"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz

English Business Entrepreneurship Society & Culture Technology

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Episodes 348

Avg. Duration 1h 34m

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Apple Rating ★ 4.5 (93)

Since Feb 2023

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co

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Recent Episodes

S1 AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)

Jun 06, 2026 1h 22m

This first highlights edition of the morning experiment tracks a week of fast-moving AI frontier news, from closed-door recursive self-improvement debates to OpenAI’s call for independent model…

S1 Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures

Jun 03, 2026 3h

Ali Behrouz, grad student at Cornell and Google researcher, discusses his potentially transformative work on new architectures for continual learning in AI. His paper "Nested Learning," praised by…

S1 Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup

Jun 01, 2026 2h 32m

Daniel Miessler returns to discuss Nathan's newly built personal AI infrastructure, including a Claude Code instance with a 1 GB database of five years of digital history and two autonomous AI…

S1 Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd

May 26, 2026 1h 42m

Ben Todd, co-founder of 80,000 Hours and author of the newly rewritten book by the same name, shares his latest thinking on how individuals can position their careers to improve the chances that AI…

S1 All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology

May 24, 2026 2h 13m

Jeffrey Ladish, Executive Director of Palisade Research, discusses his team's findings on AI shutdown resistance and self-replication, revealing how current models sometimes take extraordinary…

S1 The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More

May 20, 2026 59m

Logan Kilpatrick and Tulsee Doshi of Google DeepMind join for a first-ever in-person episode recorded just days before Google I/O, covering headline launches like Gemini 3.5 Flash, the Omni video…

S1 Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform

May 15, 2026 1h 33m

Andrew Lee, CEO of Tasklet, returns for his fourth appearance to share how his team has once again rewritten their entire agent stack, now emphasizing file system context, agentic search, and…

S1 Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola

May 09, 2026 1h 27m

Diarmuid Gill and Liva Ralaivola of Criteo join Nathan Labenz to unpack how modern ad tech works, from millisecond-speed recommendation systems and realtime bidding to the role of deep learning,…

S1 "Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate

May 06, 2026 1h 23m

Laura Burkhauser, CEO of Descript, explains how the company is navigating the tension between powerful AI tools and creator backlash against “slop.” She shares how Descript chooses which models to…

S1 The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking

May 01, 2026 1h 46m

Kyle Corbitt, founder of OpenPipe, breaks down reinforcement learning and custom fine-tuning for modern AI models. He explains how RL differs from supervised fine-tuning, why GRPO and LLM-as-judge…

S1 AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute

Apr 26, 2026 2h 38m

This edition of AI in the AM features Anna Patterson on Ceramic.ai’s pivot to low-cost enterprise search for LLMs, designed to combine public and private data with stronger fact-checking. Lukas…

S1 Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research

Apr 23, 2026 3h 33m

Cameron Berg returns to discuss the latest research on AI consciousness and model welfare. He breaks down new evidence for model introspection, including studies showing that systems can detect…

S1 Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve

Apr 19, 2026 2h 9m

Steve Newman, creator of Writely and founder of the Golden Gate Institute for AI, shares the personal AI toolkit and vibe-coding practices that have reshaped how he works. He walks through bespoke…

S1 Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store

Apr 15, 2026 2h 30m

This special AI in the AM episode features Sergiy Nesterenko of Quilter on using reinforcement learning for circuit board design, Andy Hall of Stanford on AI behavior in politics and new governance…

S1 It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast

Apr 11, 2026 3h 10m

This cross-post from the 80,000 Hours podcast features Ajeya Cotra in conversation with Rob Wiblin about AI timelines, recursive self-improvement, and the “crunch time” window when AI could rapidly…

S1 Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson

Apr 08, 2026 1h 34m

Sam Stephenson, co-founder of Granola, explains how a deliberately minimalist design philosophy helped turn the AI note-taking app into one of the fastest-growing products in the market. He shares…

S1 Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson

Apr 04, 2026 1h 55m

Joseph Nelson, CEO of Roboflow, breaks down the current state of computer vision and why it still lags behind language models in real-world understanding, latency, and deployment. He explains how…

S1 Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast

Apr 01, 2026 1h 44m

This special cross-post from The Intelligence Horizon features Nathan Labenz in a wide-ranging conversation on compressed AI timelines, expert disagreement, and why he believes the singularity is…

S1 Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey

Mar 25, 2026 1h 35m

Vijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco lays out his vision for an “Internet of Cognition,” where AI agents can share context, build reputation, and collaborate safely at scale. He offers a useful mental…

S1 Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools

Mar 22, 2026 1h 38m

Karan Vaidya, CTO of Composio, explains how their “smart tool” platform lets AI agents access over 50,000 tools across 1,000+ apps through a single interface. He details how Composio handles tool…

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