| Latent Space (2023) | Shawn "swyx" Wang & Alessio Fanelli | Weekly interviews on model engineering, infra and open-source releases; show notes link directly to code and papers. | Substack subscription + listener Patreon, no outside sponsor slots noted.1 | Chris Lattner on Mojo and compiler-level AI |
| Last Week in AI (2020) | Andrey Kurenkov & Jeremie Harris | 90-min round-ups of research, industry and policy news with citations in the show notes. | Volunteer collective under the Skynet Today banner; no ads, optional donations.23 | Episode #209 on OpenAI governance (May 2025)4 |
| Data Skeptic (2014) | Kyle Polich | Short solo explainers plus deep-dive interviews; strong emphasis on statistical rigour and replication. | Creative Commons licence; funding via listener club and a small Patreon.5 | Graphs for Causal AI (May 2025) |
| Eye on AI (2018) | Craig S. Smith (ex-NY Times) | Fortnightly, long-form conversations that situate new results in social, economic and geopolitical context. | Sole proprietor; occasional book plug by the host, no corporate underwriting.6 | #262 Digital Dharma on consciousness and LLMs |
| AI Alignment Podcast (2017) | Lucas Perry & FLI colleagues | Two-hour seminars on safety research, interpretability and governance. | Produced by the non-profit Future of Life Institute; grant-funded, ad-free.7 | Overview of Technical Alignment with Buck Shlegeris & Rohin Shah |
| Dwarkesh Podcast (2021) | Dwarkesh Patel | Dense, unscripted interrogations with frontier-model researchers, often 2–3 hours; full transcripts online. | Independent creator; revenue from Patreon and YouTube, no sponsor reads.8 | Jeff Bezos & Mark Zuckerberg on AGI stakes |