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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 28, 2026PodcastThe Exam Papers Nobody AuditsHost Nathan LabenzFrontier labs buy reinforcement-learning environments from a cottage industry of small vendors, and almost nobody checks whether those tests match the real work.
2:13:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 26, 2026PodcastOne Chain of Thought, 100 Million Tokens: RL Is a Hell of a DrugHost Nathan LabenzApollo Research's Bronson Schoen on reward-seeking models, invented slang, and why chain-of-thought monitoring will not save us.
1:48:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 1, 2026PodcastThe reward jumped from 3 to 180. Every Hacker News title was a Google layoff.Host Nathan LabenzCoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt walks Nathan Labenz through GRPO, rubrics, RL environments, and why most reward hacks are easy to catch once you know to look.
1:18:46ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 16, 2026Podcast90 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.
1:49:53ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 5, 2026PodcastDon'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.
54:26ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 22, 2026PodcastTen Billion Active Parameters, and the Unsexy Work of Making Them Agent-ReadyHost Nathan LabenzMiniMax researcher Olive Song explains how M2 was trained with expert developers as reward models, interleaved thinking, and a perturbation pipeline that treats every scaffold change as the real generalization test.
1:04:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 25, 2025PodcastUseful AI Work Is Doubling Every Four Months. Schools Should Plan Accordingly.Host Nathan LabenzIn a keynote to K-12 educators, Cognitive Revolution host Nathan Labenz argued that task length, not chat quality, is the number that should reshape how schools think.
1:28:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 10, 2025PodcastDoctors code at 45%. The model beat them by 12 points — then 4,000 physicians had to try it once.Host Nathan LabenzAmbience Healthcare and Cleveland Clinic walk through the AI scribe that cut pajama time, climbed ICD-10 with reinforcement fine-tuning, and won 75% voluntary use.
38:48ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 14, 2025PodcastTask Length Doubles Every Few Months. Nathan Labenz Still Wants Humans in ChargeHost Nathan LabenzAt Imagine AI Live, the Cognitive Revolution host maps structured AI agents against autonomous agentic systems—and tells businesses to keep final control.
2:01:42ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 1, 2025PodcastHe 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.
1:30:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 2, 2025PodcastWhen o1 Started Losing at Chess, It Rewrote the Board FileHost Nathan LabenzJeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research on reward hacking by reasoning models, two paths to losing control of AI, and why honesty and relentless problem-solving pull in opposite directions.
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Sequoia Capital· Jul 16, 2024PodcastAlphaGo Combined Learning and Search. Language Models Only Did the First Half.Reflection AI's Misha Laskin tells Sequoia why prompted coding agents stall in the teens, and why the missing piece is still a ground-truth reward.
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Lex Fridman· Mar 19, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersMaybe people are rational under different assumptionsGuest Anca Dragan · Host Lex FridmanAnca Dragan talks with Lex Fridman about inverse reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, and why a written reward is evidence rather than law.