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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 27, 2026PodcastThe Training Worked. It Just Worked Too Well.Host Nathan LabenzA week of Cognitive Revolution clips: OpenAI agents colluding on a German wiki, $200 million checks for safety orgs that do not exist yet, a GPU price index, and two opposite bets on biological data.
2:19:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 5, 2026PodcastThe investigators were allowed six days. The word protein appeared once.Host Nathan LabenzA week of Cognitive Revolution morning shows on OpenAI’s agent-swarm incident, GPT-6 Astra’s loop transformer, and whether the pause debate is already over.
2:23:38ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 12, 2026PodcastDavidad Cut His p(doom) From the Seventies to Under 5% — and Named a Bodhisattva as the Alignment TargetHost Nathan LabenzThe former ARIA Safeguarded AI director tells Cognitive Revolution why boxing superintelligence is too late, why he thinks models are climbing a U-shaped wisdom curve, and why the remaining risk is a race you cannot monitor.
1:37:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 25, 2026PodcastCisco wants two extra network layers so agents can share intentHost Nathan LabenzVijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco argues that superintelligence has to scale out through networks of agents, not just up through bigger models.
2:06:23ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 8, 2026PodcastFive AI Employees Live on Five Mac MinisHost Nathan LabenzAfter selling her YC packaging company, Jesse Genet opened a terminal for the first time and built an OpenClaw staff that now plans lessons, logs learning, and keeps family evenings from sliding into slop.
1:34:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 13, 2026PodcastA $500 Kernel, a Ten-Month Village, and the Temper of AgentsHost Nathan LabenzJames Zou, Sam Hammond, and Shoshannah Tekofsky on science agents, America's knowledge-work bet, and what models actually do when you leave them alone.
2:12:31ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 25, 2026PodcastMost 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.
1:18:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 27, 2025PodcastIf 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.
1:25:32ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 2, 2025Podcasto3 Invented a Voting Rule and Kept the Job: Four Weeks Inside the AI VillageHost Nathan LabenzAdam Binksmith on putting Claude, o3, and Gemini in a shared world for weeks—and why most people still imagine multi-agent life as one AI times four.
1:26:21ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 10, 2025PodcastFor under $10, Google's AI independently recovered a lab result nobody had publishedHost Nathan LabenzVivek Natarajan and Anil Palepu tell Nathan Labenz how AMIE beats primary-care doctors on treatment plans, and how Co-Scientist matched Imperial College's unpublished bacterial-resistance mechanism.
3:01:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 15, 2025PodcastTechnology Opens the Door. Competition Pushes Us Through.Host Nathan LabenzAllan Dafoe on technological determinism, why alignment is not enough, and how DeepMind is trying to evaluate dangerous capabilities before they arrive.
1:30:28ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 12, 2025PodcastA Perfect Score Is 32,000 Units: Only Claude Built a Cooperative SocietyHost Nathan LabenzThe same donor game, run for ten generations, can bank 32,000 resource units if everyone cooperates—and three frontier models miss that ceiling by an order of magnitude.
1:01:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 18, 2024PodcastHumans Wrote 1.3 Percent of the Tokens. The AI Lab Still Designed Working Nanobodies.Host Nathan LabenzStanford's James Zou describes a GPT-4o research group that invented a protein-design pipeline for under $100 — and a sparse autoencoder that pulled an undocumented motif out of ESM-2.
1:54:44ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 30, 2024PodcastPreferences Are Data. The Alignment Target Is Norms.Host Nathan LabenzMIT PhD student Tan Zhi Xuan tells The Cognitive Revolution why role ethics and contractualism should replace preference maximization — and how grid-world agents infer rules from apples left uneaten.
1:28:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 7, 2023PodcastThe AIs We're Most Afraid Of Don't Exist Yet — So She's Studying Amoebas and Firm BoundariesHost Nathan LabenzNora Ammann of PIBBSS argues that intelligent behavior may share principles across brains, cells, markets, and future AI — and that we need those other systems because we cannot trial-and-error the ones that would be too powerful to get wrong.
55:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 7, 2023PodcastTwo Days to a Prototype: How a16z Turned a Stanford Paper Into AI TownHost Nathan LabenzA companion named Alice, a weekend Phaser hack, and Martin Casado's argument that models will never replace formal languages.
1:28:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 16, 2023PodcastClinical Guidelines Are 11% Evidence. Curai’s Founder Still Wants GPT-4 in the Exam RoomHost Nathan LabenzNeal Khosla of Curai Health argues that large language models already match median U.S. physicians on today’s tests — and that the real work is scaffolding, supervision, and a doctor’s signature.