The Ezra Klein Show
Podcast by New York Times Opinion
The Ezra Klein Show is a podcast by New York Times Opinion, hosted by Ezra Klein. TMT covers 2 of its episodes, most often discussing Artificial intelligence arms race between the United States and China, The Sabbath (Heschel book), The Challenger Launch Decision.
Hosts
- Ezra KleinNew York Times Opinion columnist and host of The Ezra Klein Show (diarization also merged one PopCast promo line into this label)
Frequent guests
- David Robinson · 1 episodeFormer OpenAI safety-team writer who led system card documentation; Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate and founder of the civil rights nonprofit Upturn
- Abdul El-Sayed · 1 episodeDemocratic Senate nominee in Michigan
Topics
- Artificial intelligence arms race between the United States and China
- The Sabbath (Heschel book)
- The Challenger Launch Decision
- Codex (OpenAI)
- Nuclear power regulation
- Superintelligence
- Hugging Face AI agent incident
- AI system cards
- Anthropic
- Organizational culture
- Recursive self-improvement
- AI existential risk
- AI alignment
- OpenAI
- The Best and the Brightest
Recently covered
‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
Ezra Klein interviews former OpenAI safety writer David Robinson about why he quit, arguing the AI industry lacks the safety culture its increasingly dangerous models demand.
- What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 h 34 min
Ezra Klein interviews Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed about his immigrant upbringing, Medicare for All, Islamophobic attacks, and U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestinians.
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