Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman is an American computer scientist and podcaster. He earned BS and MS degrees in computer science at Drexel University in 2010 and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering there in 2014, writing his dissertation on learning identity from behavioral biometrics for active authentication. After six months at Google he joined MIT's AgeLab in 2015 as a research scientist studying driver behavior, where he led a group of engineers developing learning algorithms for semi-autonomous vehicles in collaboration with Toyota; since 2022 he has been a research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and he also conducts research for the Center for Complex Engineering Systems, an MIT–KACST collaboration. He began his podcast in 2018 as The Artificial Intelligence Podcast, renamed it the Lex Fridman Podcast in 2020, and uses its long-form interview format to talk with figures from science, technology, sports, the arts and politics. He gives his own research interests as human-AI interaction, robotics and machine learning.