"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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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Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & th...
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AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a...
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No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automati...
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The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Th...
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AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency...
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Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road t...
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AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
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Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Ag...
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AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
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RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Br...
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AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
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Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, f...
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Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Ch...
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Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month...
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Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFac...
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Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics
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Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderbo...
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Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Atti...
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Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom)...
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AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips,...
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Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Nati...
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1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineeri...
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AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swy...
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The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
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AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistic...
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Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Char...
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Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World...
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AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)
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Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI a...
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AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)
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Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of A...
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Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI,...
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Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hou...
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All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-R...
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The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3....
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Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horiz...
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Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid G...
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"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love...
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The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environm...
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AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & effi...
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Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Wel...
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Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve
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Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first...
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It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,00...
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Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam...
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Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with...
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Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence...
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Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vij...
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Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Build...
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Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs...
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