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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Luke Drago
Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast · Jan 2026

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Mahmoud Felfel
E10: The AI Voice Revolution with Mahmoud Felfel of Play.ht · Mar 2023

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Manu Sharma
The Data Factory: Inside the $100B Race for Post-Training Supremacy, with Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma · Jul 2025

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Marc Bhargava
The Revolution in Services: General Catalyst's AI Rollup Strategy, with Marc Bhargava · Aug 2025

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Marek Kozlowski
Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski · Dec 2025

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Marius Hobbhahn
Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn · 3 episodes

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Mark Humphries
Hardcore AI for History with Mark Humphries, Professor of History at Wilfred Laurier University · Oct 2023

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Matt Welsh
E19: The AI Agent Revolution with Matt Welsh of Fixie.ai · Apr 2023

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Matthew Harvey Sanders
What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard · Nov 2025

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Micha Kaufman
Fiverr Goes All-In on AI: Empowering Creators, Not Replacing Them, with Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr · Apr 2025

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Michael Boyce
Building Government's Largest Civilian AI Team with DHS AI Corps' Director, Michael Boyce · Dec 2024

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Michele Catasta
E51: Replit's VP of AI, Michele Catasta, on Artificial Developer Intelligence · Aug 2023

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Mike Vaiana

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Nathan Calvin
Final Analysis on CA’s AI Bill SB 1047 with Nathan Calvin, Dean W. Ball, and Steve Newman · Aug 2024

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Nathan Lambert
Everything You Wanted to Know About LLM Post-Training, with Nathan Lambert of Allen Institute for AI · Nov 2024

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Neal Khosla
E25: Revolutionizing Patient Care with Neal Khosla of Curai Health · May 2023

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Neev Parikh
Can AIs do AI R&D? Reviewing REBench Results with Neev Parikh of METR · Dec 2024

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Nemil Dalal
402 Payment Required: a New Way for AI Agents to Pay, with Nemil Dalal, Dev Platform Lead @ Coinbase · Jun 2025

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Nicholas Carlini
The Adversarial Mind: Defeating AI Defenses with Nicholas Carlini of Google DeepMind · Feb 2025

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Nick Joseph
Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy, with Nick Joseph, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast · Sep 2024

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Nora Ammann
Guaranteed Safe AI? World Models, Safety Specs, & Verifiers, with Nora Ammann & Ben Goldhaber · 2 episodes

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Olive Song
Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post · Feb 2026

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Owain Evans
Leading Indicators of AI Danger: Owain Evans on Situational Awareness & Out-of-Context Reasoning, from The Inside View · Oct 2024

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Pablo Arredondo
AI and the Practice of Law: from CaseText to CoCounsel, with Pablo Arredondo, VP of CoCounsel for Thomson Reuters · Mar 2024

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Paige Bailey
E57: Google's PaLM 2 with Paige Bailey · Aug 2023

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Pete Johnson
Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance · Sep 2026

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Phil Murphy
New Jersey’s AI Moonshot: Governor Phil Murphy on Partnerships, Progress, and Preparedness · Feb 2025

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Quentin Anthony
Training Zamba: A Hybrid Model Master Class with Zyphra's Quentin Anthony · Oct 2024

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Rachel Woods
E22: Helping Businesses Use AI with Rachel Woods of The AI Exchange · May 2023

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Rajat Bhageria
A Foundation Model for Food, with Chef Robotics CEO Rajat Bhageria · Jul 2024

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Raza Habib
E20: The Great Implementation with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop · Apr 2023

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Rebecca Hinds
Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work · Jun 2026

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Riley Goodside
From Poetry to Programming: The Evolution of Prompt Engineering with Riley Goodside of Scale AI · 2 episodes

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Robert Scoble
E23: Scouting the AI Revolution with Robert Scoble and "Ben's Bites" creator Ben Tossell · May 2023

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Ronen Dar
E47: GPUMaxing with Dr. Ronen Dar of Run:ai · Jul 2023

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Ronen Eldan
E33: The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research · Jun 2023

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Ryan Hudson
In-AI Advertising: Better Answers for Users, Big Questions for Society, with ZeroClick's Ryan Hudson · Sep 2025

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Ryan Kidd
Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS · Jan 2026

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Sam Hammond
AGI and Institutional Disruption: Sam Hammond in Conversation with FLI’s Gus Docker · Dec 2023

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Sam Stephenson
Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson · Apr 2026

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