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"The Cognitive Revolution"
by Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
391 EPISODES
Feb 2023
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AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New Hacks
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt Chessen
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM Highlights: Clean Neurons, Black October, the GPU Credit Crunch, and Buying the Supply Chain
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
A World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Virtual Cells, Measurement, & the $1.8B Data Push
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ...
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform
Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz