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Cognitive 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.
1:41:15ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 10, 2024PodcastIf Snail Experts Can't Agree, Nobody Gets to Be Sure About AI ConsciousnessHost Nathan LabenzPhilosopher Eric Schwitzgebel argues that every major theory of consciousness has to swallow bizarre bullets, and that confident claims about AI sentience are not epistemically justified.
2:09:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 26, 2024PodcastHe stayed up all night playing Civilization 6 with his mindHost Nathan LabenzDean W. Ball surveys EEG, ultrasound stimulation, and Neuralink with Nathan Labenz, and argues that merging with machines started decades ago.
1:25:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 9, 2024PodcastTwo-Headed Worms, Regenerated Legs, and a Sort That Learned to WaitHost Nathan LabenzTufts biologist Michael Levin tells Cognitive Revolution why anatomy is rewritable software, and why he stopped a paper that might have made AI more alive.
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Lex Fridman· Jan 27, 2021PodcastAn AI That Walks Among Us May Have to Know DepressionHost Lex FridmanIn a January 2021 AMA, Lex Fridman answers listeners on suffering machines, immigration, aliens, career pivots, and why happiness is a signal rather than a goal.
45:31ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2020PodcastYou Are Your Own Existence Proof: Karl Friston on Free Energy, Life, and Self-AwarenessHost Lex FridmanKarl Friston explains how the free energy principle reframes existence, life, planning, and self-awareness as inference problems.
25:06ENLex FridmanPodcastLiving Inside the Brain's Story: Joscha Bach on Simulation, Self and ConsciousnessHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Joscha Bach argues that consciousness, identity and even God are software-like patterns, and that we exist inside a narrative our brain generates.
22:59ENLex FridmanPodcastPenrose on Why Consciousness Can't Be a ComputationHost Lex FridmanRoger Penrose explains how a dissatisfaction with AI optimism, a tip about microtubules and a rethink of quantum mechanics led him to Orch OR.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastModels Are Grown, Not Built: What Anthropic's Interpretability Research Sees Inside ClaudeHost Lenny RachitskyAnthropic researcher Emmanuel Ameisen explains how studying a language model's intermediate computations reveals concepts, plans and surprising quirks, and why that matters for alignment.
11:26ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Cookie Your Brain Bakes: Joscha Bach on Happiness, Cells and the Meaning of GodHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip, Joscha Bach moves from why happiness is not the point to the cell as a cosmic probe and a naturalistic reading of God as civilization.