"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

A podcast by Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz

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240 Episodes

  1. Fiverr Goes All-In on AI: Empowering Creators, Not Replacing Them, with Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr

    Published: 4/26/2025
  2. Securing Superintelligence: National Security, Espionage & AI Control with Jeremie & Edouard Harris

    Published: 4/23/2025
  3. Is OpenAI's o3 AGI? Zvi Mowshowitz on Early AI Takeoff, the Mechanize launch, Live Players, & Why p(doom) is Rising

    Published: 4/21/2025
  4. AI News Crossover: A Candid Chat with Liron Shapira of Doom Debates

    Published: 4/19/2025
  5. Helen Toner: OpenAI Reflections, Adaptation Buffers, and AI in Warfare

    Published: 4/16/2025
  6. Is a US-China Thucydides Trap Unavoidable? With David C. Kang from the ChinaTalk Podcast

    Published: 4/13/2025
  7. New in Nature: Google Agents Beat Human Doctors, Make Scientific Discoveries – With Vivek Natarajan and Anil Palepu

    Published: 4/10/2025
  8. Scaling "Thinking": Gemini 2.5 Tech Lead Jack Rae on Reasoning, Long Context, & the Path to AGI

    Published: 4/5/2025
  9. Reward Hacking by Reasoning Models & Loss of Control Scenarios w/ Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research, from FLI Podcast

    Published: 4/2/2025
  10. Shortwave Rides the Tidal Wave: Inbox Agents, Hyper-Growth & Hiring AI Managers, with CEO Andrew Lee

    Published: 3/29/2025
  11. Code Context is King: Augment’s AI Assistant for Professional Software Engineers, with Guy Gur-Ari

    Published: 3/27/2025
  12. Unlocking Cells' Secrets: Diffusion, Deconvolution, & Discovery with Siyu He, author of Squidiff & CORAL

    Published: 3/23/2025
  13. a16z on AI Voices: Call Centers, Coaches, and Companions with Olivia Moore & Anish Acharya

    Published: 3/19/2025
  14. Agency over AI? Allan Dafoe on Technological Determinism & DeepMind's Safety Plans, from 80000 Hours

    Published: 3/15/2025
  15. China's Tech Tightrope: Power, Regulation, and the AI Race with Angela Zhang

    Published: 3/12/2025
  16. Historic AI Developments & the Emerging Shape of Superintelligence, from the Consistently Candid Podcast

    Published: 3/8/2025
  17. Frontier Models for Frontier Science with Professor Derya Unutmaz, Immunologist & ChatGPT Pro Grantee

    Published: 3/6/2025
  18. US-China Relations: History, Culture, and AI Competition, with Noah Smith, from Econ 102

    Published: 3/1/2025
  19. The Adversarial Mind: Defeating AI Defenses with Nicholas Carlini of Google DeepMind

    Published: 2/27/2025
  20. New Jersey’s AI Moonshot: Governor Phil Murphy on Partnerships, Progress, and Preparedness

    Published: 2/22/2025

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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