
Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"
The Cognitive Revolution is a podcast about AI where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock over the next decades. If you love The Cognitive Revolution, head over to Moment of Zen (https://www.youtube.com/@MomentofZenPodcast) for weekly episodes from Erik Torenberg, Dan Romero, Antonio Garcia Martinez, and a revolving slate of guests talking tech, business, and AI.
Episodes


Sprinting Through the AI Marathon – Day 2

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
Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a superior alternative to supervised fine-tuning for large language models by optimizing within existing latent pathways rather than overwriting them. Algorithms like GRPO avoid catastrophic forgetting by targeting critical decision points in reasoning traces, yielding higher perfor...

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

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

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

Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools
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