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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 11, 2026PodcastCrunch Time: Ajeya Cotra's Playbook for the Months Before SuperintelligenceHost Nathan LabenzA conversation on recursive self-improvement, public warning systems, and using each generation of AI to align and control the next.
1:44:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 1, 2026PodcastNathan Labenz's p(doom) Is 10 to 90 Percent. He Is More Optimistic AnywayHost Nathan LabenzFive years ago, expecting AGI by 2035 made you an extremist. On The Intelligence Horizon, the Cognitive Revolution host explains why the same forecast now sounds bearish, and why he still thinks a defense-in-depth strategy might keep society on the rails.
1:43:39ENCognitive 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.
2:17:36ENCognitive 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.
2:25:42ENCognitive 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.
1:18:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 8, 2026PodcastIf AGI Is Cheap Intelligent Labor, Cyber Defense Should Become Continuous ForensicsHost Nathan LabenzAsymmetric Security founder Alexis Carlier argues that assuming AGI means redesigning defense around proactive digital forensics instead of alert triage.
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.
1:18:15ENCognitive 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.
1:13:24ENCognitive 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.
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.
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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.
1:28:17ENCognitive 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1:44:11ENCognitive 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 143