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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   Adam Wenchel

   The Future of AI Security with Adam Wenchel, CEO of Arthur.ai · Sep 2023

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   Aidan Ewart
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   Alex Albert

   Claude Interpreter: Taking Safe AI to Market with Alex Albert of Anthropic · 2 episodes

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   Alex Bores

   The RAISE Act: Minimum Standards for Frontier AI Development, with NY Assembly Member Alex Bores · May 2025

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   Alex Watson

   Synthetic Data with Alex Watson, Founder of Gretel AI · Nov 2023

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   Alexander Meinke

   Emergency Pod: o1 Schemes Against Users, with Alexander Meinke from Apollo Research · Dec 2024

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   Alexis Carlier

   AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security Founder Alexis Carlier · Feb 2026

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   Ali Behrouz

   Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures · 2 episodes

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   Alistair Pullen

   Automating Software Engineering: Genie Tops SWE-Bench, w/ Alistair Pullen, from Latent.Space podcast · Oct 2024

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    Allan Dafoe

    Agency over AI? Allan Dafoe on Technological Determinism & DeepMind's Safety Plans, from 80000 Hours · Mar 2025

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    Amelie Schreiber

    Scouting Frontiers in AI for Biology: Dynamics, Diffusion, and Design, with Amelie Schreiber · 2 episodes

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    Amit Jain

    Luma Labs' Diffusion Revolution: from Dream Machine to Multimodal Worldsim - Amit Jain, Jiaming Song · May 2025

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    Anastasis Germanidis

    Runway's Video Revolution: Empowering Creators with General World Models, with CTO Anastasis Germanidis · Oct 2024

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    Andreas Stuhlmüller

    Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research · 2 episodes

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    Andrei Oprisan

    The Professional Network for AI Agents, with Agent.ai Engineering Lead Andrei Oprisan · Sep 2024

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    Andrew Freedman
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    Andrew Lee

    Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform · 4 episodes

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    Andrew White

    Automating Scientific Discovery, with Andrew White, Head of Science at Future House · Dec 2024

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    Andy Masley

    AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley · Dec 2025

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    Andy Zou
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    Angela Zhang

    China's Tech Tightrope: Power, Regulation, and the AI Race with Angela Zhang · Mar 2025

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    Anil Palepu
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    Anton Troynikov

    E13: AI open letter debate, "pausers", and what we're all scared of with AI with Anton Troynikov and Flo Crivello [Moment of Zen] · 2 episodes

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    Aron Vallinder

    Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes · Feb 2025

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    Arthur Conmy

    E48: Mechanizing Mechanistic Interpretability with Arthur Conmy · Jul 2023

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    Asher Trockman
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    Axel Backlund
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    Baris Gultekin

    Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on Bringing AI to Data, Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG & More · Jan 2026

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    Ben Goldhaber
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    Ben Tossell
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    Bernal Jiménez Gutierrez

    Long-Term Memory for LLMs, with HippoRAG author Bernal Jiménez Gutierrez · Jul 2024

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    Brian Elliott

    Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi · Feb 2026

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    Brian Hie

    The Evolution Revolution: Scouting Frontiers in AI for Biology with Brian Hie · Sep 2024

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    Brian Huang
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    Brian Tse

    Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse · Oct 2025

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    Bronson Schoen

    RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo · Aug 2026

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    Bryan Carberry
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    Buck Shlegeris

    AI Control: Using Untrusted Systems Safely with Buck Shlegeris of Redwood Research, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast · May 2025

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    Byron Cook
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    CA Senator Scott Wiener

    Governing Frontier AI, with CA Senator Scott Wiener, Author of SB 1047 · May 2024

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