"The Cognitive Revolution"

Mechanistic Interpretability: Philosophy, Practice & Progress with Goodfire's Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath

In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, the host interviews Dan Balsam and Tom McGrath from Goodfire, a mechanistic interpretability startup. The discussion centers on the current state of mechanistic interpretability, highlighting the progress made in understanding neural networks and the challenges that remain i...

The Perfect Substrate for AGI, with Replit CEO Amjad Masad

The RAISE Act: Minimum Standards for Frontier AI Development, with NY Assembly Member Alex Bores

Gemini Robotics – AI for the Physical World, with Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao of Google DeepMind

In this episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan Labenz interviews Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao from Google DeepMind about their work on Gemini Robotics. They discuss the advancements in robotics, comparing its current state to the GPT-3/3.5 era in language models, and highlight the Gemini Robotics project,...

Titans: Neural Long-Term Memory for LLMs, with author Ali Behrouz

Luma Labs' Diffusion Revolution: from Dream Machine to Multimodal Worldsim - Amit Jain, Jiaming Song

OpenAI's Identity Crisis: History, Culture & Non-Profit Control with ex-employee Steven Adler

OpenAI's Identity Crisis: History, Culture & Non-Profit Control with ex-employee Steven Adler

AI Control: Using Untrusted Systems Safely with Buck Shlegeris of Redwood Research, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast

Blueprint for AI Armageddon: Josh Clymer Imagines AI Takeover, from the Audio Tokens Podcast

Fiverr Goes All-In on AI: Empowering Creators, Not Replacing Them, with Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr

Securing Superintelligence: National Security, Espionage & AI Control with Jeremie & Edouard Harris

Is o3 AGI? Zvi Mowshowitz on Early AI Takeoff, the Mechanize launch, Live Players, & Why p(doom) is Rising

AI News Crossover: A Candid Chat with Liron Shapira of Doom Debates

Helen Toner: OpenAI Reflections, Adaptation Buffers, and AI in Warfare

Is a US-China Thucydides Trap Unavoidable? With David C. Kang from the ChinaTalk Podcast

Google Agents Beat Human Doctors, Make Scientific Discoveries – With Vivek Natarajan and Anil Palepu

Scaling "Thinking": Gemini 2.5 Tech Lead Jack Rae on Reasoning, Long Context, & the Path to AGI

This episode explores the recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), particularly focusing on Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.5 Pro. The interview centers around the surprising effectiveness of reinforcement learning from correctness signals in improving reasoning capabilities, a phenomenon attributed to a culmin...

Reward Hacking by Reasoning Models & Loss of Control Scenarios w/ Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research, from FLI Podcast

Shortwave Rides the Tidal Wave: Inbox Agents, Hyper-Growth & Hiring AI Managers, with CEO Andrew Lee