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Jeff Clune

AI researcher; UBC professor, CIFAR AI Chair and Google DeepMind researcher

Every podcast episode featuring Jeff Clune that Attunex has found: 11 interviews and appearances across 10 shows between 2010 and 2026. Most often on BBC Inside Science (2). Follow Jeff in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Darwin Gödel Machine: Self-Improving Coding Agents Through Open-Ended Evolution
    AI Post TransformersAI

    This episode explores the Darwin Gödel Machine, a self-improving coding agent from researchers at UBC, the Vector Institute, Sakana AI, and Jeff Clune's lab, published on arXiv in May 2025 and…

    2026-07-17
  2. Will AI replace scientists?
    Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

    Guests: Jeff Clune, CIFAR AI chair at the Victor Institute and Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway Matthew…

    2026-04-19
  3. 🎧 AI That Rewrites Its Own Brain: Meet the HyperAgent
    AI OdysseyAI

    What happens when you give an AI system the ability to modify not just its answers, but the very process it uses to improve itself? In this episode, we explore HyperAgents, a new framework from Meta…

    2026-03-29
  4. HyperAgents and Metacognitive Self-Improvement
    AI Post TransformersAI

    This episode explores the HyperAgents paper and its central claim that an AI system can improve not only its task behavior but also the procedure it uses to generate future improvements. It explains…

    2026-03-27
  5. Hyperagents
    Daily Paper CastAI

    🤗 Upvotes: 21 | cs.AI Authors: Jenny Zhang, Bingchen Zhao, Wannan Yang, Jakob Foerster, Jeff Clune, Minqi Jiang, Sam Devlin, Tatiana Shavrina Title: Hyperagents Arxiv:…

    2026-03-23
  6. EP42 程式碼進化論:達爾文哥德爾機器如何開創自我改寫AI新時代
    圖靈學院AI

    ● 還以為AI只是「被訓練」的工具?現在它學會「改寫自己」了! 在AI研究界,有一個長年未解的夢想:「能不能打造一個會自己學、自己改進,甚至自己重寫程式碼的AI?」 這不是科幻小說,而是 Sakana.ai 與 UBC(不列顛哥倫比亞大學)Jeff Clune 團隊攜手打造的突破性成果 :達爾文哥德爾機器(DGM),一個會「進化自己」的AI系統。 ● 為什麼這麼重要? -…

    2025-09-29
  7. EP40 程式碼進化論:達爾文哥德爾機器如何開創自我改寫AI新時代
    圖靈學院AI

    程式碼進化論:AI也能進化自己?達爾文哥德爾機器開啟「自我改寫」的新時代! ● 還以為AI只是「被訓練」的工具?現在它學會「改寫自己」了! 在AI研究界,有一個長年未解的夢想:「能不能打造一個會自己學、自己改進,甚至自己重寫程式碼的AI?」 這不是科幻小說,而是 Sakana.ai 與 UBC(不列顛哥倫比亞大學)Jeff Clune 團隊攜手打造的突破性成果…

    2025-09-22
  8. EP215 - ว้าว งานวิจัยพบว่า AI Coding Agent สามารถปรับปรุงตัวเองให้เก่งขึ้นเรื่อยๆ ได้!
    SE CORNERMentioned

    EP เอางานวิจัยเรื่อง Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents ของทีมนักวิจัย Jenny Zhang, Shengran Hu, Cong Lu, Robert Lange, และ Jeff Clune จาก University of British…

    2025-09-07
  9. Jeff Clune - Agent AI Needs Darwin
    Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

    AI professor Jeff Clune ruminates on open-ended evolutionary algorithms—systems designed to generate novel and interesting outcomes forever. Drawing inspiration from nature’s boundless creativity,…

    2025-01-04
  10. arxiv preprint - Automated Design of Agentic Systems
    AI BreakdownAI

    In this episode, we discuss Automated Design of Agentic Systems by Shengran Hu, Cong Lu, Jeff Clune. The paper introduces Automated Design of Agentic Systems (ADAS), which aims to replace…

    2024-08-31
  11. Danny Masterson & Scientology; Call to ban gambling ads, Mitigating the risk of AI, Concern over Bill C-18
    Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

    Today's guests: Tony Ortega, investigative journalist/author / Author - The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper Karl Subban, Father of 3 NHL…

    2023-06-02
  12. Jeff Clune
    TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

    AI Generating Algos, Learning to play Minecraft with Video PreTraining (VPT), Go-Explore for hard exploration, POET and Open Endedness, AI-GAs and ChatGPT, AGI predictions, and lots more! Professor…

    2023-03-27
  13. Beware of the Valentine’s chatbot
    Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

    How have dating apps changed the way people approach relationships and meeting one another? How does someone find success with dating apps? Guest: Shan Boodram, Bumble’s relationship expert What are…

    2023-02-15
  14. Accelerating Intelligence with AI-Generating Algorithms with Jeff Clune
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    Are AI-generating algorithms the path to artificial general intelligence(AGI)? Today we’re joined by Jeff Clune, an associate professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, and…

    2022-12-05
  15. The Paths to AGI
    The AutoML Podcast

    Today we’re speaking with Jeff Clune about a new path towards general artificial intelligence, that he calls AI Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs). Jeff is a Professor of Computer Science at the…

    2022-09-05
  16. Jeff Clune: Genetic Algorithms, Quality-Diversity, Curiosity
    The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

    In episode 41 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Professor Jeff Clune. Jeff is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and a Faculty Member of…

    2022-09-01
  17. Self-adapting robots, Artificial intelligence in medicine, Ageing healthily
    BBC Inside Science

    We're becoming more reliant on robots to assist in hostile zones from extinguishing forest fires to bomb disposal to decontaminating nuclear facilities. But whereas humans can quickly adapt to…

    2015-05-2827:51
  18. Legacy of Messenger, Computer Touch, AI and Traumatic Forgetting, Stained Glass Restoration
    BBC Inside Science

    This month sees the end of NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury. It's been the first mission to the sun's closest planet since Mariner 10 flew by in the mid-1970s. Lucie Green speaks to geologist…

    2015-04-0927:56
  19. Biota Live #69: Jeff Clune [June 11, 2010]
    Biota's Artificial Life Podcast

    Tom Barbalet and Jeff Clune discuss NEAT, Avida, altruism and MSU's Digital Evolution Laboratory. This is the live internet radio format for the podcast at 8pm Pacific on Friday every-other-week. For…

    2010-06-121:02:11