Erik Torenberg joins to debate if AI progress is stalling, addressing arguments from Cal Newport. The episode counters this, highlighting significant qualitative advances in AI and arguing for continued rapid progress in the coming years.| The Cognitive Revolution
Illia Polosukhin discusses AI's societal and economic implications, envisioning a future with a unified intelligence layer, AI agents enabling direct markets, and new governance models. He explores how AI will reshape daily life and global governance.| The Cognitive Revolution
Andrew Lee, CEO of Tasklet.ai, discusses his AI agent automation platform that uses conversational, long-lived agents to replace traditional workflow tools. He explains how betting on improving model capabilities enables flexible automation while navigating reliability and cost challenges.| The Cognitive Revolution
Brian Tse, CEO of Concordia AI, discusses China's pragmatic approach to AI development, safety, and governance. The conversation covers regulations, cooperation pathways, and areas of overlap with the U.S., alongside topics like chips, Huawei, and embodied AI.| The Cognitive Revolution
MIT Prof. Jim Collins discusses his AI project that discovered new antibiotics effective against resistant strains. He explains how their AI process efficiently screens chemical spaces, offering a path to tackle antibiotic resistance.| The Cognitive Revolution
Today Johan Falk, author, speaker, and AI analyst from Stockholm, Sweden, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his work reimagining education for the AI era, exploring why teaching students to use AI responsibly is now urgent, how traditional grades and standardized tests may become obsolete,| The Cognitive Revolution
Eoghan McCabe and Fergal Reid of Intercom discuss developing their AI customer service agent Fin, detailing how they achieved a 65% resolution rate through custom model training and introduced outcome-based pricing for customer support.| The Cognitive Revolution
This special crosspost features a16z General Partner Anjney Midha in conversation with Periodic Labs co-founders Liam Fedus (OpenAI, ChatGPT) and Ekin Doğuş Çubuk (Google DeepMind), who recently secured a $300M investment. --- Watch Episode Here --- Read Episode Description This special crosspost features a16z General Partner Anjney Midha| The Cognitive Revolution
Today, Emad Mostaque, founder of Intelligent Internet, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his book "The Last Economy" and his radical "intelligence theory" framework for reimagining economics in the AI age, exploring concepts like the abundance trap, metabolic rift, and his proposed cryptocurrency-funded system of collectively-owned AI infrastructure to prevent| The Cognitive Revolution
Today, Emily Sands, head of data and AI at Stripe, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss how the company built a payments foundation model that processes tens of billions of transactions into dense embeddings, exploring the technical architecture behind fraud detection improvements and the modular approach that enables rapid deployment| The Cognitive Revolution
Adam Gleave, CEO of FAR. --- Watch Episode Here --- Read Episode Description Adam Gleave, CEO of FAR.AI, offers a cautiously optimistic perspective on navigating the path to Transformative AI safely, advocating for a "defense-in-depth" approach. He discusses potential "post-AGI equilibria," key capability thresholds, and why fully| The Cognitive Revolution
Today Marius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss their collaboration with OpenAI using "deliberative alignment" to reduce AI scheming behavior by 30x, exploring the safety challenges and concerning findings about models' growing situational awareness and increasingly cryptic reasoning patterns that emerge when frontier| The Cognitive Revolution
Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and founder of NEAR, unveils his ambitious vision for user-owned, privacy-preserving AI. --- Watch Episode Here --- Read Episode Description Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and founder of NEAR,| The Cognitive Revolution
Today Joe Hudson, founder of Art of Accomplishment and coach to executives at major AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss the psychological patterns he observes among AI researchers and leaders, exploring what's missing beyond pure intelligence in current AI systems and arguing for supportive| The Cognitive Revolution
Today, Zvi Mowshowitz returns to The Cognitive Revolution to discuss how recent AI developments like GPT-5 and IMO gold medals have led to modestly extended timelines despite being on-trend, while policy missteps around chip exports to China and alignment challenges from reinforcement learning have increased risk assessments, covering everything from| The Cognitive Revolution
Today Lee Sharkey of Goodfire joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his research on parameter decomposition methods that break down neural networks into interpretable computational components, exploring how his team's "stochastic parameter decomposition" approach addresses the limitations of sparse autoencoders and offers new pathways for understanding, monitoring, and potentially steering| The Cognitive Revolution
Today Dean W. Ball, former White House AI policy advisor joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his role in crafting the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, his reasons for leaving government, and his perspectives on AI policy, US-China competition, and the future of AI regulation and adoption. Watch Episode Here| The Cognitive Revolution
Today Jake Sullivan, the U.S. National Security Advisor from 2021-2025 joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss AI as a critical national security issue. Watch Episode Here Read Episode Description Today Jake Sullivan, the U.S. National Security Advisor from 2021-2025 joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss AI as a| The Cognitive Revolution
Watch Episode Episode Description Dr. Gillian Hadfield from Johns Hopkins University and Andrew Freedman from Fathom discuss their innovative proposal to govern AI through private regulatory markets, which has been introduced as California's SB 813. Their system would separate democratic goal-setting from technical rule-making by having government bodies articulate safety| The Cognitive Revolution
This episode explores the groundbreaking advancements in AGI from recent releases of two Chinese reasoning models: DeepSeek's R1 and Moonshot AI's Kimmy. Watch Episode Here Read Episode Description This episode explores the groundbreaking advancements in AGI from recent releases of two Chinese reasoning models: DeepSeek's R1 and Moonshot AI's Kimmy.| The Cognitive Revolution
Nathan explores Mamba, a new state space model, and its impact on AI.| The Cognitive Revolution
