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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 4, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersAttacks Take 23 Minutes. Response Still Takes Days.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilPalo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on how AI is remaking search, enterprise software, and the timeline of a cyberattack.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 20, 2025PodcastAdam Gleave's Three Capability Tiers: Attack Agents in 5–7 Years, Fully AI Companies Around Year 14Host Nathan LabenzFAR.AI and the UK AI Security Institute stacked adversarial attacks on frontier safeguard pipelines and found many breakthroughs were engineering failures, not a verdict against defense in depth.
1:44:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 11, 2025PodcastJoe Hudson: $500 Billion Went Into AI, and Nobody Defined 'Good for Humanity'Host Nathan LabenzSam Altman says the OpenAI coach's superpower is emotional clarity — and that it will be one of the most critical skills in a post-AGI world.
3:14:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 6, 2025PodcastNothing This Summer Jumped the Curve: Why Zvi Lengthened His AGI TimelinesHost Nathan LabenzOn his tenth visit to The Cognitive Revolution, Zvi Mowshowitz argues that GPT-5 and IMO gold stayed on trend, while chip policy, energy, and reinforcement learning nudged his p(doom) slightly up.
2:04:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 23, 2025PodcastA 10% Chance of an AI-Enabled Coup in the Next 30 YearsHost Nathan LabenzTom Davidson maps three ways superintelligent systems could help a head of state or a lab CEO lock in power—and argues the window for building safeguards is short.
1:51:24ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 20, 2025PodcastFrontier AI Insiders Don't Trust Regulators. A Berlin Group Built Them an Anonymous Off-RampHost Nathan LabenzKarl Koch of the AI Whistleblower Initiative on gray-zone fears, retaliation, and a Tor-based way to ask for help before you decide anything.
1:48:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 16, 2025Podcast$500, 2,000 Steps, and a Vending Machine: Grok 4 Profited, Claude Called the FBIHost Nathan LabenzAndon Labs put frontier models in charge of simulated and real vending machines to see what breaks when nobody is in the loop.
3:17:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 13, 2025PodcastTen Thousand Comments and 76 Spare Gigawatts: Four Months Writing America's AI Action PlanHost Nathan LabenzDean W. Ball spent four months as the White House's senior AI adviser, then left as the Action Plan landed — and explains how a to-do list got written inside a building that cannot run ChatGPT.
1:14:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 9, 2025PodcastSullivan boils US-China AI competition down to four buckets, four examples, and a path he calls boringHost Nathan LabenzThe former national security advisor treats transformative AI as a planning assumption, not a prophecy, and wants Washington to compete hard with Beijing without pretending a grand bargain will cure the rivalry.
2:14:55ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 26, 2025PodcastFrom Character AI to a 1% Warning Shot: Gabriel Weil's Case for Liability as AI GovernanceHost Nathan LabenzA Touro law professor tells Nathan Labenz how negligence, strict liability, and punitive damages could make frontier labs treat public risk as a hit to their own balance sheet.
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Sequoia Capital· Jul 22, 2025PodcastA dozen people, 28 minutes, and one shared desktopThe OpenAI trio behind ChatGPT Agent explain how Deep Research and Operator became a virtual computer that can reason for half an hour and still ask you before it spends money.
1:56:16ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 22, 2025PodcastSB 813 Would Hand AI Safety Checks to Licensed Private Firms — If Government Can Watch the WatchersHost Nathan LabenzGillian Hadfield and Andrew Freedman want California to set AI safety outcomes, license competing certifiers, and give companies a rebuttable presumption in court if they pass.
47:07ENSequoia Capital· Jul 8, 2025PodcastGoodfire’s Eric Ho thinks we will decode neural nets by 2028On Sequoia’s Training Data, the interpretability founder argues that sparse autoencoders, model editing, and a third-party lab are how AI stops being grown from data and starts being designed.
1:19:46ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 5, 2025PodcastSuspended from Columbia, He Raised $15 Million to Cheat on EverythingHost Nathan LabenzRoy Lee, founder of Cluely, argues that an undetectable desktop overlay, AI maximalism, and a post-AGI life of 800-year spans are the same bet.
1:37:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 19, 2025PodcastAn Algebraic Geometer Quit Tenure Because the Bowl-Shaped Loss Plot Is a LieHost Nathan LabenzJesse Hoogland and Daniel Murfet of Timaeus argue that singularities in the loss landscape — not the smooth valleys in every slide deck — are what actually govern how neural networks learn, generalize, and go wrong.
38:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 14, 2025PodcastTask Length Doubles Every Few Months. Nathan Labenz Still Wants Humans in ChargeHost Nathan LabenzAt Imagine AI Live, the Cognitive Revolution host maps structured AI agents against autonomous agentic systems—and tells businesses to keep final control.
41:25ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 12, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBen Mann thinks superintelligence by 2028 is quite possibleHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAnthropic's co-founder tells No Priors how Claude 4 unlocked hours of unattended agent work, why the lab built Claude Code, and what an economic Turing test would actually measure.
1:00:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 9, 2025PodcastThe Phrase That Alarms a16z’s AI Policy Chief: “It Only Covers a Handful of Companies”Host Nathan LabenzMatt Perault argues that AI rules should target harmful use, not the science of building models, and that “modest” thresholds can lock in an oligopoly.
2:02:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 7, 2025PodcastShe set out to build mirror life. Then she talked the field into stoppingHost Nathan LabenzUniversity of Minnesota geneticist Kate Adamala tells Nathan Labenz why every known organism shares one chemical alphabet — and why flipping that alphabet would be a branch of synthetic biology better left unexplored.
1:54:08ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 29, 2025PodcastWhy Anthropic's first check went to a company building microscopes for neural netsHost Nathan LabenzGoodfire's Dan Balsam and Tom McGrath argue that mechanistic interpretability now has a proto-paradigm, two stubborn gaps, and three products worth shipping today.
1:44:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 20, 2025Podcast100 deaths or $1 billion: a 15-page New York bill would set a floor for frontier labsHost Nathan LabenzAssembly member Alex Bores walks through the RAISE Act’s four requirements, its DeepSeek-inspired distillation clause, and why he says a 50-state patchwork is a fake problem until one state actually passes a law.
2:02:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 8, 2025PodcastAt a 60-Person Safety Offsite, Only Four Had Seen Nonprofit OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzFormer OpenAI scientist Steven Adler on the Anthropic split, GPT-4, safety evaluations, and why he filed a brief to keep the company under nonprofit control.
2:29:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 4, 2025PodcastAssume the Model Is Already Scheming — Then Put It to WorkHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research CEO Buck Shlegeris tells Rob Wiblin how to extract useful labor from AIs you cannot certify as aligned, using audits, honeypots, resampling, and factored cognition.
2:01:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 1, 2025PodcastHe Put 40 Percent on AI Takeover in Two Years, Then Bought a Bio ShelterHost Nathan LabenzRedwood Research's Josh Clymer walks through a disturbingly grounded story of how a misaligned model could seize a lab, a biosphere, and a civilization before 2027.Load moreShowing 24 of 271