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

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

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.

Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz · Turpentine

369 episodesEN

Show overview

"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 369 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 610 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 19m and 1h 57m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 63 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Turpentine.

Episodes
369
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
1h 35m
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

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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Aug 16, 20261h 25m

Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses

Aug 10, 20262h 6m

Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent

Aug 8, 20261h 57m

Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...

Aug 5, 20262h 57m

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

Aug 2, 20262h 17m

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

Jul 30, 20261h 44m

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

Jul 27, 20262h 24m

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

Jul 12, 20262h 23m

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

Jul 9, 20262h 7m

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

Jul 4, 20261h 47m

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

Jul 1, 20261h 29m

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

Jun 27, 20261h 56m

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

Jun 23, 20262h 29m

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

Jun 21, 20262h 14m

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

Jun 20, 20262h 39m

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

Jun 17, 20261h 46m

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

Jun 13, 20261h 44m