Podcasts Appearances

• CSIS AI Policy Podcast, Week 1 of the Trump administration, AGI timelines, and DeepSeek, 2025-01

• AI Summer, Lennart Heim on the AI diffusion rule, 2025-01

• LawFare, Lawfare Daily: Janet Egan and Lennart Heim on the AI Diffusion Rule, 2025-01

• ChinaTalk, EMERGENCY POD: AI Diffusion Export Controls, 2025-01

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• ChinaTalk, AI Geopolitics in o3’s Age with Chris Miller + Lennart Heim, 2024-12

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• AI, Government, and the Future, Navigating the Complex Landscape of AI Compute Governance with Lennart Heim , 2024-05

• High Impact Engineers, AI compute governance with Lennart Heim, 2023-07

• 80,000 Hours, Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after, 2023-06

• Future of Life Institute Podcast, Lennart Heim on Compute Governance, 2023-04

• Future of Life Institute Podcast, Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms, 2023-03

• ChinaTalk, AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of Giant Models, 2023-02

  • AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of GPUs

  • Compute and the Future of US-China Relations

Articles Covering my Research And Interviews

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2024

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• Time, Exclusive: Experts Pen Support for California AI Safety Bill, interview, 2024-08

• Forbes, Sustaining The Future: Environmental Effects Of AI Scale-Up, features our data center work, 2024-08-02

• The Economist, AI firms will soon exhaust most of the internet’s data, features our work on running out of data, 2024-07-23

• Forbes, Unlocking The Future: Why Investing In Hardware Is Vital For Advancing Generative AI, mentions data center report and other work with Epoch, 2024-06-27

• Time, The Epoch AI Researcher Trying to Glimpse the Future of AI, interviewed about Epoch and colleague Jaime Sevilla, 2024-06

• The New York Times, How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I., covers our work on running out of data, 2024-04-06

• Fortune, The cost of training AI could soon become too much to bear, interview and covers blog post, 2024-04-04

• French Government, 25 recommandations pour l’IA en France, covers our work on compute governance, 2024-03

• The Wire China, How Google’s Alleged Thief Wooed Investors, interview, 2024-03-17

• China Talk, TikTok, Congress Takes a Massive L on S&T Funding, AI Hardware Controls, features blog post, 2024-03

2023

• Google Cloud Blog, The world’s largest distributed LLM training job on TPU v5e, uses our data on compute trends, 2023-11

• 2120 Insights, The 6 key AI variables to watch, covers some of the Epoch trends, 2023-10

• South China Morning Post, New US export limits on AI chips won’t affect PLA immediately, analysts say, interview and commentary, 2023-10-20

• Foreign Policy, Biden Turns a Few More Screws on China’s Chip Industry, interview and commentary, 2023-10-19

• Invest Like the Best, 455: Rolex Pricing, Jensen & Nvidia, China Chip Ban 1.5, Costco, Google Maps to Optimize Cities, Bicycle for the Mind, and Beckham, covers chart explaining export controls, 2023-10

• SemiAnalysis, Wafer Wars: Deciphering Latest Restrictions On AI And Semiconductor Manufacturing, covers chart explaining export controls, 2023-10

• Time, 4 Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down, features our work on AI trends, 2023-08-02

• The New York Times, Opinion | Alexander Karp of Palantir on A.I. Weapons Development, features our work on compute trends, 2023-07-25

• Time, What to Know About Claude 2, Anthropic’s Rival to ChatGPT, interview and commentary, 2023-07-18

• Cyberscoop, Does the world need an arms control treaty for AI?, interview and commentary, 2023-06-29

• Medium, Microsoft’s New AI Regulatory Framework & the Coming Battle over Computational Control, Introduction to Compute Governance, 2023-05-29

• The Economist, Large Creative AI Models Will Transform How We Live and Work, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2023-04-22

• The Economist, How Generative Models Could Go Wrong, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2023-04-19

• Financial Times, We must slow down the race to God-like AI, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2023-04-13

• The Wire China, The AI Lockout: Losing access to Nvidia chips isn’t just a hardware problem for China, interview and commentary, as well as Twitter post on US chip bans, 2023-03-12

• Nature, In AI, is bigger always better?, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2023-03-08

• Google, Bard: Google AI search updates, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2023-02-06

• AI Index Report, Stanford’s AI Index 2023, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2023

• The Economist, The race of the AI labs heats up, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2023-01-30

• The Atlantic, What happens when AI has read everything?, Will we run out of data? Evidence from projecting data size trends, 2023-01-18

• New Scientist, AI chatbots could hit a ceiling after 2026 as training data runs dry, Will we run out of data? Evidence from projecting data size trends, 2023-01-06

2022

• Our World in Data, The brief history of artificial intelligence, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2022-12-06

• MIT Technology Review, We could run out of data to train AI language programs, Will we run out of data? Evidence from projecting data size trends, 2022-11-24

• The Economist, Huge “foundation models” are turbo-charging AI progress, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2022-06-11

• Analytics India Magazine, The Bigger The Better: Google AI’s New 540 Billion Parameter Model, PaLM, PaLM Estimate, 2022-04-07

• Marktechpost, This Research Paper Explains The Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2022-03-18

• Analytics India Magazine, Why Changing Computing Trends Across Different ML Eras Matter, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2022-03-17

• InfoQ, ML Compute Trends Across Three Eras, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2022-03-08

• Discover Magazine, AI Machines Have Beaten Moore’s Law Over The Last Decade, Say Computer Scientists, Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, 2022-01-21