"The Cognitive Revolution"

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

This podcast interviews Professor Derya Unutmaz about his use of AI, specifically large language models like ChatGPT and others, to advance his biomedical research on aging and cancer immunotherapies. The interview covers his career, his early adoption of AI, and his current methods for leveraging AI in hypothesis gen...

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

This podcast interviews Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO of Illumex, about her company's approach to enterprise data analysis. The discussion covers Illumex's unique methodology of using metadata to create a "canonical" data model for different industries, automating the mapping of a company's data onto this model, and enabling...

Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes

This podcast interviews two researchers who studied cooperation among different Large Language Models (LLMs) in a simulated society using a "donor game" experiment. The researchers found significant differences in cooperation levels between LLMs like Claude 3.5 (high cooperation, improving over time), Gemini 1.5 (low ...

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

This podcast interviews Eric Simons, CEO of StackBlitz, about Bolt, an AI-powered full-stack web application builder. The conversation covers Bolt's rapid growth (reaching $20 million ARR in eight weeks), its unique browser-native technology, and its target users (developers and non-technical product managers). Simons...

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

This episode explores the transformative potential of AI in enterprise software, contrasting the initial skepticism surrounding cloud adoption with the current excitement and eagerness to deploy AI solutions across various industries. Against the backdrop of enterprises seeking practical AI use cases, Box is developing...

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