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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.
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.
1:25:13ENA $500 Lamp Cut TB Transmission 90 Percent. Almost Nobody Buys OneHost Nathan LabenzAerolamp's Misha Gurevich and Vivian Belenky walk Patrick McKenzie through far-UVC at 222 nanometers: the lab science, the safety case, and why the bottleneck is awareness rather than physics.
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.
2:23:38ENDavidad Cut His p(doom) From the Seventies to Under 5% — and Named a Bodhisattva as the Alignment TargetHost Nathan LabenzThe former ARIA Safeguarded AI director tells Cognitive Revolution why boxing superintelligence is too late, why he thinks models are climbing a U-shaped wisdom curve, and why the remaining risk is a race you cannot monitor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1:18:40ENWhen 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.
3:14:49ENNothing 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.
2:04:27ENA 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.
1:14:05ENSullivan 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.
2:14:55ENFrom 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.
4:05:15ENThey could not agree whether Iran was building a bomb. They still wanted the same next move.Host Lex FridmanAfter the Iran-Israel ceasefire, Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz spend four hours on Lex Fridman arguing over enrichment math, a stolen archive, and whether bombing Fordo makes a weapon more likely or less.
2:02:27ENShe 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.
1:44:11EN100 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.
2:01:42ENHe 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.
2:10:07ENA $30,000 Operation Could Knock a $10 Billion Superintelligence Data Center Offline for a YearHost Nathan LabenzGladstone AI’s Jeremy and Edouard Harris inventory what an American Manhattan Project for superintelligence would actually have to secure — and what it would cost in concrete, supply chains, and civil liberties.
3:08:35ENo3 isn't AGI. Zvi Mowshowitz still put p(doom) at 70 percentHost Nathan LabenzOn his ninth visit to The Cognitive Revolution, Zvi Mowshowitz argues that OpenAI's o3 is a tool-use leap rather than AGI, then explains why he raised the probability of AI catastrophe anyway.
2:27:59ENA 10-to-90% P(doom) Host Gets Asked If His Show Sounds Like ItHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Liron Shapira sit on the same side of the table and test a week of AI news against the question of how likely extinction actually is.
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