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Lennart Heim

Director of AI Resources at OpenAI Foundation

Every podcast episode featuring Lennart Heim that Attunex has found: 21 interviews and appearances across 15 shows between 2023 and 2026. Most often on ChinaTalk (4), TBPN (2) and The AI Policy Podcast (2). Often in conversation with Jordan Schneider. Follow Lennart in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Synthetic Biology, Drones, and AI: The Risks of Dual-Use Technologies
    Cogs of War

    Is it too late to stop criminals and American adversaries from exploiting AI to conduct cyberattacks or design novel pathogens? Has regulation kept pace with the threat civilian drones pose to…

    2026-05-27
  2. Mythos and China (Robert Wright & Lennart Heim)
    BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

    How powerful is Anthropic’s Mythos? ... How Mythos looks to China ... Does Mythos mark a new phase in the US-China arms race? ... Can Anthropic contain Mythos? ... Could superhacker AIs bring…

    2026-05-01
  3. Mythos and China (Robert Wright & Lennart Heim)
    Robert Wright's Nonzero

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nonzero.org 0:28 How powerful is Anthropic’s Mythos? 7:16 How Mythos looks to China 9:40 Does Mythos mark a new phase in the US-China…

    2026-05-01
  4. Slop vs. Steel Showdown w/ Delian & Everett, GPT-5 Backlash, Trump Eyes Intel Stake | Bill Bishop, Jimmy Goodrich, Lennart Heim, David Stout, Cameron Schiller, Cyriac Roeding, NFM Live
    TBPN

    (00:54) - LIVE Slop vs. Steel Debate w/ Delian & Everett. Delian Asparouhov, a Bulgarian-born entrepreneur and venture capitalist, is a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder of Varda Space…

    2025-08-15
  5. H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart Heim
    The a16z Show

    We’re sharing an episode from ChinaTalk that dives into one of the biggest recent reversals in U.S. tech policy. The U.S. banned Nvidia’s H20 AI chips to China in April. Now, just months later,…

    2025-08-14
  6. EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart
    ChinaTalk

    So we're selling AI chips to China now. Chris Miller, author of Chip Wars, and Lennart Heim at RAND join to discuss: What are the tradeoffs involved in selling Why China is talking like they don't…

    2025-08-13
  7. Chime Climbs, Tech Titans Join Army Reserve, Meta Buys 49% of Scale AI | Joshua Steinman, Bernt Børnich, John Doyle, Emily Sundberg, Lennart Heim
    TBPN

    (02:47) - Joshua Steinman, founder of Galvanick, discusses the recent Israeli airstrikes on Iran's nuclear and military facilities, highlighting the precision of modern targeting technologies and the…

    2025-06-13
  8. China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter
    Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

    Lennart Heim, a researcher and information scientist at RAND Corporation, joins Azeem Azhar to unpack a provocative claim: China is catching up with US AI capabilities, but it doesn't matter.…

    2025-05-14
  9. The UAE's AI Ambitions
    The AI Policy Podcast

    In this special episode, we are joined by Georgia Adamson, Research Associate at the CSIS Wadhwani AI Center, Lennart Heim, Associate Information Scientist at RAND, and Sam Winter-Levy, Fellow for…

    2025-03-04
  10. Diving Deeper into DeepSeek
    The Just Security Podcast

    The tech industry is calling this AI’s “Sputnik Moment” – and President Donald Trump has said it’s a “wake-up call” for U.S. companies. We’re talking about DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that has…

    2025-02-04
  11. Week 1 of the Trump administration, AGI timelines, and DeepSeek
    The AI Policy Podcast

    In this episode, we break down President Trump's repeal of the the Biden administration's Executive Order (EO) on AI (1:00), the release of the America First Trade Policy memorandum (9:52), and the…

    2025-01-27
  12. Lennart Heim on the AI diffusion rule
    AI Summer

    Lennart Heim is an information scientist and researcher in AI governance at the RAND Corporation and a leading scholar on AI export controls. We asked him about the Biden administration’s “diffusion…

    2025-01-23
  13. Lawfare Daily: Janet Egan and Lennart Heim on the AI Diffusion Rule
    The Lawfare Podcast

    Janet Egan, Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and Lennart Heim, an AI researcher at RAND, join Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to analyze the interim final…

    2025-01-17
  14. EMERGENCY POD: AI Diffusion Export Controls
    ChinaTalk

    Biden last export control, for real this time! Who does and doesn't get to build datacenters under this new regulation? To discuss, we brought on RAND's Lennart Heim, Jimmy Goodrich, Chris Miller,…

    2025-01-15
  15. AI Geopolitics in o3's Age with Chris Miller + Lennart Heim
    ChinaTalk

    Chris Miller of Chip War and Lennart Heim of RAND check in on the geopolitics of AI. We explore: Chinese labs' algorithmic progress (surprising to everyone but regular ChinaTalk listeners!) The…

    2024-12-23
  16. Navigating the Complex Landscape of AI Compute Governance with Lennart Heim of Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
    AI, Government, and the Future

    In this episode of AI, Government, and the Future, we are joined by Lennart Heim, Research Fellow at Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), to discuss the complex landscape of AI compute…

    2024-05-02
  17. Highlights: #155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
    80k After Hours

    This is a selection of highlights from episode #155 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this,…

    2023-09-15
  18. #155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
    80,000 Hours Podcast

    As AI advances ever more quickly, concerns about potential misuse of highly capable models are growing. From hostile foreign governments and terrorists to reckless entrepreneurs, the threat of AI…

    2023-06-22
  19. Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
    Future of Life Institute Podcast

    Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss options for governing the compute used by AI labs and potential problems with this approach to AI safety. You can read more about Lennart's work here:…

    2023-04-06
  20. Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms
    Future of Life Institute Podcast

    Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss how we can forecast AI progress by researching AI hardware. You can read more about Lennart's work here: https://heim.xyz/about/ Timestamps: 00:00…

    2023-03-30
  21. AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of Giant Models
    ChinaTalk

    Love it or hate it, AI capabilities continue to advance. As futurists imagine how this technology may one day be used, how it develops and who will be able to access AI tools will also depend on who…

    2023-02-03