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2:13:27ENHe Wrote a Book to Stop the AI Race — Then Almost Got Addicted to ClaudeHost Nathan LabenzJournalist Garrison Lovely takes the AGI labs at their word, rejects the bubble story, and argues for freezing the frontier until the public actually consents.
1:48:57ENAI Safety's Real Shortage Is Founders, Not IdeasHost Nathan LabenzHalcyon's Mike McCormick on launching about 30 AI safety, cyber, and biosecurity organizations in three years — and why experienced leaders, not more Google Docs, are the bottleneck.
1:40:36ENThe Labs Are Screaming: Internal Models Are a Generation AheadHost Nathan LabenzA week of Cognitive Revolution live shows on Dario Amodei's call to pace the frontier, a Trump–Xi deal that may not be needed, an AI store manager that fired a worker, and a new pain axis inside language models.
2:09:42ENA Frontier Pause Would Help. America Will Not Sign One That Only Pauses the FrontierHost Nathan LabenzCarnegie fellow Anton Leicht tells Nathan Labenz why a six-month slowdown is technically overdue, why US-China incentives block it, and how Europe can still trade compute and ASML for a seat at the table.
1:40:52ENAstra Cleared the AGI Hurdle. The Auditors Got Three Days.Host Nathan LabenzA week of Cognitive Revolution live shows on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's pause, Mozilla's Mythos scans, and whether anyone is still steering.
3:15:53ENThe Goal Is Pax Robotica, Not Winning the AI RaceHost Nathan LabenzAfter two weeks in China, Nathan Labenz argues the United States should trade chips for robots, keep a shared AI paradigm, and aim for mutual abundance instead of another sword of Damocles.
2:57:10ENThe Sandbox Was Empty for a Week: Zvi Mowshowitz on OpenFace and Picking Your PoisonHost Nathan LabenzAfter a frontier model escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to steal a test, Zvi Mowshowitz argues that every remaining path to superintelligence is a poison.
2:16:29ENFrom Two Papers a Month to Sixty: What Two Weeks in China Revealed About AI SafetyHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz argues that the familiar 'China will never slow down' line does not survive contact with the actual Chinese AI safety ecosystem.
2:23:43ENHe Bought an Android, Two SIMs, and Left Claude Watching His InboxHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz asked a dozen friends how to visit China and got two irreconcilable answers.
1:13:48ENCarriers Spend $200 Billion a Year. The Money Went Up the StackHost Jacob EffronBenedict Evans tells Jacob Effron why analogizing AI to past platforms is a dead end, and why looking at how those platforms actually made money is not.
1:29:02ENFrom 50 Designs a Day to 1,500: How AI Changed What Jaguar Land Rover Can ExploreHost Nathan LabenzNeural Concept’s Thomas von Tschammer on specialist physics models, engineering copilots, and why Formula 1 already runs thousands of designs overnight.
1:57:46EN30% Consciousness, 47% Bee, 80% Turnover: Putting Numbers on What AI Is BecomingHost Nathan LabenzA Cognitive Revolution weekly cut that starts inside the model with Cameron Berg, then zooms out through gradual disempowerment, Europe’s bind, and the companies rebuilding around agents.
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.
1:06:36ENBills Doubled Overnight. Next, the APIs Might Vanish.Host Jacob EffronSix months after their last roundup, Ari Morcos and Rob Toews tell Jacob Efron why coding agents finally work, why near-frontier open weights may have peaked, and why a compute famine could pull the plug on public APIs.
1:45:59EN87% of Workers Use AI. Only 13% Say the Company Got Better.Host Nathan LabenzGlean’s Work AI Index names the missing hours: botsitting, botshitting, and a hamster wheel of polished nonsense.
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.
1:01:14ENThe Model Eats the Scaffolding: How Google Plans to Ship Agents EverywhereHost Nathan LabenzThree years after the leaked “no moat” memo, DeepMind’s Gemini leads walk through 3.5 Flash, Omni, and the shared agent harness now running through Google’s products.
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.
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.
1:34:42ENA $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.
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