"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. …
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"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism
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Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica
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AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
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Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance
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AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
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RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo
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AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
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Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems
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Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
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Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
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Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
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Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics
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Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard
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Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI
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Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%
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AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen
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Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
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1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering
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AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
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The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
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AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More
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Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy
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Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research
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AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)
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Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
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AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)
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Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures
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Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
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Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
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All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology
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The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More
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Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform
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Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola
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"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate
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The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking
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AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute
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Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research
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Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve
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Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store
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It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
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Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson
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Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson
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Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
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Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
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Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools
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Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!
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AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF
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Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
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Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life
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Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
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Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
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Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal
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Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post
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Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything
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Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
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Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi
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AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security Founder Alexis Carlier
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Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi
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The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space
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AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws
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The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software
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AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!
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Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
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Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on Bringing AI to Data, Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG & More
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AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
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Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS
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Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast
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Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show
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The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS
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AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2
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AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1
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AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
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Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates
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Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski
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China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk
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Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks
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AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast
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What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit
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Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour
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