial Intelligence Podcast, renamed in 2020 — holding multi-hour conversations with scientists, engineers and heads of state. The channel shows 5.05 million subscribers, 868 videos and about 926.6 million views. Born in the Soviet Union in 1983, he holds a black belt in jiu-jitsu.

Specialization

human-AI interaction, robotics, long-form interviews, machine learning

Country

United States