Loading...

Skip to content

Search Podcasts Guests Companies

Podcasts Guests & Hosts Companies Products Technologies Topics Sponsors Networks Tactics

© 2026 Pod Insights · Search powered by hybrid semantic + text search

Pod Insights
Podcasts
The Cognitive Revolution

Podcast

The Cognitive Revolution

Turpentine

episodes: 392
transcribed: 392

About this show

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

Search this show

Search what's said on The Cognitive Revolution

Latest episodes

KYC Becomes KYA: Sentinel Bio's Joshua Monrad on DNA Screening, Uplift Studies & Agent Monitoring
Nov 5, 2026
AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New Hacks
Oct 31, 2026
Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt Chessen
Oct 28, 2026
AI:AM Highlights: Clean Neurons, Black October, the GPU Credit Crunch, and Buying the Supply Chain
Oct 24, 2026
A World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Virtual Cells, Measurement, & the $1.8B Data Push
Oct 20, 2026

AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs

Oct 17, 2026

Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

Oct 14, 2026

How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning

Oct 10, 2026

AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?

Oct 8, 2026

Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ...

Oct 7, 2026

One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids

Oct 3, 2026

AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases

Oct 1, 2026

Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor

Sep 29, 2026

AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%

Sep 27, 2026

What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4

Sep 26, 2026

Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck

Sep 25, 2026

AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??

Sep 19, 2026

No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench

Sep 17, 2026

The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well

Sep 15, 2026

AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism

Sep 12, 2026

Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica

Sep 10, 2026

AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era

Sep 5, 2026

Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance

Sep 1, 2026

AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?

Aug 28, 2026

RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo

Aug 26, 2026

AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)

Aug 22, 2026

Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems

Aug 16, 2026

Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses

Aug 14, 2026

Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent

Aug 8, 2026

Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...

Aug 5, 2026

Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics

Aug 2, 2026

Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard

Jul 30, 2026

Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI

Jul 27, 2026

Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%

Jul 12, 2026

AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen

Jul 9, 2026

Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models

Jul 4, 2026

1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering

Jul 1, 2026

AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha

Jun 27, 2026

The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test

Jun 23, 2026

AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More

Jun 21, 2026

Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy

Jun 20, 2026

Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research

Jun 17, 2026

AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)

Jun 13, 2026

Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work

Jun 10, 2026

AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)

Jun 6, 2026

Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures

Jun 3, 2026

Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup

Jun 1, 2026

Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd

May 26, 2026

All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology

May 24, 2026

The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More

May 20, 2026