The Cognitive Revolution

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

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Every guest on The Cognitive Revolution

278 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Sander Schulhoff
Delving into The Prompt Report, with Sander Schulhoff of LearnPrompting.org · 2 episodes

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Sarah Guo
E21: VC Insights on Investing in Artificial Intelligence with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil of No Priors Podcast · May 2023

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Victor Lazarte

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Andrew Mason
Underlord: Descript’s AI Video Editor, with CEO Andrew Mason · Aug 2024

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Antonio García-Martinez

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Cory Booker

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Helen Toner
Helen Toner: OpenAI Reflections, Adaptation Buffers, and AI in Warfare · Apr 2025

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Isaac Kohane
E24: The AI Revolution in Medicine with Dr. Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School · May 2023

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Joshua Browder
E34: The Consumer Rights Revolution with Joshua Browder of DoNotPay · Jun 2023

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Siqi Chen
Building an Intelligent Business OS, with Runway CEO Siqi Chen · Jul 2024

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Azeem Azhar
Looking Up the AI Exponential with Azeem Azhar of the Exponential View · Feb 2024

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Dean Ball
Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy · 4 episodes

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Gillian Hadfield
Private Governance: Creating a Market in AI Regulation, with Dr. Gillian Hadfield & Andrew Freedman · Jul 2025

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Zvi Mowshowitz
Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ... · 7 episodes

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Eric Schwitzgebel
AI Consciousness? Exploring the Possibility with Prof. Eric Schwitzgebel · Aug 2024

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Jake Sullivan
Jake Sullivan on Navigating AI Uncertainty and Managing Competition with China · Aug 2025

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Kate Adamala
Don't Make Mirror Life: Synthetic Biologist Kate Adamala on Risks & Responsibility · Jun 2025

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Alan Cowen
Hume CEO Alan Cowen on Creating Emotionally Aware AI · Dec 2023

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Cecilia Ziniti
NYTimes vs OpenAI: Generative AI and the Law with Cecilia Ziniti, Founder and CEO of GC AI · Jan 2024

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John Hayes
OpenAI Invests $5M Into the Self-Driving Race with John Hayes, Cofounder of Ghost Autonomy · Nov 2023

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Mike Knoop
The ARC Prize: Efficiency, Intuition, and AGI, with Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier · Jul 2024

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Ramin Hasani
Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models · Jul 2026

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Albert Gu
The State Space Model Revolution, with Albert Gu · Jul 2024

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Dan Hendrycks
GELU, MMLU, & X-Risk Defense in Depth, with the Great Dan Hendrycks · Oct 2024

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Derya Unutmaz
Frontier Models for Frontier Science with Professor Derya Unutmaz, Immunologist & ChatGPT Pro Grantee · Mar 2025

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Illia Polosukhin
A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR · 2 episodes

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Jaan Tallinn
E16: Pausing the AI Revolution? With Technologist Jaan Tallinn · Apr 2023

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Josh Albrecht
Imbue CTO Josh Albrecht on Creating AI Agents for Reasoning, Reliability, and Robustness · Dec 2023

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Joshua Xu
AI Avatars & the Future of Video, with HeyGen CEO Joshua Xu and Benchmark's Victor Lazarte · Aug 2024

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Karan Singhal
Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal · Feb 2026

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Liam Fedus
Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z) · Oct 2025

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Matt Perault
a16z on Protecting Little Tech: The Techno-Optimist AI Policy Agenda with Matt Perault, Head of AI Policy · Jun 2025

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Olivia Moore
a16z on AI Voices: Call Centers, Coaches, and Companions with Olivia Moore & Anish Acharya · Mar 2025

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Suhail Doshi
The Pixel Revolution Part 2 with Suhail Doshi, Founder of Playground AI · 2 episodes

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Will Bryk
The Example Engine: How Exa Is Creating the AI Librarian for the Web with Will Bryk, CEO of Exa · Mar 2024

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Abhi Mahajan
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi · Feb 2026

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Abhi Venigalla
E36: Your Model, Your Weights with MosaicML's Abhi Venigalla and Jonathan Frankle · Jun 2023

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Adam Binksmith
The AI Village: Previewing the Giga-Agent Future with Adam Binksmith, Founder of AI Digest · Jul 2025

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Adam Gleave
Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard · 3 episodes

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Adam Majmudar
TinyGPU, Massive Learning, with Adam Majmudar · May 2024

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