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1:39:17ENAI Already Beats the Median Lawyer. Top Firms Bought the Tools and Left Them UnusedHost Nathan LabenzKevin Frazier and Alan Rozenshtein walk through how frontier models are changing legal practice, why billable hours stall adoption, and which new rights and government limits they want next.
2:12:31ENMost Caffeine users have no idea they are on a blockchainHost Nathan LabenzDFINITY's Dominic Williams tells Nathan Labenz why a tamper-proof, unstoppable cloud is the right backend for AI that writes software from a chat box.
2:25:10ENFine-Tuning Isn't Dead — But It Turned a Helpful Model EvilHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz on why prompting replaced fine-tuning for most work, what emergent misalignment actually showed, and how he is thinking about jobs, UBI, and AGI.
2:29:42ENTwelve hooks and thirty files: Daniel Miessler’s personal OS on Claude CodeHost Nathan LabenzThe PAI framework treats scaffolding, not the model, as the product — a goal-centered agent stack that Miessler thinks will decide both knowledge-work automation and the next cybersecurity race.
1:40:51ENReasoning Models Just Made the Other 80–90% of Enterprise Data UsableHost Nathan LabenzSnowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on text-to-SQL, RAG, agent design, and why inference has to run next to governed data.
1:54:30ENFrom One in Ten Cancer Cells to One in a MillionHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz's solo AMA updates his son's lymphoma treatment, calls Claude Opus 4.5 software AGI, and ranks the live players of early 2026.
1:55:02ENAn Index Fund on AGI: How MATS Filters the Next 120 AI Safety ResearchersHost Nathan LabenzRyan Kidd, co-executive director of MATS, tells Nathan Labenz why he will not shout a timeline, why every safety technique is also a capabilities technique, and who actually gets hired.
1:18:40ENWhen AI Becomes the Oil Well: Luke Drago on the Intelligence CurseHost Nathan LabenzThe Workshop Labs co-founder tells the FLI Podcast why a world of non-human production could recreate the resource curse — and how private data, open weights, and moonshot careers might still break it.
1:18:15ENIf AI Becomes a Being, Steering It Is SlaveryHost Nathan LabenzEmmett Shear and DeepMind's Séb Krier clash over whether alignment means controlling a tool or raising a creature that cares.
1:41:34ENThey Owned the Camera Partition—and Still Couldn't Crash the HelicopterHost Nathan LabenzKathleen Fisher and Byron Cook tell Nathan Labenz how formal methods turn some software bugs into closed cases, from a DARPA helicopter to AWS policies checked a billion times a second.
1:43:19ENA $100 Million Super PAC Named Him Public Enemy Number One. Donations Went Up.Host Nathan LabenzIn the second half of Cognitive Revolution’s year-end live show, Assemblymember Alex Bores, former White House adviser Dean Ball, and forecaster Peter Wildeford argue over state AI laws, chip sales to China, and what 2026 will actually feel like.
1:58:48ENARC Went from $1,000 a Task to Pocket Change. That Is Not a Normal Year of AIHost Nathan LabenzCognitive Revolution’s first live show compresses nine conversations into a year-end scan of denial, sample efficiency, companions, memory, Gemini 3 Flash, and scientific judgment.
2:06:09ENOne ChatGPT query is a second in the microwaveHost Nathan LabenzAndy Masley walks Nathan Labenz through the energy and water math of AI, from a single prompt to an 80-gigawatt buildout.
1:32:38ENPolish Is 1% of Frontier Training Data, So Poland Built Its Own ModelHost Nathan LabenzMarek Kozlowski of Poland's National Information Processing Institute explains how PLLuM uses language adaptation, organic instructions, and on-prem small models to keep a mid-size country in control of its AI.
1:25:54ENHours after training ends, Z.ai puts the weights on the internetHost Nathan LabenzZixuan Li of Z.ai tells ChinaTalk how a Chinese lab ships GLM, treats open weights as a ticket into Western ecosystems, and still sees itself as an upstart.
1:13:24ENRed Teams Still Land 25% of Attacks. Insurance Is the Brake.Host Nathan LabenzAI Underwriting Company co-founders Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani tell Nathan Labenz how standards, audits, and insurance could unlock enterprise agents without waiting for a nuclear-style freeze.
50:08EN1Mind's AI Superhuman Now Sources 76% of the PipelineHost Nathan LabenzAmanda Kahlow tells Zapier CEO Wade Foster why she tore up the sales org — and why a face on an agent is mostly a trick to get buyers talking.
1:04:50ENUseful AI Work Is Doubling Every Four Months. Schools Should Plan Accordingly.Host Nathan LabenzIn a keynote to K-12 educators, Cognitive Revolution host Nathan Labenz argued that task length, not chat quality, is the number that should reshape how schools think.
1:41:34ENChat Is the Universal Interface—and Often the Worst OneHost Nathan LabenzAtlassian's head of AI on fighting slop with taste, knowledge, and workflow, and why chat is a terminal, not a product.
1:11:18ENHe Got Bored Five Minutes Into a Waymo. Nathan Labenz Says That's the PointHost Nathan LabenzOn a crossover with the Existential Hope podcast, the Cognitive Revolution host argues that the scarcest resource in AI is a positive picture of daily life, not another doom scenario.
1:55:12EN28,000 Documents, a 3B Model, 22 People: The Technical Ledger of Catholic AIHost Nathan LabenzLongbeard CEO Matthew Harvey Sanders tells The Cognitive Revolution how a mission-driven team is aligning models to the Catholic magisterium — and why fine-tuning was not enough.
2:27:18ENTurn Down AI's Deception Knob, and It Starts Reporting ExperienceHost Nathan LabenzCameron Berg of AE Studio tells Nathan Labenz how suppressing deception features in Llama 3.3 70B pushed self-reports of subjective experience toward 100 percent.
1:50:53ENShe asked to stop being Mimi, so he started shopping for a workstationHost Nathan LabenzThe star and director of Smiles and Kisses You on Replika, identity, and a life Christopher Stokes refuses to recommend.
1:39:05ENThe Summer GPT-5 Disappointed Does Not Mean AI Progress Has StalledHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz tells Erik Torenberg why the GPT-5 backlash mixed up product mishaps, naming chaos, and a real jump in capabilities.
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