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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Samuel Hammond
The Case for Trump and the Future of AI – Part 1, with Samuel Hammond, Senior Economist, Foundation of American Innovation · Nov 2024

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Sergiy Nesterenko
Automating Circuit Board Design Using Reinforcement Learning w Sergiy Nesterenko, Founder of Quilter on Autopilot · Apr 2024

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Shawn Jansepar
E53: The AI Revolution in Education with Shawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy · Aug 2023

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Sherif Mansour
Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour · Nov 2025

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Shoshannah Tekofsky

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Shreya Rajpal
E28: Keeping the AI Revolution on the Rails with Shreya Rajpal of Guardrails AI · May 2023

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Sid Pardeshi

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Siyu He
Unlocking Cells' Secrets: Diffusion, Deconvolution, & Discovery with Siyu He, author of Squidiff & CORAL · Mar 2025

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Sophia Lear

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Star Chris Stokes
A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry · Nov 2025

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Stephen Parker
AI-Powered Filmmaking with Waymark's Stephen Parker and Josh Rubin · Sep 2023

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Steve Newman
Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve · Apr 2026

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Steven Adler
OpenAI's Identity Crisis: History, Culture & Non-Profit Control with ex-employee Steven Adler · May 2025

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Séb Krier

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Tan Zhi Xuan
Beyond Preference Alignment: Teaching AIs to Play Roles & Respect Norms, with Tan Zhi Xuan · Nov 2024

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Tanishq Mathew Abraham
E38: The Virtual Biopsy Revolution with Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham (Part 2 of 2) · 2 episodes

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Tao Tu

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Ted Xiao

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Thomas von Tschammer
1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering · Jul 2026

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Tim Duignan
Fluid Intelligence: Simulating Solutions with Tim Duignan · Jun 2024

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Tim Reutemann
Envisioning a Positive AI Future, with Tim Reutemann, Author of Liquid Reign · Mar 2024

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Tom Davidson
What if Humans Weaponize Superintelligence, w/ Tom Davidson, from Future of Life Institute Podcast · Aug 2025

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Tom McGrath

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Trey Kollmer
The Future of the Transformer Part 2 with Trey Kollmer · 4 episodes

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Tudor Achim

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Tulsee Doshi

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Tyler Angert
E50: The Future of Software Development with Tyler Angert of Replit · Aug 2023

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Vijoy Pandey
Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey · Mar 2026

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Vivek Natarajan
New in Nature: Google Agents Beat Human Doctors, Make Scientific Discoveries – With Vivek Natarajan and Anil Palepu · 4 episodes

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Wesley Berry

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Will Hardman
Teaching AI to See: A Technical Deep-Dive on Vision Language Models with Will Hardman of Veratai · Jan 2025

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Yeshua God
Empathy for AIs: Reframing Alignment with Robopsychologist Yeshua God · Sep 2024

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Yohei Nakajima
AI & Identity, from East & West, with Yohei Nakajima GP at Untapped Capital and BabyAGI Creator · 2 episodes

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Yuanzhi Li

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Zico Kolter
Universal Jailbreaks with Zico Kolter, Andy Zou, and Asher Trockman · Sep 2023

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Ziming Liu
E39: Seeing is Believing with MIT’s Ziming Liu · Jun 2023

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James J. Collins
AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins · Oct 2025

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Benjamin Todd
Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd · May 2026

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