Anish Tondwalkar - The Societal Implications of Reasoning Models

Update: 2025-08-14

Description

Anish Tondwalkar is a former employee of OpenAI and Google Brain, now the co-founder of Y-Combinator backed AI interpretability startup ‘dmodel.ai’. We sat down in June to discuss the underappreciated capabilities of the latest generation of AI models, and how individuals, institutions, and society is likely to respond, even if no further progress were made.

Full transcript with links and inline notes available here:

https://alethios.substack.com/p/anish-tondwalkar-the-societal-implications