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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

355 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 355 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 580 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 18m and 1h 55m — 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 1 weeks ago, with 49 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Turpentine.

Episodes
355
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
1h 33m
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

Latest Episodes

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

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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

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

Jun 10, 20261h 46m

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

Jun 6, 20261h 22m

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

Jun 3, 20263h 0m

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

May 30, 20262h 32m

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

May 26, 20261h 42m

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

May 24, 20262h 13m

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

May 20, 202659 min

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

May 15, 20261h 33m

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

May 9, 20261h 27m

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

May 6, 20261h 23m

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

May 1, 20261h 46m

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

Apr 26, 20262h 38m

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

Apr 23, 20263h 33m

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

Apr 19, 20262h 9m