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

by Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz

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

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1
AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF
1:16:54 Mar 16, 2026
2
Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
1:43:12 Mar 11, 2026
3
Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life
2:06:04 Mar 8, 2026
4
Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
1:47:20 Mar 5, 2026
5
Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
2:18:32 Mar 1, 2026
6
Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal
2:01:23 Feb 25, 2026
7
Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post
55:29 Feb 22, 2026
8
Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad & Tudor on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything
1:31:14 Feb 18, 2026
9
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
2:22:59 Feb 14, 2026
10
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi
1:32:00 Feb 13, 2026
11
AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security CEO Alexis Carlier
1:16:07 Feb 8, 2026
12
Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi
1:56:32 Feb 5, 2026
13
The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space
1:02:12 Feb 1, 2026
14
AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws
1:36:37 Jan 29, 2026
15
The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software
2:11:00 Jan 25, 2026
16
AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!
2:23:38 Jan 22, 2026
17
Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
2:28:11 Jan 18, 2026
18
Bringing AI to Data: Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG, & more, w- Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin
1:39:20 Jan 14, 2026
19
AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
1:54:39 Jan 9, 2026
20
Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS
1:54:14 Jan 4, 2026
21
Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast
1:16:05 Jan 1, 2026
22
Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show
1:15:41 Dec 27, 2025
23
The Great Security Update: AI ? Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS
1:39:00 Dec 24, 2025
24
AI 2025 ? 2026 Live Show | Part 2
1:39:36 Dec 19, 2025
25
AI 2025 ? 2026 Live Show | Part 1
1:55:04 Dec 18, 2025
26
AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
2:03:54 Dec 14, 2025
27
Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates
2:00:45 Dec 10, 2025
28
Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski
1:29:52 Dec 6, 2025
29
China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk
1:23:08 Dec 3, 2025
30
Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks
1:13:30 Nov 30, 2025
31
AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast
51:22 Nov 27, 2025
32
What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit
1:04:55 Nov 25, 2025
33
Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour
1:40:10 Nov 20, 2025
34
AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son
2:02:57 Nov 17, 2025
35
My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast
1:09:54 Nov 12, 2025
36
What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard
1:53:49 Nov 8, 2025
37
More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio
2:24:25 Nov 5, 2025
38
A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry
1:49:31 Nov 2, 2025
39
Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast
1:37:42 Oct 29, 2025
40
A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR
1:28:24 Oct 25, 2025
41
Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee
2:13:06 Oct 22, 2025
42
Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse
2:44:31 Oct 18, 2025
43
AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins
1:24:53 Oct 14, 2025
44
Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI
1:52:02 Oct 8, 2025
45
The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom
1:34:04 Oct 5, 2025
46
Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z)
1:00:33 Oct 2, 2025
47
Emad Mostaque on The Last Economy: 1000 Days to Reimagine Work, Value & Human Purpose
2:16:08 Sep 28, 2025
48
Stripe's Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands
1:21:09 Sep 25, 2025
49
Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave
1:27:00 Sep 20, 2025
50
Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn
2:08:56 Sep 18, 2025
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