Dwarkesh Patel is an American writer, researcher, and podcaster best known as the host of the long-form interview show Dwarkesh Podcast, which focuses on artificial intelligence, science, and history. While studying computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, he began interviewing writers and technologists in 2020 for an early version of the show, initially called The Lunar Society, and has since hosted high-profile guests including Andrej Karpathy, Ilya Sutskever, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Tony Blair, and Dominic Cummings. In 2024 Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in AI, and in 2025 he co-authored The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025, a book largely composed of excerpts from his podcast interviews with leading AI researchers and company founders.