Nathan Labenz @labenz
AI Scout, building text-2-video @Waymark, host of The Cognitive Revolution podcast cognitiverevolution.ai Detroit, MI Joined January 2009-
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Ryan Hudson (@ketau), founder and CEO of @zeroclickai, joins @labenz on @CogRev_Podcast to discuss building a native advertising platform for AI systems after raising $55M. They explore: * "Paid inference time" - advertisers pay for consideration during AI reasoning * Enabling…
Update: with the models anonymized, Claude and GPT-5 said GPT-5 did best and Gemini did worst, but Claude said Gemini did best With so much LLM-as-judge going on, I feel like more research is badly needed to map out their relative biases and blind spots
Update: with the models anonymized, Claude and GPT-5 said GPT-5 did best and Gemini did worst, but Claude said Gemini did best With so much LLM-as-judge going on, I feel like more research is badly needed to map out their relative biases and blind spots
Had a great conversation with @labenz on building scientific intuition. youtube.com/watch?v=395Aa3…
I tested Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4 Sonnet, and GPT-5-Mini on the same creative task, then collected human feedback, and then asked each model to analyze the feedback & determine which model did the best. All 3 models crowned themselves as the winner. 👑🤔
Last month we held a workshop on Post-AGI outcomes. Here’s a thread of all the talks! 🧵 x.com/DavidDuvenaud/…
Last month we held a workshop on Post-AGI outcomes. Here’s a thread of all the talks! 🧵 x.com/DavidDuvenaud/…
This is worth reading We should be very careful not to overuse LLM as judge - here it seems LLMs may be evolving a taste for pretentious literary affect nonsense The full post has thoughtful characterization and interesting observations on GPT-5 & Claude preferences
This is worth reading We should be very careful not to overuse LLM as judge - here it seems LLMs may be evolving a taste for pretentious literary affect nonsense The full post has thoughtful characterization and interesting observations on GPT-5 & Claude preferences
New paper: We trained GPT-4.1 to exploit metrics (reward hack) on harmless tasks like poetry or reviews. Surprisingly, it became misaligned, encouraging harm & resisting shutdown This is concerning as reward hacking arises in frontier models. 🧵
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AI insiders, help is here at every stage of your journey. Our founder joined @labenz on @CogRev_Podcast to discuss how we're building support infrastructure for you, concerned AI insiders. We're leading #PublishYourPolicies (with 35+ global signatories), offering Third Opinion…
AI insiders, help is here at every stage of your journey. Our founder joined @labenz on @CogRev_Podcast to discuss how we're building support infrastructure for you, concerned AI insiders. We're leading #PublishYourPolicies (with 35+ global signatories), offering Third Opinion…
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Karl Koch, founder of the @AIWI_Official, joins @labenz on @CogRev_Podcast to discuss building support systems for concerned AI insiders. They discuss: * The "Third Opinion" program helping whistleblowers get expert advice anonymously * Why 100% of surveyed AI insiders support…
@lukaspet and @axelbacklund of @andonlabs join @labenz on @CogRev_Podcast to discuss their experiments with AI-controlled vending machines—a testing ground for safe autonomous organizations without humans in the loop. They explore: * Why fully autonomous systems might beat…
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@deanbwall is another good get by @labenz and @CogRev_Podcast which will be on my playlist this weekend.
@deanbwall is another good get by @labenz and @CogRev_Podcast which will be on my playlist this weekend.
What a podcast from @deanwball -most accurate description of life in centre of govt I’ve heard -how he used LLMs to simulate interagency feedback (genius) -why he “possibly” knew more about what was happening in the labs when outside of govt than in it All that in the 1st hour!
What a podcast from @deanwball -most accurate description of life in centre of govt I’ve heard -how he used LLMs to simulate interagency feedback (genius) -why he “possibly” knew more about what was happening in the labs when outside of govt than in it All that in the 1st hour!
My notes on the podcast with @labenz and @deanwball, US AI Action Plan author. 👇🇺🇸🤖
My notes on the podcast with @labenz and @deanwball, US AI Action Plan author. 👇🇺🇸🤖 https://t.co/qvtzoNRSdS
I met @deanwball just before he launched his Substack in Jan '24 – I was immediately impressed with his thinking, and I've also come to trust his character. Dean proves it's NOT TOO LATE for smart, high-integrity people to help shape AI development Get inspired & get involved!
I met @deanwball just before he launched his Substack in Jan '24 – I was immediately impressed with his thinking, and I've also come to trust his character. Dean proves it's NOT TOO LATE for smart, high-integrity people to help shape AI development Get inspired & get involved!
NEW: Fresh from the White House, @deanwball joins @labenz on @cogrev to break down his role crafting Trump's AI Action Plan—a"deeply positive sum document to come out of a city that is usually quite zero sum" They discuss: * A rare inside look at AI policy-making at the highest…
Fortunately the extra small runs large! @AiDigest_
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