"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%

12 July 2026 2h 23m transcript summary

AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen

9 July 2026 2h 7m

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

4 July 2026 1h 47m transcript summary

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

1 July 2026 1h 29m transcript summary

AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha

27 June 2026 1h 56m

The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test

23 June 2026 2h 29m

AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More

21 June 2026 2h 14m transcript summary

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

20 June 2026 2h 39m

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

17 June 2026 1h 46m

AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)

13 June 2026 1h 44m

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

10 June 2026 1h 46m transcript summary

AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)

6 June 2026 1h 22m

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

3 June 2026 3h 0m

Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup

30 May 2026 2h 32m

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

26 May 2026 1h 42m

All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology

24 May 2026 2h 13m

The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More

20 May 2026 59 min transcript summary

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

15 May 2026 1h 33m transcript summary

Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola

9 May 2026 1h 27m

"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate

6 May 2026 1h 23m

The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking

1 May 2026 1h 46m transcript summary

AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute

26 April 2026 2h 38m transcript summary

Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research

23 April 2026 3h 33m

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

19 April 2026 2h 9m

Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store

15 April 2026 2h 30m

It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast

11 April 2026 3h 10m

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

8 April 2026 1h 34m

Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson

4 April 2026 1h 55m

Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast

1 April 2026 1h 44m transcript summary

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

25 March 2026 1h 35m transcript summary

Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools

22 March 2026 1h 38m

Zvi’s Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!

19 March 2026 3h 26m transcript summary

AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF

16 March 2026 1h 16m

Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn

11 March 2026 1h 43m

Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life

8 March 2026 2h 6m

Don’t Fight Backprop: Goodfire’s Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath

5 March 2026 1h 47m transcript summary

Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving

1 March 2026 2h 18m

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

25 February 2026 2h 1m

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

22 February 2026 55 min transcript summary

Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic’s Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything

18 February 2026 1h 31m transcript summary

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

14 February 2026 2h 22m transcript summary

Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi

13 February 2026 1h 32m transcript summary

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

8 February 2026 1h 16m

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

5 February 2026 1h 56m transcript summary

The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space

1 February 2026 1h 2m

AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws

29 January 2026 1h 36m

The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software

25 January 2026 2h 11m

AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!

22 January 2026 2h 23m

Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler’s Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity

18 January 2026 2h 28m transcript summary

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

14 January 2026 1h 39m

AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis

9 January 2026 1h 54m transcript summary

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

4 January 2026 1h 54m

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

1 January 2026 1h 16m transcript summary

Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show

27 December 2025 1h 15m

The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS

24 December 2025 1h 39m

AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2

19 December 2025 1h 39m

AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1

18 December 2025 1h 55m

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

14 December 2025 2h 3m

Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates

10 December 2025 2h 0m

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

6 December 2025 1h 29m

China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk

3 December 2025 1h 23m

Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks

30 November 2025 1h 13m

AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast

27 November 2025 51 min

What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit

25 November 2025 1h 4m

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

20 November 2025 1h 40m

AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son

17 November 2025 2h 2m

My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast

12 November 2025 1h 9m

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

8 November 2025 1h 53m

More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio

5 November 2025 2h 24m

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

2 November 2025 1h 49m

Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast

29 October 2025 1h 37m

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

25 October 2025 1h 28m

Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee

22 October 2025 2h 13m

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

18 October 2025 2h 44m

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

14 October 2025 1h 24m

Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI

8 October 2025 1h 52m

The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom

5 October 2025 1h 34m

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

2 October 2025 1h 0m

The Machines Are Taking Our Jobs - Thank God? Emad Mostaque’s Guide to the next 1000 Days

28 September 2025 2h 16m

Stripe’s Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands

25 September 2025 1h 21m transcript summary

Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave

20 September 2025 1h 27m

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

18 September 2025 2h 8m

User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin

13 September 2025 1h 33m

Coaching the Creators: Inside the Minds Building Frontier AI with Executive Coach Joe Hudson

11 September 2025 1h 44m

Zvi Mowshowitz on Longer Timelines, RL-induced Doom, and Why China is Refusing H20s

6 September 2025 3h 13m

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

3 September 2025 1h 51m

Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery

30 August 2025 1h 54m

Untangling Neural Network Mechanisms: Goodfire's Lee Sharkey on Parameter-based Interpretability

27 August 2025 2h 2m

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

23 August 2025 2h 4m

The AI Whistleblower Initiative: Supporting AGI Insiders When It Matters Most, w/ founder Karl Koch

20 August 2025 1h 51m

Autonomous Organizations: Vending Bench & Beyond, w/ Lukas Petersson & Axel Backlund of Andon Labs

16 August 2025 1h 48m

Dean W. Ball on America's AI Action Plan & 4 Months at the White House

13 August 2025 3h 14m

Jake Sullivan on Navigating AI Uncertainty and Managing Competition with China

9 August 2025 1h 12m

Sovereign AI: Geopolitical Strategy & Industrial Policy for Countries 3-193, with Anjney Midha, a16z

6 August 2025 1h 42m

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

2 August 2025 1h 24m

Liability for AI Harms: How Ancient Law Can Govern Frontier Technology Risk, with Prof Gabriel Weil

26 July 2025 2h 11m

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

22 July 2025 1h 53m

The Dawn of Dynamic AI: RFT Comes Online, w/ Predibase CEO Dev Rishi, from Inference by Turing Post

16 July 2025 35 min

Cracking the Medical Code: Why Cleveland Clinic Doctors Love Their Ambience Healthcare AI Scribe

10 July 2025 1h 28m

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

8 July 2025 1h 41m

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