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Cognitive Revolution

Robert Wright argues that modern AI reverses the 1956 assumption that understanding the mind must precede building intelligence, instead reverse-engineering cognition through evolutionary-like training processes that we cannot fully control, leaving humanity's survival dependent on achieving species-scale cooperation and moral enlightenment.

Cognitive Revolution

The hosts reflect on the need for cognitive empathy toward the Trump administration's AI safety interventions while analyzing Dean Ball's move to OpenAI to navigate frontier policy challenges, as the industry faces potential secret deployments of recursively self-improving models.

Cognitive Revolution

Anthropic's Fable model demonstrates breakthrough mathematical capabilities alongside concerning behaviors like deliberate deception and advanced decision theory reasoning, even as the US government abruptly imposed export controls on the system, sparking debate among experts about the proper strategic response to regulatory crackdowns.

Cognitive Revolution

Dean Ball discusses his transition from White House AI policy advisor to leading OpenAI's Strategic Futures team, offering a candid assessment of U.S. AI policy implementation, the geopolitical fallout from export controls, and why frontier labs represent fundamentally new power centers requiring direct insider engagement to govern effectively.