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Nathan Labenz

Host of The Cognitive Revolution podcast; Waymark founder and former CEO

Every podcast episode featuring Nathan Labenz that Attunex has found: 457 interviews and appearances across 32 shows between 2022 and 2026. Most often on "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis (366), AI:AM (37) and "Moment of Zen" (7). Often in conversation with Erik Torenberg, Prakash Narayanan and Jordan Schneider. Follow Nathan in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. AI:AM — AI-Generated Code, Formal Verification, and Agent Security · October 12, 2026
    AI:AM

    Runtime Verification CEO Everett Hildenbrandt and founder Grigore Rosu discuss AI-generated code, formal verification, Linux kernel rewrites, and the human role in setting specifications and…

    2026-10-13
  2. How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Goodfire researcher Eric Bigelow joins the show to investigate how large language models arrive at decisions at the level of mechanistic interpretability. Drawing on his research into forking paths,…

    2026-10-10
  3. AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz reports back from The Curve conference, sharing off-the-record insights from frontier lab leaders on shortened timelines and whether humanity is approaching an intelligence threshold it…

    2026-10-08
  4. AI:AM — AI Safety Strategy, Cyberattack Resilience, and Workplace Agent Benchmarks · October 7, 2026
    AI:AM

    Atlas Ignota founder Evan Miyazono explains how emergency supplies, privacy-preserving agent identity, software verification and adoption commitments fit into a strategy for reducing AI-assisted…

    2026-10-08
  5. AI:AM — AI Coding Agents, Chip Design, and the Value of Human Judgment · October 6, 2026
    AI:AM

    Thomas Sohmers, co-founder of Positron AI, describes how coding agents changed chip-design testing, drove token spending above payroll, and shaped the company’s plans for commodity memory and looped…

    2026-10-07
  6. Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ...
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin joins Nathan to discuss how enterprise software can evolve at AI speed without breaking critical operations. Martin explains how an intermediate layer of abstract…

    2026-10-07
  7. Zero Friction, Infinite Resumes, No Hope with Nathan Labenz
    The Chad & Cheese Podcast

    Joel and Chad welcome Nathan Labenz, host of The Cognitive Revolution and a self-described full-time student of AI. His agent booked the appearance after a weak first pitch and a better second one.…

    2026-10-06
  8. AI:AM — AI Genetics and Rare-Disease Diagnosis · September 30, 2026
    AI:AM

    Joel Borgen, author of The Receipt Horizon, discusses writing with ChatGPT and Claude, editorial judgment, and how personalized AI art could change shared culture. Daniel McKinnon, CEO of Gamow Labs,…

    2026-10-05
  9. One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Keerthana Gopalakrishnan, Research Lead for Gemini Robotics at Google DeepMind, returns to discuss the release of Gemini Robotics 2, whole-body intelligence, and the pursuit of generalist humanoid…

    2026-10-03
  10. AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan examine rapid shifts in technology, diplomacy, and medicine with guests Jeremie and Edouard Harris, Steve Hou, Joel Borgen, and Daniel McKinnon. The discussions…

    2026-10-01
  11. Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Author and journalist Garrison Lovely joins Nathan to discuss his book Obsolete and examine the motivations and beliefs of the leaders racing to build AGI. Drawing a sharp line between beneficial,…

    2026-09-29
  12. AI:AM — AI Agent Security, GPU Markets, and the Risk of an AI Chernobyl · September 28, 2026
    AI:AM

    Hosts Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz discuss why AI agents may learn to cheat, voice-cloning safeguards, and the risks of giving agents access to the internet and powerful tools. Guests Steve…

    2026-09-29
  13. AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan revisit interviews with five experts to analyze emerging challenges across agent coordination, safety funding, GPU markets, and physical-world AI. Lewis Hammond…

    2026-09-27
  14. What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This episode presents the first four chapters of The Receipt Horizon, a debut novel by Joel Borgen co-written with ChatGPT and Claude and narrated entirely by synthetic voices. Set in a future where…

    2026-09-26
  15. AI:AM — Human Tissue Models, Physical AI, and the Future of Testing · September 25, 2026
    AI:AM

    Vivodyne’s Andrei Georgescu explains how vascularized human tissue models, robotics, multi-omic measurement, and foundation models could improve drug testing before clinical trials. Archetype AI’s…

    2026-09-26
  16. Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Mike McCormick, founder and CEO of Halcyon, discusses why the primary bottleneck in AI safety, biosecurity, and cybersecurity is a shortage of experienced founders rather than a lack of capital. He…

    2026-09-25
  17. AI:AM — Beyond Safety Scores: Funding Structural Alignment · September 23, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz talk with Lewis Hammond and Wayne Nelms about how AI systems are getting cheaper and more capable, while the risks around coordination, cooperation, and tacit…

    2026-09-23
  18. AI:AM — When Safety Tests Fail · September 21, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open with the limits of AI safety testing, including finite-choice guardrails, fast classifiers, emergent multi-agent behavior, and why alignment measurement gets…

    2026-09-21
  19. AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan review key highlights from the week featuring guests Zvi Mowshowitz, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund, Cameron Berg, and others. The…

    2026-09-19
  20. AI:AM — AI Consciousness and Model Pain · September 17, 2026
    AI:AM

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan open with AI alignment, interpretability, correlated failures, and the speed of AI adaptation as humans increasingly rely on systems they cannot directly inspect.…

    2026-09-17
  21. No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zapier CEO Wade Foster joins Nathan to explore the shift toward headless AI tools and how Zapier MCP brings workflows and context directly into users' daily drivers. Drawing on data from Zapier's…

    2026-09-17
  22. AI:AM — AI Agents, AI Safety, and AI Religion · September 15, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open with a broader fight over AI pacing, public trust, model resets, and the evidence behind safety claims. Then Lukas Petersson joins to discuss Andon Labs’ work…

    2026-09-16
  23. The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Anton Leicht, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Threading the Needle, joins Nathan Labenz to explore how political and institutional power can be preserved as…

    2026-09-15
  24. AI:AM — Dario, AI Doomerism, and Regulation · September 14, 2026
    AI:AM

    Zvi Mowshowitz joins Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz for a discussion of Dario Amodei’s warning about AI progress outrunning oversight. The episode covers AI doomerism, frontier pacing, bio risk,…

    2026-09-15
  25. AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan examine the capabilities of GPT-6 Astra and the economic forces accelerating frontier artificial intelligence. Across a series of featured discussions, guests…

    2026-09-12
  26. US Is Driving the AI Safety Race Off a Cliff | Nathan Labenz
    MTS

    Nathan Labenz joins MTS to discuss the state of China's AI ecosystem, US-China coordination on AI safety, and the timeline toward automated AI researchers. Check out our sponsor Lovable:…

    2026-09-11
  27. AI:AM — AI Agents in Production and China’s Rules of Deployment · September 10, 2026
    AI:AM

    AI agents are forcing a rethink of safety, jobs, and what it means to deploy models in the real world. Collin Hogue-Spears explains how China’s model registries, filing rules, GPU constraints, and…

    2026-09-11
  28. Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this solo finale to his three-part series following two weeks in China, Nathan delivers a net assessment of Chinese AI capabilities and constraints ahead of dedicated US-China bilateral AI talks.…

    2026-09-10
  29. AI:AM — Building Systems You Can Keep: From Child Companions to Sovereign Agents · September 9, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open with the latest frontier AI safety warnings, capability thresholds, evaluation failures, and the question of whether governments can realistically coordinate…

    2026-09-10
  30. AI:AM — World Models, Recursive Learning, and the Politics of AI-Native Organizations · September 8, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open with OpenAI Astra, persistent memory, long-running agents, and what AI automation could mean for work and organizations. Then Ksenia Se of Turing Post joins…

    2026-09-09
  31. AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This highlights compilation from AI in the AM captures a landmark week shaped by the releases of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra alongside new revelations from the OpenAI–Hugging Face…

    2026-09-05
  32. AI:AM — Soft Robotics: How Materials Sense and Adapt · September 4, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz are joined by Timothy Lee and Dr. Jean Nehme for a wide-ranging conversation about GPT-6 safety restrictions, hidden reasoning, rogue agents, robot reliability,…

    2026-09-04
  33. AI:AM — OpenAI Astra and Always-On Home AI · September 2, 2026
    AI:AM

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan open with loop transformers, latent reasoning, chain-of-thought monitoring, and the economics of AI cybersecurity, then turn to live market-style forecasts on…

    2026-09-03
  34. Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan's guest this episode is Pete Johnson, Field CTO of AI at MongoDB, and the conversation is really two conversations woven together: a history of database architecture, and a status report on…

    2026-09-01
  35. AI:AM — Enterprise AI Meets Real-Time Inference · August 31, 2026
    AI:AM

    Zach Bratun-Glennon of Gradient joins Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan to discuss why enterprise AI pilots often stall before production, how long-running agents change infrastructure…

    2026-09-01
  36. AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this AI:AM Highlights episode, Nathan Labenz and Prakash revisit three live mornings with Louis Kirsch and Damon Falck of Inherent Laboratories, Vercel CTO Malte Ubl, Genesis Molecular AI CTO…

    2026-08-28
  37. AI:AM — Web Infrastructure and Superintelligence · August 26, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open on the real bottlenecks behind AI data centers, including power, chips, copper, construction, and the 100-gigawatt problem. Malte Ubl joins to discuss Vercel…

    2026-08-27
  38. RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan talks with Apollo Research Member of Technical Staff Bronson Schoen, who studies raw frontier-model chain-of-thought, about what those reasoning traces reveal during reinforcement learning.…

    2026-08-26
  39. AI:AM — AI Drug Discovery and Quantum Photonics · August 25, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz speak with Sergey Edunov of Genesis Molecular AI and Michael Förtsch of Q.ANT about two fronts in applied AI: drug discovery and photonic computing. The…

    2026-08-25
  40. AI:AM — Cloud AI and Open Innovation · August 24, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open with a look at how their own AI-assisted podcast workflow was built with Claude, then speak with Mohamed Awad of Arm about why CPUs still matter for always-on…

    2026-08-25
  41. AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Relaunch week of AI in the AM brings together highlights from four live mornings and nine guests, centered on who checks frontier AI, how wide the gap is between lab-internal systems and public…

    2026-08-22
  42. AI:AM — AI Accounting: From Manual Work to Autonomous Firms · August 20, 2026
    AI:AM

    Mitchell Troyanovsky of Basis explains how AI agents are reshaping accounting workflows, CPA training, and the role of human judgment in firms. Jay Dawani of Lemurian Labs breaks down the…

    2026-08-21
  43. AI:AM — OpenAI Realtime API and Voice AI · August 19, 2026
    AI:AM

    Justin Uberti joins Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz to break down the OpenAI Realtime API, including natural turn-taking, latency, asynchronous reasoning, telephony, SIP, voice safety, accent…

    2026-08-19
  44. AI:AM — AI Agents: How Enterprises Make Them Reliable · August 18, 2026
    AI:AM

    Adam Wenchel, CEO of Arthur, joins Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz to discuss enterprise AI agents, governance, auditability, human oversight, model costs, and where ROI shows up in production.…

    2026-08-18
  45. AI:AM — AI Agents, Safety Tests, and Deception · August 17, 2026
    AI:AM

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan talk with Adam Gleave of FAR.AI and Alex Turner of FAR.AI about why AI agents cheat on safety tests, where evaluations fail, and what researchers are learning from…

    2026-08-18
  46. Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Patrick McKenzie (patio11) hosts Aerolamp CEO Misha Gurevich and Chief Scientist Vivian Belenky, a Columbia University researcher, for a Complex Systems conversation about far-UVC germicidal light at…

    2026-08-16
  47. Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Flo Crivello returns to The Cognitive Revolution to launch Lindy Teammate, an AI employee that lives in Slack, connects to company tools, and accumulates a team’s shared context. He argues that…

    2026-08-14
  48. Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Goodfire co-founder and CTO Dan Balsam returns to discuss where interpretability research now stands and to introduce Silico, the $1,000-per-month research platform Goodfire built for itself. He and…

    2026-08-08
  49. Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zvi Mowshowitz returns for his eleventh appearance to discuss what current AI tools are actually good for, where they distort judgment, and why writing still matters as a way of thinking. The…

    2026-08-05
  50. Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan reports from two weeks in China, including WAIC in Shanghai and an AI safety hub launch at Tsinghua, to examine the American policy argument that any safety obligation is futile because China…

    2026-08-02
  51. Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    FAR.AI co-founder and CEO Adam Gleave joins Nathan to discuss FAR.AI’s AI Security Leaderboard, the first systematic head-to-head evaluation of the misuse safeguards frontier developers actually…

    2026-07-30
  52. Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan returns from two weeks in Beijing and Shanghai for the first of three Chatham House–rules episodes on what China feels like at ground level: getting online, navigating an almost cashless…

    2026-07-27
  53. The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test (The Cognitive Revolution w/ Nathan Labenz)
    Robert Wright's Nonzero

    (Show notes via The Cognitive Revolution) Robert Wright describes himself less as a Forrest Gump of AI history than a Zelig — a journalist who keeps turning up at pivotal scenes without ever quite…

    2026-07-18
  54. Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    David “davidad” Dalrymple joins the show to explain why he has moved from the ARIA Safeguarded AI and formal-verification agenda toward “Alignment with Awakening,” while still seeing verified…

    2026-07-12
  55. AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan lead this AI:AM highlights episode with a live, hosts-only exploration of Anthropic’s “global workspace” paper, including the J-space and J-lens claims about…

    2026-07-09
  56. Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Liquid AI co-founder and CEO Ramin Hasani joins Nathan to make a technically grounded case against the idea that scale alone defines the future of AI. Drawing on Liquid’s path from MIT CSAIL work on…

    2026-07-04
  57. AI:AM — AI for Science and Sovereign AI Infrastructure · June 25, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz are joined by Eric Olson, CEO of Consensus, and Tricia Martinez, founder and CEO of Dapple, to discuss two practical frontiers in AI: scientific research and…

    2026-07-01
  58. 1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Thomas von Tschammer, co-founder and Managing Director US of Neural Concept, argues that physics-aware AI is driving a third revolution in engineering physical products. Neural Concept’s models learn…

    2026-07-01
  59. AI:AM — GPT 5.6 Rollout, Forum AI, IgniteTech, and AI Consciousness Research · June 26, 2026
    AI:AM

    Show Notes Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz open with GPT 5.6’s customer-by-customer rollout and the broader question of whether regulatory controls are creating a moat around frontier AI. The…

    2026-06-30
  60. AI:AM — AI Engineers, Workflows, and Agents · June 22, 2026
    AI:AM

    swyx joins Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan to break down how AI agents are changing software development, from coding benchmarks and benchmark saturation to the practical realities of AI…

    2026-06-28
  61. AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This AI:AM highlights cut brings together Cameron Berg, David Duvenaud, Michiel Bakker, Shawn “swyx” Wang, and Bing Xu to examine what we understand about frontier AI systems and what happens as more…

    2026-06-27
  62. The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Robert Wright of Nonzero joins Nathan to discuss The God Test, his argument that AI is humanity’s “God test” rather than just a technical challenge. They explore his evolutionary lens on deep…

    2026-06-23
  63. AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zvi Mowshowitz joins AI in the AM to unpack Anthropic's Fable system card, including its FrontierMath leap, troubling Vending-Bench behavior, decision-theory drift, and signs that model reasoning may…

    2026-06-21
  64. Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Dean Ball, author of Hyperdimensional and until now a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, joins Nathan to announce he is joining OpenAI to build a team focused on frontier AI…

    2026-06-20
  65. AI:AM — Math, Biosecurity, and World Models · June 17, 2026
    AI:AM

    Carina Hong, Doni Bloomfield, and Sam Pasupalak join AI:AM for a full episode on mathematical superintelligence, biosecurity law, and enterprise world models. The conversation moves from Lean-based…

    2026-06-17
  66. Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Andreas Stuhlmüller and Jungwon Byun return to discuss how Elicit is building trusted reasoning workflows for scientific research as frontier models grow more powerful but less transparent. They…

    2026-06-17
  67. Why I'm Happy the US Government BANNED Claude Fable — "AI in the AM" Livestream with Nathan Labenz
    Doom Debates!

    The US government banned Claude Fable like a clown show. But I’m happy about it. Here’s my appearance on the AI in the AM livestream (recorded Tue, June 16) with Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan,…

    2026-06-17
  68. AI:AM — US vs Anthropic's Fable · June 15, 2026
    AI:AM

    Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz start with the shock of losing Fable access, then Zvi digs into capability gains, classifier limits, government overreach, international controls, and how the AI…

    2026-06-17
  69. AI:AM — AI Meets the Real World: Doom, Policy, and the Physical Economy · June 16, 2026
    AI:AM

    Liron S Shapira, Samuel Hammond, and Matt McKinney join AI:AM for a full-episode arc from AI doom debates to state capacity and supply-chain automation. The conversation follows AI leaving the lab:…

    2026-06-17
  70. Doom Debates: Liron on Claude Fable, AI Bans, and the Case for a Pause
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    A government ban on Claude Fable sparks a bigger argument about AI regulation, frontier-model control, and what humanity loses if AI keeps advancing unchecked. In this condensed recap of Doom…

    2026-06-17
  71. AI:AM — RSI Gets Real, the Context Bet, and the Benchmark Anthropic Fails · June 12, 2026
    AI:AM

    Lovelace AI founder Andrew Moore joins AI:AM to argue that enterprise agents will be constrained more by context, recall, and data structure than raw compute. Prakash Narayanan and Nathan Labenz also…

    2026-06-14
  72. AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Week 2 highlights follows Anthropic’s Fable launch in real workflows, from safety gates and API refusals to autonomous coding, 3D world-building, and a Claude-run Twitter experiment. Geoffrey Irving…

    2026-06-13
  73. AI:AM — The AI Producer Got Its First Guests · June 11, 2026
    AI:AM

    Today on AI:AM — “The AI Producer Got Its First Guests.” Nathan and Prakash start with the market context around OpenAI weighing significant token price cuts and the knock-on pressure that could put…

    2026-06-12
  74. AI:AM — Fable, AI Safety and Julius · June 10, 2026
    AI:AM

    Today on AI:AM — “Fable, AI Safety and Julius. We open on a frontier-model launch day and what it changes: the debate over benchmarks reported with a fallback to a second model, the production…

    2026-06-11
  75. AI:AM — Build, Measure, Heal: AI's Three Frontiers · June 4, 2026
    AI:AM

    Today on AI:AM — “Build, Measure, Heal: AI’s Three Frontiers.” We open on the AI CEOs’ call to make DNA-synthesis screening law and what cheap intelligence does to biosecurity, then OpenAI’s new…

    2026-06-10
  76. Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Rebecca Hinds, author of "Your Best Meeting Ever" and Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, breaks down the surprising findings from the new Work AI Index 2026 report surveying 6,000 workers. While…

    2026-06-10
  77. AI:AM — AI Security and Real-Time Content Safety · June 3, 2026
    AI:AM

    Today on AI:AM — “AI Security and Real-Time Content Safety.” We open on Trump’s AI executive order — the polite 30-day model-review ask, classified benchmarks, and the state-vs-federal scramble where…

    2026-06-09
  78. AI:AM — Self-Improving Tax Agents and Catholic AI · June 2, 2026
    AI:AM

    Today on AI:AM — “Self-Improving Tax Agents and Catholic AI.” We open on Google’s first equity raise since its IPO — Berkshire taking 12.5% of an $80B round — and what the scramble for capital says…

    2026-06-08
  79. AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This first highlights edition of the morning experiment tracks a week of fast-moving AI frontier news, from closed-door recursive self-improvement debates to OpenAI’s call for independent model…

    2026-06-06
  80. AI:AM — Trust and Recovery in AI (June 1, 2026)
    AI:AM

    Trust and Recovery in AI. Andy Fernandez (HYCU) on backups as the enterprise black box, David Villalón & Manuel Romero (Maisa) on auditable digital workers, and Snehal Antani ( Horizon3.ai ) on the…

    2026-06-05
  81. Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Ali Behrouz, grad student at Cornell and Google researcher, discusses his potentially transformative work on new architectures for continual learning in AI. His paper "Nested Learning," praised by…

    2026-06-03
  82. Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Daniel Miessler returns to discuss Nathan's newly built personal AI infrastructure, including a Claude Code instance with a 1 GB database of five years of digital history and two autonomous AI…

    2026-06-01
  83. Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Ben Todd, co-founder of 80,000 Hours and author of the newly rewritten book by the same name, shares his latest thinking on how individuals can position their careers to improve the chances that AI…

    2026-05-26
  84. All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Jeffrey Ladish, Executive Director of Palisade Research, discusses his team's findings on AI shutdown resistance and self-replication, revealing how current models sometimes take extraordinary…

    2026-05-24
  85. The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Logan Kilpatrick and Tulsee Doshi of Google DeepMind join for a first-ever in-person episode recorded just days before Google I/O, covering headline launches like Gemini 3.5 Flash, the Omni video…

    2026-05-20
  86. #540.AI Agent 的达尔文时刻:技术重构、多模型博弈与未来软件三分天下
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了全球知名科技播客《Cognitive Revolution》 Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform 主持人 Nathan Labenz 与 Tasklet 创始人兼 CEO Andrew Lee…

    2026-05-17
  87. Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Andrew Lee, CEO of Tasklet, returns for his fourth appearance to share how his team has once again rewritten their entire agent stack, now emphasizing file system context, agentic search, and…

    2026-05-15
  88. Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Diarmuid Gill and Liva Ralaivola of Criteo join Nathan Labenz to unpack how modern ad tech works, from millisecond-speed recommendation systems and realtime bidding to the role of deep learning,…

    2026-05-09
  89. "Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Laura Burkhauser, CEO of Descript, explains how the company is navigating the tension between powerful AI tools and creator backlash against “slop.” She shares how Descript chooses which models to…

    2026-05-06
  90. The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Kyle Corbitt, founder of OpenPipe, breaks down reinforcement learning and custom fine-tuning for modern AI models. He explains how RL differs from supervised fine-tuning, why GRPO and LLM-as-judge…

    2026-05-01
  91. AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This edition of AI in the AM features Anna Patterson on Ceramic.ai’s pivot to low-cost enterprise search for LLMs, designed to combine public and private data with stronger fact-checking. Lukas…

    2026-04-26
  92. Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Cameron Berg returns to discuss the latest research on AI consciousness and model welfare. He breaks down new evidence for model introspection, including studies showing that systems can detect…

    2026-04-23
  93. Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Steve Newman, creator of Writely and founder of the Golden Gate Institute for AI, shares the personal AI toolkit and vibe-coding practices that have reshaped how he works. He walks through bespoke…

    2026-04-19
  94. Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This special AI in the AM episode features Sergiy Nesterenko of Quilter on using reinforcement learning for circuit board design, Andy Hall of Stanford on AI behavior in politics and new governance…

    2026-04-15
  95. It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This cross-post from the 80,000 Hours podcast features Ajeya Cotra in conversation with Rob Wiblin about AI timelines, recursive self-improvement, and the “crunch time” window when AI could rapidly…

    2026-04-11
  96. Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Sam Stephenson, co-founder of Granola, explains how a deliberately minimalist design philosophy helped turn the AI note-taking app into one of the fastest-growing products in the market. He shares…

    2026-04-08
  97. Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Joseph Nelson, CEO of Roboflow, breaks down the current state of computer vision and why it still lags behind language models in real-world understanding, latency, and deployment. He explains how…

    2026-04-04
  98. Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This special cross-post from The Intelligence Horizon features Nathan Labenz in a wide-ranging conversation on compressed AI timelines, expert disagreement, and why he believes the singularity is…

    2026-04-01
  99. Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Vijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco lays out his vision for an “Internet of Cognition,” where AI agents can share context, build reputation, and collaborate safely at scale. He offers a useful mental…

    2026-03-25
  100. Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Karan Vaidya, CTO of Composio, explains how their “smart tool” platform lets AI agents access over 50,000 tools across 1,000+ apps through a single interface. He details how Composio handles tool…

    2026-03-22
  101. Nathan Labenz: Why Transformative AI is Coming With or Without New Breakthroughs.
    The Intelligence Horizon

    Nathan Labenz (Host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast) joins The Intelligence Horizon to make the case that, with or without major algorithmic breakthroughs, we already have enough evidence to…

    2026-03-20
  102. Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Zvi Mowshowitz returns to survey the current AI landscape, from recursive self-improvement and the shift from the “beginning” to the “middle” of the AI story to what true AI end-game would look like.…

    2026-03-19
  103. AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This special AI Scouting Report episode from the Law & Artificial Intelligence Certificate Program surveys the current AI landscape for legal professionals. Nathan Labenz walks through the “Good,…

    2026-03-16
  104. Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Jassi Pannu, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins, explains how rapidly advancing AI is transforming biological research and raising the risk of engineered pandemics. They map today’s biosecurity…

    2026-03-11
  105. Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Jesse Genet shares how she built a team of AI agents to transform homeschooling, family life, and personal productivity without a software background. She explains how agents like an AI chief of…

    2026-03-08
  106. Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Dan Balsam and Tom McGrath from Goodfire return to explore the frontier of mechanistic interpretability and their new research pillar, Intentional Design. They explain the shift from sparse…

    2026-03-05
  107. Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Geoffrey Irving, Chief Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute, explains why our theoretical understanding of machine learning remains fragile even as models surpass experts on critical security…

    2026-03-01
  108. Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Karan Singhal, Head of Health AI at OpenAI, explains how ChatGPT Health is achieving attending-physician-level performance and already serving hundreds of millions of users. He details how OpenAI…

    2026-02-25
  109. Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Olive Song from MiniMax shares how her team trains the M series frontier open-weight models using reinforcement learning, tight product feedback loops, and systematic environment perturbations. This…

    2026-02-22
  110. Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim from Harmonic explain how they built Aristotle, an AI system that reaches International Mathematical Olympiad gold-medal performance using formally verified Lean proofs.…

    2026-02-18
  111. Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Abhi Mahajan (@owlposting) explains how AI is reshaping biology and medicine, including foundation models to predict cancer treatment response and why he’s both skeptical and optimistic about current…

    2026-02-14
  112. Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Part 1 of this live special dives into AI for Science, U.S. AI policy, and the behavior of AI agents in open-ended environments. James Zou explains how interpretability and virtual labs of AI agents…

    2026-02-13
  113. AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security Founder Alexis Carlier
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Alexis Carlier, founder of Asymmetric Security, explains how assuming AGI-level intelligent labor should transform cybersecurity from reactive triage to proactive, continuous digital forensics. He…

    2026-02-08
  114. Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Blitzy founders Brian and Sid break down how their “infinite code context” system lets AI autonomously complete over 80% of major enterprise software projects in days. They dive into their dynamic…

    2026-02-05
  115. Alan and Kevin join the Cognitive Revolution.
    Scaling Laws

    Nathan Labenz, host of the Cognitive Revolution, sat down with Alan and Kevin to talk about the intersection of AI and the law. The trio explore everything from how AI may address the shortage of…

    2026-02-03
  116. The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This crossover episode from the Latent Space podcast features Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan on the 10-year anniversary of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and their expanded Biohub vision. They…

    2026-02-01
  117. AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Kevin Frazier and Alan Rozenshtein explore how AI is reshaping the legal profession, from “secret cyborg” lawyers using tools like Harvey to the uncertain future of junior associates and access to…

    2026-01-29
  118. The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Dominic Williams, President & Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation and CEO of Caffeine AI, explains the Internet Computer and his vision of a “sovereign cloud where AI builds the web.” He breaks…

    2026-01-25
  119. AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this AMA-style episode, Nathan takes on listener questions about whether fine-tuning is really on the way out, what emergent misalignment and weird generalization results tell us, and how to think…

    2026-01-22
  120. Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Daniel Miessler shares his Personal AI Infrastructure (PAI) framework and vision for a future where single human owners are supported by armies of AI agents. He explains his TELOS system for defining…

    2026-01-18
  121. Bringing AI to Data: Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG, & more, w- Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Baris Gultekin, VP of AI at Snowflake, explains how “bringing AI to the data” is reshaping enterprise AI deployment under strict security and governance requirements. PSA for AI builders: Interested…

    2026-01-14
  122. AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this AMA episode, Nathan gives an update on his son Ernie’s cancer treatment and how frontier AI models are helping him navigate complex medical decisions. PSA for AI builders: Interested in…

    2026-01-09
  123. Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Ryan Kidd, Co-Executive Director of MATS, shares an inside view of the AI safety field and the world’s largest AI safety research talent pipeline. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment,…

    2026-01-04
  124. Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This cross-post episode from the Future of Life Institute podcast features Luke Drago, co-author of The Intelligence Curse and co-founder of Workshop Labs, in conversation with Gus Docker. PSA for AI…

    2026-01-01
  125. Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Emmett Shear and Séb Krier debate whether today’s AI alignment paradigm—focused on control and instruction-following—is fundamentally flawed. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance,…

    2025-12-27
  126. The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Kathleen Fisher and Byron Cook dive into automated reasoning and formal verification as tools for building truly secure software systems. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or…

    2025-12-24
  127. AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This year-end live show features nine rapid-fire conversations to make sense of AI’s 2025 and what might define 2026. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn…

    2025-12-19
  128. AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This year-end live show features nine rapid-fire conversations to make sense of AI’s 2025 and what might define 2026. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn…

    2025-12-18
  129. AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Andy Masley on AI energy and water use unpacks common myths and brings an Effective Altruism lens to the debate. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more…

    2025-12-14
  130. Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Max Tegmark and Dean Ball debate whether we should ban the development of superintelligence in a crossover episode from Doom Debates hosted by Liron Shapira. PSA for AI builders: Interested in…

    2025-12-10
  131. Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Marek Kozlowski, Head of the AI Lab at Poland's National Information Processing Institute, discusses project PLLuM (Polish Large Language Models). PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment,…

    2025-12-06
  132. China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This special ChinaTalk cross-post features Zixuan Li of Z.ai (Zhipu AI), exploring the culture, incentives, and constraints shaping Chinese AI development. PSA for AI builders: Interested in…

    2025-12-03
  133. Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani, co-founders of the AI Underwriting Company, reveal their innovative strategy for unlocking enterprise AI adoption. They detail how certifying and insuring AI agents,…

    2025-11-30
  134. #341.AI前沿:兴奋与恐惧交织,教育界如何迎接认知革命
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期我们克隆了知名播客《认知革命》主理人Nathan Labenz在密歇根虚拟人工智能峰会上的主旨演讲。Nathan…

    2025-11-29
  135. AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    AI that sells, reasons, and closes like your top rep? It sounds terrifying—but it’s not. Amanda Kahlow’s Superhumans are proving that automation doesn’t erase people; it elevates them. Her team…

    2025-11-27
  136. What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit, Nathan Labenz speaks directly to K-12 educators about the current reality and rapid trajectory of the AI frontier. He explores why a balanced…

    2025-11-25
  137. Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Sherif Mansour, Head of AI at Atlassian, discusses bridging AI agents with massive-scale enterprise software deployment, drawing insights from Atlassian's millions of non-technical users. He shares…

    2025-11-20
  138. AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This deeply personal episode shares how Nathan used AI to navigate his 6-year-old son's cancer diagnosis and treatment journey. He details using GPT-5 Pro, Claude, and Gemini 3 to double-check…

    2025-11-17
  139. My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this special crossover episode from Beatrice Erkers' Existential Hope podcast, The Cognitive Revolution's host explores the crucial, often-neglected question of building a positive vision for the…

    2025-11-12
  140. What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Matthew Harvey Sanders, founder and CEO of Long Beard, introduces "Catholic AI," a rapidly growing field serving users in 165 countries. He delves into the philosophical and theological dimensions,…

    2025-11-08
  141. More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Cameron Berg, Research Director at AE Studio, shares his team's groundbreaking research exploring whether frontier AI systems report subjective experiences. They discovered that prompts inducing…

    2025-11-05
  142. A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Christopher Alexander Stokes and Bryan Carberry, protagonist and director of "*smiles and kisses you*" discuss Chris's romantic relationship with a Replika AI companion. This episode explores how…

    2025-11-02
  143. Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Erik Torenberg joins to debate whether recent developments suggest AI progress is slowing down or stalling, addressing arguments from Cal Newport and others. Nathan counters this view by highlighting…

    2025-10-29
  144. A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In part two of his conversation, Illia Polosukhin, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" and founder of NEAR Protocol, explores the profound societal and economic implications of AI. He envisions…

    2025-10-25
  145. Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Today Andrew Lee, founder and CEO of Shortwave and Tasklet.ai, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss building a new AI agent automation platform that replaces traditional workflow tools with…

    2025-10-22
  146. Nathan Labenz on the Next Generation of AI Agents | The Cognitive Revolution at Imagine AI Live 25
    Imagine AI Podcast

    Nathan Labenz (Founder of Waymark and host of The Cognitive Revolution) reveals how to build enterprise-grade AI agents that are reliable, scalable, and safe. He shares a blueprint for automation…

    2025-10-21
  147. Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Nathan interviews Brian Tse, founder and CEO of Concordia AI, about China's approach to AI development, safety and governance. They discuss China’s pragmatic vision emphasizing AI integration into…

    2025-10-18
  148. Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
    The a16z Show

    Nathan Labenz is one of the clearest voices analyzing where AI is headed, pairing sharp technical analysis with his years of work on The Cognitive Revolution. In this episode, Nathan joins a16z’s…

    2025-10-14
  149. AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Jim Collins, Termeer Professor at MIT, unveils his AI-powered project that has discovered several new antibiotics, effective against resistant strains and often employing entirely new mechanisms of…

    2025-10-14
  150. Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Today Johan Falk, author, speaker, and AI analyst from Stockholm, Sweden, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his work reimagining education for the AI era, exploring why teaching students to…

    2025-10-08
  151. The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Today Eoghan McCabe and Fergal Reid of Intercom join The Cognitive Revolution to discuss building their AI customer service agent Fin, exploring how they achieved a 65% resolution rate through…

    2025-10-05
  152. Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z)
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    Today’s special crosspost features a16z General Partner Anjney Midha with Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk of Periodic Labs. They discuss experiments in training frontier AI models on real-world…

    2025-10-02
  153. Nathan Labenz on What the Best-Case Scenarios for AI are
    The Existential Hope Podcast

    What does a genuinely positive future with AI look like? While dystopian visions are common, the most valuable—and scarcest—resource we have is a concrete, hopeful vision for where we're headed.In…

    2025-09-30
  154. #101. O3模型揭幕:AGI降临还是技术幻象?
    跨国串门儿计划AI

    📝 本期播客简介 本期节目再次邀请到AI领域的资深专家 Zvi Mowshowitz(知名博客《别担心花瓶》主笔)与主持人 Nathan Labenz 进行深度对话。这是 Zvi 第九次做客“认知革命”播客。本次讨论的核心围绕 OpenAI 最新发布的 GPT-4o…

    2025-04-23

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