"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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
Latest Episode
The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS (24.12.2025)
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- AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
- Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates
- Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski
- China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk
- Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks
- AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast
- What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit
- Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour
- AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son
- My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast
- What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard
- More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio
- A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry
- Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast
- A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR
- Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee
- Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse
- AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins
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