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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 21, 2026PodcastA 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.
2:38:44ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 20, 2026PodcastTwenty-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.
1:39:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 29, 2026PodcastAI 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.
1:43:19ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 19, 2025PodcastA $100 Million Super PAC Named Him Public Enemy Number One. Donations Went Up.Host Nathan LabenzIn the second half of Cognitive Revolution’s year-end live show, Assemblymember Alex Bores, former White House adviser Dean Ball, and forecaster Peter Wildeford argue over state AI laws, chip sales to China, and what 2026 will actually feel like.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 5, 2025PodcastChina's AI Labs Went From 15 to Six. The Compute Gap Is 15-to-1.Host Jacob EffronJordan Schneider tells Unsupervised Learning that Chinese models were a private-capital story, that Beijing still thinks in hardware, and that the West's real edge is chips it can serve — not a state master plan.
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.
1:30:17ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 25, 2025PodcastHe Co-Wrote the Transformer Paper. Now He Wants You to Own Your AI.Host Nathan LabenzNEAR founder Illia Polosukhin maps a future of personal software, agent-run markets, and AI delegates that vote without a private agenda.
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.
1:51:24ENCognitive 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.
3:17:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 13, 2025PodcastTen Thousand Comments and 76 Spare Gigawatts: Four Months Writing America's AI Action PlanHost Nathan LabenzDean W. Ball spent four months as the White House's senior AI adviser, then left as the Action Plan landed — and explains how a to-do list got written inside a building that cannot run ChatGPT.
1:14:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 9, 2025PodcastSullivan 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.
2:14:55ENCognitive 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.
1:00:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 9, 2025PodcastThe Phrase That Alarms a16z’s AI Policy Chief: “It Only Covers a Handful of Companies”Host Nathan LabenzMatt Perault argues that AI rules should target harmful use, not the science of building models, and that “modest” thresholds can lock in an oligopoly.
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.
1:30:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 12, 2025PodcastAnt's $320 Billion IPO Was Stopped at the Eleventh Hour: Angela Zhang on China's Tech TightropeHost Nathan LabenzA USC law professor walks through the dynamic pyramid that governs Chinese tech, from Didi's listing to DeepSeek's price war, and why she thinks the United States is starting to look more like China.
1:08:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 1, 2025PodcastChip Controls Are Meant to Buy Ten Years, Not Win the AI RaceHost Nathan LabenzEconomist Noah Smith tells Nathan Labenz that U.S. export controls are a piece of conventional deterrence against China — not a plan to kneecap DeepSeek.
1:24:57ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Jan 21, 2025PodcastA 50,000-GPU cap and a 1,700-chip loopholeHost Jacob EffronSemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel walks through the AI diffusion rule, China’s compute squeeze, and how xAI stood up a 100,000-GPU cluster in a closed Memphis appliance factory.
1:59:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 12, 2024PodcastHe Walked Away From Millions in OpenAI Equity — Then Wrote Four Rules for AGI LabsHost Nathan LabenzDaniel Kokotajlo and Dean W. Ball disagree on AI regulation, yet jointly argue that frontier labs need capability disclosures, public model specs, safety cases, and whistleblower protections.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 3, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFewer Than 3% of Deals Get Investigated. Selling to the Monopolist Is What Triggers the FTC.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilChair Lina Khan tells No Priors how merger review actually works in AI markets, why open-weight models matter, and why the agency banned most non-competes.
1:23:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 4, 2024PodcastA Training Run Is a Particle Collider—and the China Contest Is a Fifty-Year RaceHost Nathan LabenzSamo Burja tells Nathan Labenz why ChatGPT's virality may have slowed AI science, and why Washington should treat Beijing as an economic rival rather than a military one.
1:40:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 24, 2024PodcastIf I Were Governor, I Would Sign: California's Last Debate Over SB 1047Host Nathan LabenzThree guests return to unpack the rewritten frontier-AI bill as OpenAI opposes it, Anthropic calls it workable, and a final vote looms in Sacramento.
1:43:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 17, 2024PodcastThey want AI safety to quote failure odds the way civil engineers quote a bridgeHost Nathan LabenzNora Ammann and Ben Goldhaber walk Nathan Labenz through Guaranteed Safe AI: world models, safety specs, verifiers, and why a chatbot’s good character is the wrong type for a dam.
1:48:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 28, 2024PodcastAGI Has Been a Moving Goalpost for Seventy YearsHost Nathan Labenza16z’s Martin Casado and host Nathan Labenz spend two hours arguing whether today’s models will become general knowledge workers, and whether that debate should drive AI regulation.Load moreShowing 24 of 45