"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
A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR (25.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 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
- Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI
- The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom
- Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z)
- The Machines Are Taking Our Jobs - Thank God? Emad Mostaque’s Guide to the next 1000 Days
- Stripe's Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands
- Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave
- Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn
- User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin
- Coaching the Creators: Inside the Minds Building Frontier AI with Executive Coach Joe Hudson
- Zvi Mowshowitz on Longer Timelines, RL-induced Doom, and Why China is Refusing H20s
- In-AI Advertising: Better Answers for Users, Big Questions for Society, with ZeroClick's Ryan Hudson
- Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery
- Untangling Neural Network Mechanisms: Goodfire's Lee Sharkey on Parameter-based Interpretability
- What if Humans Weaponize Superintelligence, w/ Tom Davidson, from Future of Life Institute Podcast
- The AI Whistleblower Initiative: Supporting AGI Insiders When It Matters Most, w/ founder Karl Koch
- Autonomous Organizations: Vending Bench & Beyond, w/ Lukas Petersson & Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- Dean W. Ball on America's AI Action Plan & 4 Months at the White House
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