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Stripe's Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands
Season 1
Today, Emily Sands, head of data and AI at Stripe, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss how the company built a payments foundation model that processes tens of billions of transactions into den…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave
Season 1
Today Adam Gleave, co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his cautiously optimistic vision for post-AGI futures and AI capability timelines across three distinct tier…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn
Season 1
Today Marius Hobbhahn of Apollo Research joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss their collaboration with OpenAI using "deliberative alignment" to reduce AI scheming behavior by 30x, exploring the …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
User-Owned AI: On-Chain Training, Inference, and Agents, with NEAR's Illia Polosukhin
Season 1
Today Illia Polosukhin, founder of Near Protocol joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies, exploring how decentralized infrastructure can enable "u…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Coaching the Creators: Inside the Minds Building Frontier AI with Executive Coach Joe Hudson
Season 1
Today Joe Hudson, founder of Art of Accomplishment and coach to executives at major AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss the psychological patterns he obs…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Zvi Mowshowitz on Longer Timelines, RL-induced Doom, and Why China is Refusing H20s
Season 1
Today, Zvi Mowshowitz returns to The Cognitive Revolution to discuss how recent AI developments like GPT-5 and IMO gold medals have led to modestly extended timelines despite being on-trend, while po…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
In-AI Advertising: Better Answers for Users, Big Questions for Society, with ZeroClick's Ryan Hudson
Season 1
Today Ryan Hudson, Founder and CEO of ZeroClick, joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss creating advertising infrastructure for AI applications through paid inference-time consideration of adverti…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Material Abundance: Radical AI’s Closed-Loop Lab Automates Scientific Discovery
Season 1
Today Joseph Krause and Jorge Colindres of Radical AI join The Cognitive Revolution to discuss their ambitious mission to revolutionize materials science by combining AI-powered discovery engines wit…
Published on 2 months ago
Untangling Neural Network Mechanisms: Goodfire's Lee Sharkey on Parameter-based Interpretability
Season 1
Today Lee Sharkey of Goodfire joins The Cognitive Revolution to discuss his research on parameter decomposition methods that break down neural networks into interpretable computational components, ex…
Published on 2 months ago
What if Humans Weaponize Superintelligence, w/ Tom Davidson, from Future of Life Institute Podcast
Season 1
Today Tom Davidson of Forethought joins Gus Docker of the Future of Life Institute podcast to discuss AI-enabled coups and how future AI systems could help powerful individuals seize political contro…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago