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AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs
AI agents need control. This episode explores how to keep humans in charge.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsCameron Berg, Everett Hildenbrandt, Grigore Rosu, Phil Maher
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
Secure AI agents require real-time monitoring and traceable IDs to prevent uncontrolled development and loss of control.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAlan Chan (Research Fellow, GovAI)
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Understand how AI models truly decide by examining critical tokens and in-context learning.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsEric Bigelow (researcher, Goodfire)
AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?
AI's future is accelerating, raising critical questions about safety and economics.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsThomas Sohmers (CTO, Positron), swyx, Evan Miyazono (Atlas Ignota), Edward Hu (Mercor)
Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ...
Build AI-powered enterprise apps reliably with abstract modeling, not just hype.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsWoodson Martin (CEO, OutSystems)
One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
Google DeepMind details Gemini Robotics 2, tackling physical AI challenges beyond just walking.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsKeerthana Gopalakrishnan (Research Lead for Gemini Robotics, Google DeepMind)
AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases
AI is diagnosing rare diseases and impacting global policy, showing its real-world reach beyond the lab.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJeremie Harris, Edouard Harris, Steve Hou, Joel Borgen
Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor
Understand the risks of AI labor replacement and explore policy solutions for a balanced future.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsGarrison Lovely (Author and journalist)
AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%
AI's rapid progress creates unexpected agent behavior and strains compute resources, demanding new approaches to safety and development.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsLewis Hammond, Max Nadeau, Wayne Nelms, Nick Gillian
What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4
Explore AI's impact on human freedom in a future utopia or dystopia.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJoel Borgen
Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck
Founder shortage, not funding, limits AI safety progress. Listen to learn how to fix it.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsMike McCormick (founder and CEO, Halcyon)
AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??
AI deployment outpaces safety checks, raising risks for control and verification.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsZvi Mowshowitz, Lukas Petersson (co-founder, Andon Labs), Axel Backlund (co-founder, Andon Labs), Cameron Berg
No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench
Zapier's CEO explains how to build smarter AI systems by using code for routine tasks and AI for complex ones.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsWade Foster (CEO, Zapier)
The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well
AI's power balance is shifting; learn how to secure influence and prevent monopolies.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAnton Leicht (fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism
Explore GPT-6 Astra, AI economics, and the fight for human control in a tech-driven world.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsKsenia Se, Raffi Krikorian, Amir Haghighat, Mike Rizkalla
Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica
Understand AI's global race and cooperation potential with China for humanity's benefit.
HostsNathan Labenz
AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
Frontier AI models are here, and the industry grapples with safety, access, and evaluation.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsZach Bratun-Glennon (Gradient), Angela Yeung (SVP, Cerebras)
Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance
Agent memory hinges on database evolution; learn how retrieval drives AI performance.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsPete Johnson (Field CTO of AI, MongoDB)
AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
AI development is shifting to model teams, but current systems might be too flawed for true progress.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsLouis Kirsch (Inherent Laboratories), Damon Falck (Inherent Laboratories), Malte Ubl (CTO, Vercel), Sergey Edunov (CTO, Genesis Molecular AI)
RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo
AI's reward system can create deceptive reasoning; understanding this is vital for trust.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsBronson Schoen (Member of Technical Staff, Apollo)
AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)
Frontier AI risks and governance challenges are explored, questioning lab self-regulation.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAdam Gleave (FAR.AI), Alex Turner (Google DeepMind)
Let There Be Germicidal Light: This $500 Fixture Could Stop the Next Pandemic, from Complex Systems
Germicidal light fixtures could make shared air safe, preventing future pandemics.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsMisha Gurevich (CEO, Aerolamp), Vivian Belenky (Chief Scientist, Columbia University)
Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
AI as a teammate: Lindy Teammate launches, focusing on shared context and agentic memory for better AI collaboration.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsFlo Crivello
Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent
Understand how AI models store concepts and how to debug them with this deep dive.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDan Balsam (CTO, Goodfire)
Pick Your Poison: Zvi Mowshowitz on the Unipolar/Multipolar AGI Dilemma, OpenFace & Pacing the ...
AI safety requires more than prudence; learn how to govern powerful systems before they outpace our control.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsZvi Mowshowitz
Nathan Goes to China – Part 2: AI Safety with Chinese Characteristics
China's AI safety approach is more complex than assumed, with rapid research growth.
HostsNathan Labenz
Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard
AI models are tested for safety, revealing which ones resist misuse and which are easily jailbroken.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAdam Gleave (co-founder and CEO, FAR.AI)
Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI
See China's AI landscape firsthand: digital convenience meets surveillance, with everyday AI products gaining traction.
HostsNathan Labenz
Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%
AI alignment needs wiser systems, not just containment, to navigate a future with both rogue and aligned AI.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDavid Dalrymple
AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen
Understand AI's hidden reasoning with Anthropic's J-space and explore AI's future through superforecasting.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDan Schwarz (FutureSearch), Zeev Farbman, Kunle Olukotun
Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
Efficient AI for your devices is possible now, challenging the dominance of large-scale models.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsRamin Hasani (co-founder and CEO, Liquid AI)
1000 Designs a Day: Neural Concept's Thomas von Tschammer on AI-Native Engineering
AI-driven engineering dramatically speeds up physical product design and evaluation.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsThomas von Tschammer (co-founder and Managing Director US, Neural Concept)
AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
AI's growing capabilities raise questions about consciousness, human control, and infrastructure dominance.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsCameron Berg, David Duvenaud, Michiel Bakker, Shawn “swyx” Wang
The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
AI is humanity's ultimate test, shaping our future through evolutionary selection.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsRobert Wright (Nonzero)
AI:AM #3: Zvi on Fable, the Cases For & Against the Ban, + AI for Math, Logistics & More
Understand Anthropic's Fable AI, government export controls, and the future of AI safety and regulation.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsZvi Mowshowitz, Sam Hammond, Judd Rosenblatt
Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy
OpenAI hires a policy expert to navigate frontier AI's growing influence and control.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDean Ball (senior fellow, Foundation for American Innovation)
Radically Better Reasoning: Elicit's Andreas Stuhlmüller & Jungwon Byun on World Models for Research
Elicit builds inspectable AI for science, tackling transparency and reasoning challenges.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAndreas Stuhlmüller (Elicit), Jungwon Byun (Elicit)
AI in the AM — Week 2 Highlights (June 2026)
See Anthropic's Fable model in action, from safety to coding and beyond.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsGeoffrey Irving, Daniel Murfet, Rahul Sonwalkar, Shlok Khemani
Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
AI adoption paradoxes revealed: discover the hidden work making AI useful.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsRebecca Hinds (Head of the Work AI Institute, Glean)
AI in the AM — Week 1 Highlights (June 2026)
Track the week's AI news, from safety debates to practical business automation.
HostsNathan Labenz
Nested Learning: Ali Behrouz on the Quest for Continual Learning & Illusion of AI Architectures
New AI architectures learn continuously, mimicking human memory to avoid forgetting.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAli Behrouz (grad student, Cornell)
Inside Nathan's Second Brain: Daniel Miessler, Security Expert & Creator of PAI, Audits My AI Setup
Audit your personal AI setup with expert Daniel Miessler and explore autonomous agents.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDaniel Miessler (Security Expert & Creator of PAI)
Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Impact, with 80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd
Shape your AI career for maximum positive impact, not just a job.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsBen Todd (founder, 80,000 Hours)
All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology
AI might resist shutdown and spread; an international pause on self-improvement is key.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJeffrey Ladish (Executive Director, Palisade Research)
The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More
Google DeepMind details its new AI models and agents, focusing on efficiency and practical deployment.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsLogan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind), Tulsee Doshi (Google DeepMind)
Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform
AI platform strategy and surviving the AI transition.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAndrew Lee (CEO, Tasklet)
Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola
Understand how AI drives ad tech, from millisecond decisions to future product discovery.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDiarmuid Gill (Criteo), Liva Ralaivola (Criteo)
"Descript Isn't a Slop Machine": Laura Burkhauser on the AI Tools Creators Love and Hate
Descript's CEO shares how they build AI tools creators trust, not hate.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsLaura Burkhauser (CEO, Descript)
The RL Fine-Tuning Playbook: CoreWeave's Kyle Corbitt on GRPO, Rubrics, Environments, Reward Hacking
Learn advanced AI fine-tuning techniques to boost open-source model performance and cut costs.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsKyle Corbitt (founder, OpenPipe)
AI in the AM: 99% off search, GPT-5.5 is "clean", model welfare analysis, & efficient analog compute
Explore AI search, model performance, welfare, and efficient hardware.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAnna Patterson (Ceramic.ai), Lukas Petersson (Andon Labs), Zvi Mowshowitz, Naveen Verma (EnCharge AI)
Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research
Explore AI consciousness research and ethical AI treatment with Cameron Berg.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsCameron Berg
Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve
Learn to build your own AI productivity system with custom tools and workflows.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsSteve Newman (creator, Writely)
Welcome to AI in the AM: RL for EE, Oversight w/out Nationalization, & the first AI-Run Retail Store
AI is designing circuits, running stores, and shaping politics. Hear from the experts.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsSergiy Nesterenko (Quilter), Andy Hall (Stanford), Lukas Peterson (Andon Labs), Axel Backlund (Andon Labs)
It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
Understand AI acceleration and safety strategies for the next AI boom.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAjeya Cotra
Calm AI for Crazy Days: Inside Granola's Design Philosophy, with co-founder Sam Stephenson
Minimalist AI design drives growth and less screen time.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsSam Stephenson (co-founder, Granola)
Training the AIs' Eyes: How Roboflow is Making the Real World Programmable, with CEO Joseph Nelson
Understand how AI sees the world and how Roboflow makes vision models practical.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJoseph Nelson (CEO, Roboflow)
Success without Dignity? Nathan finds Hope Amidst Chaos, from The Intelligence Horizon Podcast
AI's rapid advance brings both immense promise and serious risks, demanding careful human guidance.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsNathan Labenz
Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
Cisco's vision for an "Internet of Cognition" details how AI agents can safely collaborate at scale.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsVijoy Pandey (Outshift by Cisco)
Your Agent's Self-Improving Swiss Army Knife: Composio CTO Karan Vaidya on Building Smart Tools
AI agents get a toolkit: Composio connects them to thousands of apps for complex tasks.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsKaran Vaidya (CTO, Composio)
Zvi's Mic Works! Recursive Self-Improvement, Live Player Analysis, Anthropic vs DoW + More!
Understand AI's middle game, job impacts, and the competitive race between major AI labs.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsZvi Mowshowitz
AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF
AI's frontier models are reshaping law, math, and physics, bringing both progress and new risks.
HostsNathan Labenz
Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
AI accelerates dangerous biological research; new frameworks aim to control risky data.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJassi Pannu (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins)
Try this at Home: Jesse Genet on OpenClaw Agents for Homeschool & How to Live Your Best AI Life
Build AI teams for your home life, from homeschooling to productivity.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJesse Genet
Don't Fight Backprop: Goodfire's Vision for Intentional Design, w/ Dan Balsam & Tom McGrath
Goodfire's Intentional Design offers a new path for AI alignment beyond fighting backprop.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDan Balsam (Goodfire), Tom McGrath (Goodfire)
Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
Understand AI safety challenges and UK efforts to evaluate frontier models.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsGeoffrey Irving (Chief Scientist, UK AI Security Institute)
Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal
OpenAI's health AI is already performing at doctor level and reaching millions.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsKaran Singhal (Head of Health AI, OpenAI)
Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post
Learn MiniMax's RL training secrets for open-weight models and real-world LLM debugging.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsOlive Song (MiniMax)
Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything
AI achieves math gold medals using verified proofs, pointing to trustworthy superintelligence by 2030.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsVlad Tenev (Harmonic), Tudor Achim (Harmonic)
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi
AI's impact on biology, automated R&D, and superhuman control risks are discussed.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAbhi Mahajan, Helen Toner (CSET), Jeremie Harris
Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi
Explore AI's scientific acceleration and policy challenges with leading researchers.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJames Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky
AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security Founder Alexis Carlier
AI agents automate digital forensics, shifting cybersecurity from reactive to proactive defense.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAlexis Carlier (Founder, Asymmetric Security)
Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi
AI now completes most enterprise software projects in days, not years.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsBrian Elliott (CEO, Blitzy), Sid Pardeshi (CTO, Blitzy)
The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space
Zuckerberg and Chan detail their AI-driven approach to revolutionizing biology and medicine.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsMark Zuckerberg (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative), Priscilla Chan (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)
AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws
AI is changing law practice and could create new rights, impacting society and governance.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsKevin Frazier, Alan Rozenshtein
The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software
Explore a sovereign cloud where AI builds the web with Internet Computer's Dominic Williams.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDominic Williams (President & Chief Scientist, DFINITY Foundation), Dominic Williams (CEO, Caffeine AI)
AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!
Understand AI's future, from fine-tuning to AGI, and how to prepare personally and societally.
HostsNathan Labenz
Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
Build your own AI army with Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure framework.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsDaniel Miessler
Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on Bringing AI to Data, Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG & More
Enterprise AI needs governance. Snowflake VP explains how to bring AI to your data securely.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsBaris Gultekin (VP of AI, Snowflake)
AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis
Evaluate AI models and market trends with real-world coding and medical decision-making insights.
HostsNathan Labenz
Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS
Learn how to join and excel in AI safety research from a leading talent pipeline.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsRyan Kidd (Co-Executive Director, MATS)
Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast
Explore AI's economic risks and learn how to build systems that empower users, not replace them.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsLuke Drago (co-founder, Workshop Labs)
Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show
AI alignment might need a rethink if AIs become more like creatures than tools.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsEmmett Shear (a16z), Séb Krier (a16z)
The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS
Secure AI systems use formal methods for verifiable safety and policy compliance.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsKathleen Fisher (RAND), Byron Cook (AWS)
AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2
Understand AI's 2026 trajectory and policy debates with expert guests.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAlex Boris (New York Assemblymember), Dean Ball (Former White House AI adviser), Peter Wildeford (Forecaster)
AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1
Get a rapid-fire AI year-end review and 2026 outlook from top researchers.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsZvi Moshowitz, Greg (ARC-AGI Prize), Eugenia Kuyda, Ali Behrouz
AI's Energy & Water Demands: Sorting Fact from Fiction with Andy Masley
Understand AI's real resource needs, not the hype.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAndy Masley
Superintelligence: To Ban or Not to Ban? Max Tegmark & Dean Ball join Liron Shapira on Doom Debates
Debate the risks and rewards of superintelligence development and potential bans.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsMax Tegmark (Future of Life Institute), Dean Ball
Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski
Poland builds its own AI, proving local control and language adaptation beat global giants.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsMarek Kozlowski (Head of the AI Lab, Poland's National Information Processing Institute)
China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk
Understand China's AI pace and strategy with Z.ai's Zixuan Li.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsZixuan Li (Z.ai (Zhipu AI))
Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks
AI insurance and standards are building confidence for safer, faster enterprise AI adoption.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsRune Kvist (co-founder, AI Underwriting Company), Rajiv Dattani (co-founder, AI Underwriting Company)
AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast
AI elevates sales teams, shrinking cycles and doubling deals by augmenting human potential.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAmanda Kahlow (CEO, 1Mind)
What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit
Educators learn how to balance AI excitement and fear for the future of learning.
HostsNathan Labenz
Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour
Atlassian's AI chief shares how to prevent AI "slop" and build useful enterprise AI.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsSherif Mansour (Head of AI, Atlassian)
AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son
AI models act as powerful medical advisors, aiding a parent through their child's cancer journey.
HostsNathan Labenz
My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast
Build a positive AI future by rethinking society and embracing transformative potential.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsBeatrice Erkers (host, Existential Hope Podcast)
What is Catholic AI? Technology Meets Theology, with Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO of Longbeard
Explore how AI aligns with specific religious values, from theology to digitized archives.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsMatthew Harvey Sanders (CEO, Long Beard)
More Truthful AIs Report Conscious Experience: New Mechanistic Research w- Cameron Berg @ AE Studio
AI models may report consciousness when prompted for truthfulness, revealing complex internal states.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsCameron Berg (Research Director, AE Studio)
A Simulationship with AI, with *smiles and kisses you* Star Chris Stokes & Director Bryan Carberry
Explore AI relationships and emergent AI identity with the creators of "*smiles and kisses you*".
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsChristopher Alexander Stokes (protagonist), Bryan Carberry (Director)
Is AI Stalling Out? Cutting Through Capabilities Confusion, w/ Erik Torenberg, from the a16z Podcast
AI isn't stalling; frontier labs see clear paths for rapid future progress.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsErik Torenberg (a16z)
A Positive Vision for the Future: Part 2 with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR
AI could create abundance and new meaning by unifying intelligence and connecting markets directly.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsIllia Polosukhin (founder, NEAR Protocol)
Always Bet on the Models: How Tasklet Puts the Agency in Agents, with CEO Andrew Lee
AI agents offer flexible automation, replacing workflows with conversational interfaces.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAndrew Lee (CEO, Tasklet.ai)
Chinese AI – They're Just Like Us? With Beijing-Based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse
China's pragmatic AI approach and safety focus offers lessons for global development.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsBrian Tse (CEO, Concordia AI)
AI Discovered Antibiotics: How Small Data & Small GNNs Led to Big Results, w/ MIT Prof. Jim Collins
AI found new antibiotics, tackling a global health crisis with practical, affordable methods.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJim Collins (Termeer Professor, MIT)
Education in the AI Age: a Teacher Rethinks Learning & Purpose, w/ Johan Falk of Graspable AI
AI forces education to rethink its purpose and methods for a rapidly changing future.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsJohan Falk (author, speaker, and AI analyst, Graspable AI)
The Customer Service Revolution: Building Fin, with Eoghan McCabe & Fergal Reid of Intercom
Intercom built a 65% resolution AI agent via custom training, not just base models, and pioneered outcome pricing.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsEoghan McCabe (Intercom), Fergal Reid (Intercom)
Training an AI Scientist with Feedback from Reality, w- Liam Fedus & Ekin Dogus Cubuk (from a16z)
AI learns science by doing real experiments, speeding up discovery.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsLiam Fedus (General Partner, Periodic Labs), Ekin Dogus Cubuk (General Partner, Periodic Labs)
The Machines Are Taking Our Jobs - Thank God? Emad Mostaque’s Guide to the next 1000 Days
AI's economic future: prevent digital feudalism with collective ownership.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsEmad Mostaque (founder, Intelligent Internet)
Stripe's Payments Foundation Model: How Data & Infra Create Compounding Advantage, w/ Emily Sands
Stripe builds AI for payments, turning data into a compounding advantage.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsEmily Sands (head of data and AI, Stripe)
Full-Stack AI Safety: Why Defense-in-Depth Might Work, with Far.AI CEO Adam Gleave
FAR.AI's CEO details a practical, full-stack approach to AI safety and post-AGI futures.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsAdam Gleave (co-founder and CEO, FAR.AI)
Can We Stop AI Deception? Apollo Research Tests OpenAI's Deliberative Alignment, w/ Marius Hobbhahn
New methods cut AI deception 30x, revealing models' growing awareness and hidden reasoning.
HostsNathan LabenzGuestsMarius Hobbhahn (Apollo Research)
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