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The Cognitive Revolution
385 episodes · Technology · by Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
About The Cognitive Revolution
The Cognitive Revolution is a Technology podcast with 385 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. 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. To learn more: turpentine.co PodLexicon indexes every episode of The Cognitive Revolution and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on The Cognitive Revolution
RLVR and Emergent Deceptive Behavior Loop Transformers and Chain-of-Thought Redlines Pause, Pacing, and Industry Governance Cybersecurity, Bio Spillover, and Rogue Agents Robotics as a Separate Frontier Silico Platform Launch Predictive Data Debugging Concept Geometry in Models
Notable Guests on The Cognitive Revolution
Recent Episodes
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning — October 10, 2026AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked? — October 08, 2026Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ... — October 07, 2026One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids — October 03, 2026AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases — October 01, 2026Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor — September 29, 2026AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2% — September 27, 2026What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4 — September 26, 2026Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck — September 25, 2026AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis?? — September 19, 2026No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench — September 17, 2026The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well — September 15, 2026AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism — September 12, 2026Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica — September 10, 2026AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era — September 05, 2026Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance — September 01, 2026AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded? — August 28, 2026RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo — August 26, 2026AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026) — August 22, 2026Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems — August 16, 2026Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses — August 14, 2026Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent — August 08, 2026Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ... — August 05, 2026Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics — August 02, 2026Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard — July 30, 2026Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI — July 27, 2026Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5% — July 12, 2026AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen — July 09, 2026Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models — July 04, 20261000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering — July 01, 2026AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha — June 27, 2026The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test — June 23, 2026AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More — June 21, 2026Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy — June 20, 2026Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research — June 17, 2026AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026) — June 13, 2026Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work — June 10, 2026AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026) — June 06, 2026Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures — June 03, 2026Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup — June 01, 2026Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd — May 26, 2026All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology — May 24, 2026The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More — May 20, 2026Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform — May 15, 2026Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola — May 09, 2026"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate — May 06, 2026The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking — May 01, 2026AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute — April 26, 2026Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research — April 23, 2026Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve — April 19, 2026
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