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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 11, 2026PodcastFive Mutations Could Make a 60% Fatal Bird Flu Spread Between PeopleHost Nathan LabenzJohns Hopkins assistant professor Jassi Pannu argues for locking down only the sliver of functional data that teaches models how to make pandemic viruses — and keeping the rest of biology open.
2:25:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 14, 2026PodcastThe experts argued through the coffee break — and never agreed whether AI can build AIHost Nathan LabenzOn a marathon Cognitive Revolution live show, a cancer-AI researcher, a former OpenAI board member, and a national-security analyst each hit a different wall in the boom.
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.
1:04:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 1, 2026Podcast125 million cells took a decade. The next billion takes monthsHost Nathan LabenzMark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan on pairing a frontier biology lab with a frontier AI lab so models train on data that was designed for them.
1:29:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 14, 2025Podcast2,500 Compounds and a 51 Percent Hit Rate: How a Small Graph Net Found New AntibioticsHost Nathan LabenzMIT's Jim Collins tells Nathan Labenz how a bootlegged 2018 project, a binary growth-inhibition label, and Chemprop graph networks pulled novel antibiotics out of chemical space that labs could never screen by hand.
1:01:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 2, 2025PodcastChatGPT's Co-Creator Left to Put Nature in the Reward LoopHost Nathan LabenzLiam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk on why language models still fail at physics, why literature data is too noisy to train on, and why Periodic Labs is aiming at a 200K superconductor.
1:55:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 30, 2025PodcastA hundred experiments a day, and the valley of death in materialsHost Nathan LabenzRadical AI’s co-founders tell Nathan Labenz how a closed loop of frontier models and a self-driving lab is meant to collapse a forty-year materials cycle into less than a decade.
1:12:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 4, 2025PodcastGoogle's AI Co-Scientist Solved a Phage Puzzle Humans Missed for YearsHost Nathan LabenzImperial College scientists José Penadés and Tiago Costa told the Podovirus podcast how a still-unreleased Google system recovered their unpublished answer: tailless capsids that pick up stray phage tails.
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.
1:43:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 23, 2025PodcastA Year to Grow a Brain Organoid, an Hour to Simulate ItHost Nathan LabenzStanford postdoc Siyu He tells Nathan Labenz how Squidiff and CORAL move single-cell and spatial experiments into the computer — and where the models still cannot go.
1:31:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 6, 2025PodcastThirty Years of Research, Collapsed into One SentenceHost Nathan LabenzImmunologist Derya Unutmaz on writing a medical patent in half an hour, treating o1 Pro as a professor-level collaborator, and why he no longer trusts his own expertise until he asks the model.
1:40:22ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 22, 2025PodcastTwenty-atom crystals taught an AI the physics of a heartbeatHost Nathan LabenzOrbital Materials' Jonathan Godwin and Tim Duignan tell Nathan Labenz how a neural network trained on tiny crystals simulated a potassium ion channel on a single 2017 GPU.
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.
1:55:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 5, 2024PodcastAI Beats Humans at Reading Papers. It Still Cannot Count Atoms.Host Nathan LabenzAndrew White, Head of Science at Future House, maps what language models can already do in chemistry and biology—and the bottlenecks they do not dissolve.
1:23:37ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 23, 2024PodcastNine of the top ten research ideas were Claude'sHost Nathan LabenzStanford PhD student Chenglei Si ran a blind study pitting Claude 3.5 Sonnet against more than a hundred NLP researchers on novel research ideas.
1:13:23ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 12, 2024PodcastAn AI Found a GABA-Cancer Link. The Next Step Is Talking to the Cells.Host Nathan LabenzMichael Levin and Leo Pio Lopez on a multilayer embedding that predicted melanoma, a cancer with no mutations, and why biology's real interface is cognitive.
1:18:32ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 20, 2024PodcastA DNA Model That Can Tell Which Genes You Cannot TouchHost Nathan LabenzStanford's Brian Hie walks through hybrid architectures, a genome-scale language model trained only on DNA, and an antibody that binds 25 times tighter than nature.
1:54:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 26, 2024PodcastA Tiny Network Grew a Salt Crystal the Training Data Never ShowedHost Nathan LabenzTim Duignan trained tens of thousands of parameters on salt water. The model invented a crystal — and a continuum solvent theory he had spent a PhD failing to write by hand.
1:59:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 25, 2024PodcastA Protein Backbone in a Minute: The Real Progress, Bottlenecks, and Risks of AI BiologyHost Nathan LabenzThe White House set a thousand-fold lower reporting bar for biological models than for language models—and this conversation shows why that gap already looks prescient.
1:20:44ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 30, 2024PodcastSeeing Like a Mamba: Vision, Rotting States, and a Cell Model in 90 DaysHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Jason Meaux survey the vision papers, long-context experiments, and biology work that followed the original Mamba release.
1:25:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 9, 2024PodcastTwo-Headed Worms, Regenerated Legs, and a Sort That Learned to WaitHost Nathan LabenzTufts biologist Michael Levin tells Cognitive Revolution why anatomy is rewritable software, and why he stopped a paper that might have made AI more alive.
1:50:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 12, 2024PodcastTwenty-Eight Days After GPT-4, an AI Designed and Ran a Chemistry ExperimentHost Nathan LabenzGabe Gomes and his Carnegie Mellon students built Coscientist, a language-model agent that plans, codes, and executes real experiments on a remote cloud lab.
1:45:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastTrust at Scale: Elicit's Founders on Reasoning Languages, World Models and Automating the CompanyHost Nathan LabenzAndreas Stuhlmüller and Jungwon Byun explain how Elicit keeps frontier models checkable for high-stakes science, and where they think AI reasoning is heading.
1:03:59ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastBuilding a World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Why Better Measurement Must Come Before Virtual CellsHost Nathan LabenzBiohub's head of science explains why today's virtual cell models fall short, how a $1.8 billion data push aims to fix it, and what a five-year information-level model of the cell could unlock.Load moreShowing 24 of 26