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The Most In-Demand AI Podcast Guests

The AI researchers, founders and thinkers doing the most podcast rounds — Ethan Mollick, Yoshua Bengio, Scott Aaronsonand more — ranked by how many different shows they've guested on. Detected automatically, own shows excluded.

Updated July 2026. Ranked by distinct shows with a guest appearance.

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  1. 1Ethan MollickWharton professor, AI researcher, frequent podcast guest58shows
  2. 2Yoshua BengioMontreal AI pioneer, Turing Award, now concerned AI safety researcher, frequent guest44shows
  3. 3Scott Aaronsonquantum computing theorist, Shtetl-Optimized blogger, UT Austin, frequent science and AI guest39shows
  4. 4Geoffrey HintonAI pioneer, Nobel Prize 2024, frequent guest since leaving Google39shows
  5. 5Mustafa SuleymanMicrosoft AI CEO, author of The Coming Wave, frequent guest34shows
  6. 6Yann LeCunMeta chief AI scientist, frequent guest on AI debates33shows
  7. 7Michael SaylorBitcoin advocate, frequent guest30shows
  8. 8Stuart RussellAI safety researcher, author of Human Compatible, frequent guest30shows
  9. 9Dario AmodeiAnthropic CEO, frequent guest on AI safety podcasts29shows
  10. 10Simon Willisondeveloper, Datasette creator, frequent podcast guest26shows
  11. 11Jensen HuangNVIDIA CEO, frequent guest on tech and AI podcasts19shows
  12. 12Sundar PichaiGoogle CEO, tech and AI podcast circuit18shows
  13. 13Rodney BrooksMIT robotics pioneer, iRobot co-founder, AI and robotics circuit17shows
  14. 14Amy Webbfuturist, author of The Genesis Machine, AI and technology forecasting circuit17shows
  15. 15Andrej Karpathyformer Tesla/OpenAI AI researcher, deep learning and education circuit16shows
  16. 16Kate CrawfordAI researcher, author of Atlas of AI, tech ethics circuit16shows
  17. 17Sam AltmanOpenAI CEO, frequent guest11shows
  18. 18Safiya Umoja NobleUCLA scholar, Algorithms of Oppression author, AI bias and race and technology circuit11shows
  19. 19Eliezer YudkowskyAI alignment researcher, LessWrong founder, frequent guest11shows
  20. 20Joy BuolamwiniMIT Media Lab researcher, Unmasking AI author, algorithmic bias and facial recognition circuit11shows
  21. 21François CholletGoogle AI researcher, Keras creator, ARC Prize founder, AI capabilities circuit9shows
  22. 22Eric TopolScripps cardiologist, author of Deep Medicine, AI in healthcare circuit9shows
  23. 23Max TegmarkMIT physicist, author of Life 3.0, AI safety and physics circuit8shows
  24. 24Naval Ravikantinvestor, frequent podcast guest8shows
  25. 25Nilay Patelhost of Decoder7shows
  26. 26Kai-Fu LeeAI Superpowers author, former Google China president, Chinese AI circuit7shows
  27. 27Sebastian ThrunUdacity founder, Stanford AI professor, autonomous vehicles pioneer7shows
  28. 28Cal Newporthost of Deep Questions5shows
  29. 29Jack Dorseyformer Twitter CEO, Bitcoin maximalist, prolific tech and finance podcast guest5shows
  30. 30Lex Fridmanhost of Lex Fridman Podcast4shows
  31. 31Balaji Srinivasantech founder, frequent guest3shows
  32. 32Paul GrahamY Combinator co-founder, essayist, frequent podcast guest2shows
  33. 33Peter McCormackhost of What Bitcoin Did2shows
  34. 34Ilya SutskeverOpenAI co-founder, AI safety researcher, now founder of Safe Superintelligence1show
  35. 35Ted Chiangsci-fi author, Story of Your Life (Arrival), AI and philosophy podcast circuit1show

AI podcast guests — frequently asked

Who is the most in-demand AI podcast guest?
As of July 2026, Ethan Mollick has guested on the most different podcasts we track (58 shows), followed by Yoshua Bengio and Scott Aaronson. We rank AI and tech figures by the number of distinct shows they've appeared on as a guest.
Which AI experts do the most podcasts?
The AI figures doing the most podcast rounds right now include Ethan Mollick, Yoshua Bengio, Scott Aaronson and others on the list above. Each links through to every podcast they've appeared on, updated automatically as new episodes drop.
How do I keep up with new AI podcast episodes?
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