"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
Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z) (02.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The Machines Are Taking Our Jobs - Thank God? Emad Mostaque’s Guide to the next 1000 Days 28.09.2025
- Stripe's Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands 25.09.2025
- Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave 20.09.2025
- Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn 18.09.2025
- User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin 13.09.2025
- Coaching the Creators: Inside the Minds Building Frontier AI with Executive Coach Joe Hudson 11.09.2025
- Zvi Mowshowitz on Longer Timelines, RL-induced Doom, and Why China is Refusing H20s 06.09.2025
- In-AI Advertising: Better Answers for Users, Big Questions for Society, with ZeroClick's Ryan Hudson 04.09.2025
- Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery 30.08.2025
- Untangling Neural Network Mechanisms: Goodfire's Lee Sharkey on Parameter-based Interpretability 28.08.2025
- What if Humans Weaponize Superintelligence, w/ Tom Davidson, from Future of Life Institute Podcast 23.08.2025
- The AI Whistleblower Initiative: Supporting AGI Insiders When It Matters Most, w/ founder Karl Koch 20.08.2025
- Autonomous Organizations: Vending Bench & Beyond, w/ Lukas Petersson & Axel Backlund of Andon Labs 16.08.2025
- Dean W. Ball on America's AI Action Plan & 4 Months at the White House 13.08.2025
- Jake Sullivan on Navigating AI Uncertainty and Managing Competition with China 09.08.2025
- Sovereign AI: Geopolitical Strategy & Industrial Policy for Countries 3-193, with Anjney Midha, a16z 06.08.2025
- The Revolution in Services: General Catalyst's AI Rollup Strategy, with Marc Bhargava 02.08.2025
- Liability for AI Harms: How Ancient Law Can Govern Frontier Technology Risk, with Prof Gabriel Weil 26.07.2025
- Private Governance: Creating a Market in AI Regulation, with Dr. Gillian Hadfield & Andrew Freedman 23.07.2025
- The Dawn of Dynamic AI: RFT Comes Online, w/ Predibase CEO Dev Rishi, from Inference by Turing Post 17.07.2025
