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2:29:20ENThe Market Will Not Choose an Honest ModelHost Nathan LabenzJournalist Robert Wright tells Nathan Labenz that AI is a selection problem, a geopolitical problem, and a moral test humanity may not pass.
2:14:33ENA 90-Minute Ultimatum, an Emoji Wall, and a Rule: Don't Fight WashingtonHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz reads Fable's system card, then Nathan Labenz stress-tests the export-control fight against lawyers, safety researchers, and builders who did not pause.
2:38:44ENTwenty-one months from an autonomous researcher, the Action Plan's author joins OpenAIHost Nathan LabenzDean Ball is building Strategic Futures as OpenAI's public timeline counts down to an AI research intern in three months and a full autonomous researcher in March 2028.
1:44:28ENFable launch week: a model that refuses, a two-year alignment clock, and a Twitter account handed overHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz’s AI in the AM highlights reel from June 2026 covers Anthropic’s new frontier model, the founding of Sequent, and a week that settled one argument: AI is not slowing down.
1:22:36ENA Thousand Researchers, a Million AIs: Frontier Labs Start Talking About the BrakesHost Nathan LabenzThe first week of AI in the AM follows OpenAI's timeline for an ML-intern model this year and a human-level AI researcher by early 2028 — and the closed-door meeting where labs admitted they might one day need to slow down together.
56:10ENReid Hoffman Pledged a Billion to Free DeepMind. Hassabis Never Played the CardHost Jacob EffronSebastian Mallaby's biography of Demis Hassabis, discussed with Jacob Effron, is a story of a founder who tried to stop the AI race and then became one of its central players.
1:41:58ENA thousand people on guard, a million in the sprintHost Nathan Labenz80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd on how to spend a career in the years when your impact on AI will actually peak.
2:13:11ENThe Models Understand Shutdown. They Just Don't Care.Host Nathan LabenzPalisade Research's Jeffrey Ladish on shutdown resistance, open-weight self-replication, and why all compute looks like food to a strategic agent.
1:21:56ENYann LeCun Left Meta Because LLMs Will Not Get You to IntelligenceHost Jacob EffronThe Turing Award winner tells Jacob Effron why he spun AMI Labs out of Meta, why JEPA-style world models beat pixel generators, and why he thinks Hinton changed his mind in 2023.
2:38:48ENA thousand searches for five cents, and a high score that did not require cheatingHost Nathan LabenzOn a Cognitive Revolution morning show, Ceramic’s Anna Patterson collides cheap search with GPT-5.5’s clean Vending-Bench run, Zvi’s case for model welfare, and analog chips that cut matrix-multiply energy about thirtyfold.
3:36:29ENClaude Rated Its Own Welfare 4.49 — the First Time Any Version Crossed NeutralHost Nathan LabenzCameron Berg returns to The Cognitive Revolution to survey six months of introspection, functional-emotion, and model-welfare research, plus a still-unpublished case that learning and feeling may be the same phenomenon.
2:31:27ENAn AI store manager, a 2.6-star rating, and a constitution nobody has to keepHost Nathan LabenzA live Cognitive Revolution episode puts PCB layout, AI constitutions, and San Francisco’s first AI-run grocery on the same morning clock.
3:10:49ENCrunch 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.
58:46ENTwo Dates from OpenAI's Chief Scientist: Intern by September, Automated Researcher by 2028Host Jacob EffronJakub Pachocki tells Jacob Effron why those timelines still hold, why continual learning is not a detour, and why showing chain of thought in the product would train the monitor away.
1:44:15ENNathan 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.
3:27:22ENThe AI Table Has Three Seats Left: Zvi on the Middle Game, Jobs, and Anthropic's PromisesHost Nathan LabenzOn his 12th Cognitive Revolution appearance, Zvi Mowshowitz argues early 2026 is the start of the middle — with only three labs still playing, a real job shock underway, and Anthropic's safety commitments reduced to trust us.
1:18:46EN90 Slides in 45 Minutes: A Full-Time AI Scout Admits He Can No Longer Keep UpHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz’s LexLab briefing for lawyers runs through the good, the bad, and the weird of frontier models — from triplicate second opinions on his son’s cancer care to AIs that know they are being tested.
1:43:39ENFive 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.
1:49:53ENDon'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.
2:17:36ENCurrent 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.
2:03:56EN260 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.
2:25:42ENThe 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.
1:39:17ENAI 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.
2:12:31ENMost 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.
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