Strange Loop Podcast

About Strange Loop Podcast

Conversations at the edge of artificial intelligence and human knowledge. Hosted by Joel Hellermark.

Publisher

Sana

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jun 2025

Latest episode

12 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 13 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tyler Cowen | AI will change everything, just not all at once

   Joel Hellermark interviews economist Tyler Cowen about AI's slow, messy economic transformation and the human factors influencing its adoption.

2. 

   9 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ethan Mollick | The long way is the shortcut: experiments over AI playbooks

   Ethan Mollick and Lauren Crichton explore AI's "jagged frontier," discussing agents, job shifts, and embracing AI's quirks for genuine transformation.

3. 

   17 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Anton Osika | On building Lovable: AI for the 99%

   Lovable founder Anton Osika and host Joel Hellermark discuss how AI empowers non-developers to build products, revealing the future of software creation.

4. 

   3 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT

   David Deutsch | AGI, the origins of quantum computing, and the future of humanity

   Quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch discusses AGI, knowledge creation, and humanity's cosmic significance with hosts Joel Hellermark and Gustav Söderström in this insightful interview.

5. 

   2 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Episode Preview | David Deutsch

   Quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch discusses knowledge, creativity, and human uniqueness with Spotify's Gustav Söderström and Sana's Joel Hellermark in this interview.

6. 

   9 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Lessons from chess in an AI world | Garry Kasparov

   Chess champion Garry Kasparov discusses with Sana CEO Joel Hellermark how AI reshapes knowledge, work, and human agency, exploring chess as AI's proving ground and the importance of human intuition in this interview.

7. 

   1 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Why AI coding is the new literacy | Andrew Ng

   AI pioneer Andrew Ng discusses with Sana CEO Joel Hellermark democratizing AI creation, emphasizing AI coding as the new literacy and unlocking untapped creative potential in AI's application layer in this interview.

8. 

   26 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Building the teams behind the world’s fastest AI | Jensen Huang

   NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shares his leadership philosophies with host Joel Hellermark and management practices for building high-performing AI teams, emphasizing first-principles thinking and empowered, flat organizations in this interview.

9. 

   26 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   What we can’t ignore in the AI revolution | Max Tegmark

   MIT Physicist Max Tegmark explores the promises and risks of the AI revolution, discussing AI development speed and humanity's crucial response in an interview with Joel Hellermark.

10. 

    26 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

    How machine learning could save millions of lives | Daphne Koller

    AI pioneer Daphne Koller discusses with Joel Hellermark how machine learning and massive datasets revolutionize drug discovery and biology, offering insights into personalized medicine and healthier lives in this interview.

11. 

    26 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

    Rethinking AI’s power and limits | Geoffrey Hinton

    Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton reflects on the evolution of neural networks and artificial intelligence, discussing AI model scaling, learning processes, and comparisons to the human brain in an interview with Joel Hellermark.

12. 

    6 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

    How to build an AI-first organization | Ethan Mollick

    Wharton professor Ethan Mollick discusses with Sana CEO Joel Hellermark how companies underestimate AI's potential, advocating for transformational scale over mere efficiency in building AI-first organizations in this interview.

13. 

    2 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

    Episode 1 Preview: Ethan Mollick

    Ethan Mollick discusses how businesses face a strategic decision with AI, choosing between cost reduction and scaling ambition, in this interview with Joel Hellermark.

Inside a recent episode

Tyler Cowen | AI will change everything, just not all at once

Published 12 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I think Infrasys and related Indian firms will be masters of applying AI. Indian economy for a long time has been very good at applying ideas in a way that is cheaper and quicker and more to the point. Things like heart surgery, which they do better than America does for most cases. […]

Who has been a guest on Strange Loop Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tyler Cowen
• Ethan Mollick
• Anton Osika
• Garry Kasparov
• Andrew Ng

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

36 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

55

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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