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"The Cognitive Revolution" — 382 episodes · page 2 of 4
In-AI Advertising: Better Answers for Users, Big Questions for Society, with ZeroClick's Ryan Hudson
Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery
Untangling Neural Network Mechanisms: Goodfire's Lee Sharkey on Parameter-based Interpretability
What if Humans Weaponize Superintelligence, w/ Tom Davidson, from Future of Life Institute Podcast
The AI Whistleblower Initiative: Supporting AGI Insiders When It Matters Most, w/ founder Karl Koch
Autonomous Organizations: Vending Bench & Beyond, w/ Lukas Petersson & Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
Dean W. Ball on America's AI Action Plan & 4 Months at the White House
Jake Sullivan on Navigating AI Uncertainty and Managing Competition with China
Sovereign AI: Geopolitical Strategy & Industrial Policy for Countries 3-193, with Anjney Midha, a16z
The Revolution in Services: General Catalyst's AI Rollup Strategy, with Marc Bhargava
Liability for AI Harms: How Ancient Law Can Govern Frontier Technology Risk, with Prof Gabriel Weil
Private Governance: Creating a Market in AI Regulation, with Dr. Gillian Hadfield & Andrew Freedman
The Dawn of Dynamic AI: RFT Comes Online, w/ Predibase CEO Dev Rishi, from Inference by Turing Post
Cracking the Medical Code: Why Cleveland Clinic Doctors Love Their Ambience Healthcare AI Scribe
The Data Factory: Inside the $100B Race for Post-Training Supremacy, with Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma
Cheat on Everything: Cluely's Vision for Always-On AI Assistance
The AI Village: Previewing the Giga-Agent Future with Adam Binksmith, Founder of AI Digest
402 Payment Required: a New Way for AI Agents to Pay, with Nemil Dalal, Dev Platform Lead @ Coinbase
2-Sigma in 2 Hours: How Alpha Schools are Using AI to Revolutionize Education
Living Lindy: a No-BS Conversation on AI Agents with Flo Crivello
Embryology of AI: How Training Data Shapes AI Development w/ Timaeus' Jesse Hoogland & Daniel Murfet
AI Scouting Report: AI Agents -vs- Agentic AI, from Imagine AI Live
The Decade of May 15-22, 2025: Google's 50X AI Growth & Transformation with Logan Kilpatrick
a16z on Protecting Little Tech: The Techno-Optimist AI Policy Agenda with Matt Perault, Head of AI Policy
Don't Make Mirror Life: Synthetic Biologist Kate Adamala on Risks & Responsibility
What did Google's AI Co-Scientist "Discover"? The Human Scientists' POV, from the Podovirus podcast
Mechanistic Interpretability: Philosophy, Practice & Progress with Goodfire's Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
The Perfect Substrate for AGI, with Replit CEO Amjad Masad
The RAISE Act: Minimum Standards for Frontier AI Development, with NY Assembly Member Alex Bores
Gemini Robotics – AI for the Physical World, with Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao of Google DeepMind
Titans: Neural Long-Term Memory for LLMs, with author Ali Behrouz
Luma Labs' Diffusion Revolution: from Dream Machine to Multimodal Worldsim - Amit Jain, Jiaming Song
OpenAI's Identity Crisis: History, Culture & Non-Profit Control with ex-employee Steven Adler
AI Control: Using Untrusted Systems Safely with Buck Shlegeris of Redwood Research, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
Blueprint for AI Armageddon: Josh Clymer Imagines AI Takeover, from the Audio Tokens Podcast
Fiverr Goes All-In on AI: Empowering Creators, Not Replacing Them, with Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr
Securing Superintelligence: National Security, Espionage & AI Control with Jeremie & Edouard Harris
Is OpenAI's o3 AGI? Zvi Mowshowitz on Early AI Takeoff, the Mechanize launch, Live Players, & Why p(doom) is Rising
AI News Crossover: A Candid Chat with Liron Shapira of Doom Debates
Helen Toner: OpenAI Reflections, Adaptation Buffers, and AI in Warfare
Is a US-China Thucydides Trap Unavoidable? With David C. Kang from the ChinaTalk Podcast
New in Nature: Google Agents Beat Human Doctors, Make Scientific Discoveries – With Vivek Natarajan and Anil Palepu
Scaling "Thinking": Gemini 2.5 Tech Lead Jack Rae on Reasoning, Long Context, & the Path to AGI
Reward Hacking by Reasoning Models & Loss of Control Scenarios w/ Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research, from FLI Podcast
Shortwave Rides the Tidal Wave: Inbox Agents, Hyper-Growth & Hiring AI Managers, with CEO Andrew Lee
Code Context is King: Augment’s AI Assistant for Professional Software Engineers, with Guy Gur-Ari
Unlocking Cells' Secrets: Diffusion, Deconvolution, & Discovery with Siyu He, author of Squidiff & CORAL
a16z on AI Voices: Call Centers, Coaches, and Companions with Olivia Moore & Anish Acharya
Agency over AI? Allan Dafoe on Technological Determinism & DeepMind's Safety Plans, from 80000 Hours
China's Tech Tightrope: Power, Regulation, and the AI Race with Angela Zhang
Historic AI Developments & the Emerging Shape of Superintelligence, from the Consistently Candid Podcast
Frontier Models for Frontier Science with Professor Derya Unutmaz, Immunologist & ChatGPT Pro Grantee
US-China Relations: History, Culture, and AI Competition, with Noah Smith, from Econ 102
The Adversarial Mind: Defeating AI Defenses with Nicholas Carlini of Google DeepMind
New Jersey’s AI Moonshot: Governor Phil Murphy on Partnerships, Progress, and Preparedness
Inference Scaling, Alignment Faking, Deal Making? Frontier Research with Ryan Greenblatt of Redwood Research
An Application-Free Future? Speaking Directly to Data with illumex CEO Inna Tokarev Sela
Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes
Software Supernova: Lovable's "Superhuman Full Stack Engineer" to Transform Idea to App in Seconds
Software Supernova: Bolt.new - The AI Web App Developer In Your Browser
Gemini's Next Frontier: 2.0 Flash, Flash Lite Strategy & Real-Time APIs with Logan K from Google Deepmind
Distributed Training, Decentralized AI: Prime Intellect's Master Plan to Make AI Too Cheap to Meter
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, on Box AI, Enterprise Enthusiasm, and the Evolution of SaaS
Emergency Pod: Reinforcement Learning Works! Reflecting on Chinese Reasoning Models DeepSeek-R1 and Kimi k1.5
Material Progress: Developing AI's Scientific Intuition, with Orbital Materials' Jonathan Godwin & Tim Duignan
Dodging Latent Space Detectors: Obfuscated Activation Attacks with Luke, Erik, and Scott.
Gene Hunting with o1-pro: Reasoning about Rare Diseases with ChatGPT Pro Grantee Dr. Catherine Brownstein
AI AMA – Part 2: AI Utopia, Consciousness, and the Future of Work
AI AMA – Part 1: OpenAI’s o3, Deliberative Alignment, and AI Surprises of 2024
Teaching AI to See: A Technical Deep-Dive on Vision Language Models with Will Hardman of Veratai
roon's Heroic Duty: Will "the Good Guys" Build AGI First? (from Doom Debates)
Emad Mostaque on the Intelligent Internet and Universal Basic AI
Can AIs do AI R&D? Reviewing REBench Results with Neev Parikh of METR
Breakthroughs in AI for Biology: AI Lab Groups & Protein Model Interpretability with Prof James Zou
Scouting Frontiers in AI for Biology: Dynamics, Diffusion, and Design, with Amelie Schreiber
Building Government's Largest Civilian AI Team with DHS AI Corps' Director, Michael Boyce
Emergency Pod: o1 Schemes Against Users, with Alexander Meinke from Apollo Research
Automating Scientific Discovery, with Andrew White, Head of Science at Future House
The Evolution of AI Agents: Lessons from 2024, with MultiOn CEO Div Garg
Beyond Preference Alignment: Teaching AIs to Play Roles & Respect Norms, with Tan Zhi Xuan
Is an AI Arms Race Inevitable? with Robert Wright of Nonzero Newsletter & Podcast
Designing the Future: Inside Canva's AI Strategy with John Milinovich, GenAI Product Lead at Canva
Everything You Wanted to Know About LLM Post-Training, with Nathan Lambert of Allen Institute for AI
Zvi’s POV: Ilya’s SSI, OpenAI’s o1, Claude Computer Use, Trump’s election, and more
AGI Lab Transparency Requirements & Whistleblower Protections, with Dean W. Ball & Daniel Kokotajlo
AI Under Trump? The Stakes of 2024 w/ Joshua Steinman [Pt 2 of 2]
The Case for Trump and the Future of AI – Part 1, with Samuel Hammond, Senior Economist, Foundation of American Innovation
Breaking: Gemini's Major Update - Search, JSON & Code Features Revealed by Google PMs
Training Zamba: A Hybrid Model Master Class with Zyphra's Quentin Anthony
Mind Hacked by AI: A Cautionary Tale, From a LessWrong User's Confession
Can AIs Generate Novel Research Ideas? with lead author Chenglei Si
GELU, MMLU, & X-Risk Defense in Depth, with the Great Dan Hendrycks
Leading Indicators of AI Danger: Owain Evans on Situational Awareness & Out-of-Context Reasoning, from The Inside View
Convergent Evolution: The Co-Revolution of AI & Biology with Professor Michael Levin & Staff Scientist Leo Pio Lopez
Runway's Video Revolution: Empowering Creators with General World Models, with CTO Anastasis Germanidis
Biologically Inspired AI Alignment & Neglected Approaches to AI Safety, with Judd Rosenblatt and Mike Vaiana of AE Studio
Automating Software Engineering: Genie Tops SWE-Bench, w/ Alistair Pullen, from Latent.Space podcast
Zapier's AI Revolution: From No-Code Pioneer to LLM Knowledge Worker
Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy, with Nick Joseph, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
The Evolution Revolution: Scouting Frontiers in AI for Biology with Brian Hie