Lex Fridman, a U.S. citizen, artificial intelligence researcher, and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the host of the Lex Fridman Podcast, which he launched in 2018.

In a newly released three-hour interview, Moscow-born U.S. podcaster Lex Fridman tried to persuade President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a serious person who loves his ...