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The Cognitive Revolution
367 episodes · Technology · by Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg
About The Cognitive Revolution
The Cognitive Revolution is a Technology podcast with 367 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
Universal Jailbreaks and Social Engineering Defense-in-Depth and Monitoring Strategies Open-Weight Model Risks and Pre-Training Filtering Dual-Use Cyber and Bio Tiers AI Progress and Economic Automation Age of M and Brain Emulations Historical Exceptionalism and Growth Adoption Barriers and Regulation
Notable Guests on The Cognitive Revolution
Recent Episodes
AI 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, 2026Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store — April 15, 2026It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast — April 11, 2026Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson — April 08, 2026Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson — April 04, 2026Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast — April 01, 2026Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey — March 25, 2026Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools — March 22, 2026Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More! — March 19, 2026AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF — March 16, 2026Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn — March 11, 2026Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life — March 08, 2026Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath — March 05, 2026Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving — March 01, 2026Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal — February 25, 2026Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post — February 22, 2026Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything — February 18, 2026Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi — February 14, 2026Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi — February 13, 2026
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