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Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
Season 1
Rebecca Hinds, author of "Your Best Meeting Ever" and Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, breaks down the surprising findings from the new Work A…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)
Season 1
This first highlights edition of the morning experiment tracks a week of fast-moving AI frontier news, from closed-door recursive self-improvement de…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures
Season 1
Ali Behrouz, grad student at Cornell and Google researcher, discusses his potentially transformative work on new architectures for continual learning…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
Season 1
Daniel Miessler returns to discuss Nathan's newly built personal AI infrastructure, including a Claude Code instance with a 1 GB database of five yea…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
Season 1
Ben Todd, co-founder of 80,000 Hours and author of the newly rewritten book by the same name, shares his latest thinking on how individuals can posit…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology
Season 1
Jeffrey Ladish, Executive Director of Palisade Research, discusses his team's findings on AI shutdown resistance and self-replication, revealing how …
5 months ago
The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More
Season 1
Logan Kilpatrick and Tulsee Doshi of Google DeepMind join for a first-ever in-person episode recorded just days before Google I/O, covering headline …
5 months ago
Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform
Season 1
Andrew Lee, CEO of Tasklet, returns for his fourth appearance to share how his team has once again rewritten their entire agent stack, now emphasizin…
5 months, 1 week ago
Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola
Season 1
Diarmuid Gill and Liva Ralaivola of Criteo join Nathan Labenz to unpack how modern ad tech works, from millisecond-speed recommendation systems and r…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate
Season 1
Laura Burkhauser, CEO of Descript, explains how the company is navigating the tension between powerful AI tools and creator backlash against “slop.” …
5 months, 2 weeks ago