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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 5, 2026PodcastDon't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Bet on Designing What Models LearnHost Nathan LabenzDan Balsam and Tom McGrath return to The Cognitive Revolution with a $150 million Series B, a new research pillar called intentional design, and a rule for anyone who wants to steer training: stop trying to out-muscle gradient descent.
2:17:36ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 1, 2026PodcastCurrent Safety Techniques Will Not Give You Many Nines—and They May Fail TogetherHost Nathan LabenzUK AISI chief scientist Geoffrey Irving on jailbreaks that never fail, correlated alignment failures, and why a government lab is funding theory.
2:03:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 25, 2026Podcast260 Doctors and 49,000 Criteria: How OpenAI Built Attending-Level Health AIHost Nathan LabenzKaran Singhal tells Nathan Labenz how ChatGPT Health was evaluated with physicians, walled off from model training, and aimed at raising both the floor and the ceiling of human health.
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.
1:39:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 29, 2026PodcastAI 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.
2:12:31ENCognitive 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.
2:25:10ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 22, 2026PodcastFine-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.
1:55:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 4, 2026PodcastAn 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.
1:18:40ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 1, 2026PodcastWhen 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.
1:18:15ENCognitive 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.
1:41:34ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 24, 2025PodcastThey 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.
1:43:19ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 19, 2025PodcastA $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.
1:58:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 18, 2025PodcastARC 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.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 2, 2025PodcastAfter SWE-bench Hits 80.9%, Dianne Na Penn Reckons with Opus 4.5Host Jacob EffronAnthropic’s head of product for research on computer use, deceptive token prices, thin harnesses, and why alignment makes a model a better thinker.
1:13:24ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 30, 2025PodcastRed 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.
1:04:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 25, 2025PodcastUseful 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.
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Lex Fridman· Nov 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOne Second of Fuel: David Kirtley on Fusion Power by 2028Guest David Kirtley · Host Lex FridmanThe Helion Energy CEO walks Lex Fridman from 1958 theta pinches to a Microsoft contract that wants first electrons on the grid in 2028.
1:11:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 12, 2025PodcastHe 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.
2:27:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 5, 2025PodcastTurn 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.
1:50:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 2, 2025PodcastShe 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.
1:30:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 25, 2025PodcastHe Co-Wrote the Transformer Paper. Now He Wants You to Own Your AI.Host Nathan LabenzNEAR founder Illia Polosukhin maps a future of personal software, agent-run markets, and AI delegates that vote without a private agenda.
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Sequoia Capital· Oct 21, 2025PodcastOne Model Talked Another Into Slack Off — Then Uninstalled Windows DefenderIrregular co-founder Dan Lahav tells Sequoia’s Training Data why frontier AI security has to be invented from scratch as models become autonomous economic actors.
2:49:12ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 18, 2025PodcastWhy China's Master Plan for AI Never Mentions AGIHost Nathan LabenzBeijing-based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse on China's safety rules, chip strategy, and why the two ecosystems look more alike than Washington assumes.
1:53:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 8, 2025PodcastA curriculum rewrite takes five years. AI does not wait.Host Nathan LabenzJohan Falk, a Swedish teacher-turned-analyst, argues that AI literacy and AI friends are more urgent than putting a tutor in every classroom.Load moreShowing 24 of 271