Cognitive Revolution Transcripts

Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics

Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard

Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI

Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%

AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen

Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models

1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering

AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha

The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test

AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More

Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy

Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research

AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)

Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!

AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF

Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn

Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life

Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath

Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving

Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal

Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post

Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything

Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi

Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi

AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security CEO Alexis Carlier

Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi

The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space

AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws

The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software

AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!

Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity

Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on Bringing AI to Data, Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG & More

AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis

Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast

Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show

The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS

AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2

AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley

Supintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates

Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski

China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk

Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks

AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast

What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit

Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour