Get Dileep George on Dwarkesh Podcast

Dileep George, a DeepMind AGI researcher and cofounder of Vicarious and Numenta, sits at the center of today’s debate over how we actually get to general intelligence, as Google streamlines more AI teams into DeepMind and the lab lays out a high stakes AGI safety roadmap that entertains timelines as early as 2030. He is not just a commentator, he is shipping ideas and code that could shape those timelines.

In May 2025 he presented a detailed theory of thalamo cortical microcircuits for predictive vision and he recently coauthored a NeurIPS 2024 paper clarifying what “planning as inference” really means, a brain grounded agenda that cuts against the LLM only narrative. If you care about where the next breakthroughs come from, you want to hear his case now.

With DeepMind launching tools like AlphaGenome in June 2025 and tightening its research to developer pipeline, George can connect biologically inspired models to real world impact in biology, robotics, and agents today. I cannot find any record of him appearing on the Dwarkesh Podcast before, so let’s seize the moment and support this nomination now.