
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
Hosted by Nathan Labenz and Nathan and Prakash Narayanan · Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
4.7from 236 ratings
- 393
- Episodes
- 318
- Transcribed
- 236
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
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
- Publisher
- Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz
- Category
- business · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Feb 2023
- Latest episode
- 17 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
318 of 393 episodes have a transcript.

17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs

14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Inside a recent episode

AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs
Published 17 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And certainly, how are they going to feel about us? It seems to be a pretty, where we're going, a pretty important question. Part four, proving the kernel. Runtime verification has spent about 15 years building tools that mathematically prove software does what it's supposed to. CEO Everett Hildenbrand and founder Gregor Aroshu, a professor at the University of Illinois, joined us. Using language models alongside formal methods, the company had just reported bugs in the Linux kernel. Everett answered my question. So why was this not caught previously? What was it about your approach that allowed this to rise to the top where so many human eyes had presumably just, you know, blown right past this issue in previous reviews. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Cameron Berg
- Everett Hildenbrandt
- Grigore Rosu
- Phil Maher
- Alan Chan
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 4,745,798
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 97 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 139 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 98 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 100
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Questions about "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
Who hosts "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis?
Nathan Labenz and Nathan and Prakash Narayanan host the show. Published by Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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