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Nathan Labenz is a technology entrepreneur and distinguished artificial intelligence analyst.
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Oct 2025 — Oct 2026
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Prakash NarayananCreator
4 shared articlesNicholas CarliniResearcher
2 shared articlesAnastasios AngelopoulosFounder
2 shared articlesSagar VazeEngineer
2 shared articlesSamvit RamadurgamFounder
2 shared articlesMichael FreemanResearcher
2 shared articlesDebo OlaosebikanFounder
2 shared articlesJoel PreddResearcher
2 shared articlesBen BoudreauxResearcher
2 shared articlesMatt ChessenResearcher
2 shared articlesEliezer YudkowskyResearcher
2 shared articlesDario AmodeiFounder
2 shared articlesDan HendrycksResearcher
2 shared articlesAlan ChanResearcher
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BERT is Just a Single Text Diffusion Step
Nathan Labenz's BloganalysisneutralOct 21, 2025
Discrete language diffusion models are a generalization of BERT's masked language modeling, suggesting BERT-like encoders can be finetuned to perform text generation through a diffusion process.
“Author of "BERT is Just a Single Text Diffusion Step" in Nathan Labenz's Blog”
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AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New Hacks
The Cognitive RevolutioncautiousOct 31, 2026
“Co-hosts the AI:AM podcast and leads discussion on Exponential Time Hypothesis, AI safety, open model restrictions, and concentration of power.”
Freedom of Action: America's ASI Strategy, w/ RAND's Joel Predd, Ben Boudreaux & Matt Chessen
The Cognitive RevolutioncautiousOct 28, 2026
“Podcast host and interviewer discussing AI strategy, governance, and superintelligence with RAND researchers.”
AI:AM Highlights: Clean Neurons, Black October, the GPU Credit Crunch, and Buying the Supply Chain
The Cognitive RevolutioncautiousOct 24, 2026
“Co-hosts AI:AM podcast and leads discussion on AI development pace with guests; building Help Peer project for personal AI agents to cooperate.”
AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs
The Cognitive RevolutioncautiousOct 17, 2026
“Nathan Labenz hosts the podcast and interviews guests on AI topics including agents, safety, and biology.”
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
The Cognitive RevolutioncautiousOct 14, 2026
“Nathan Labenz hosts and conducts the interview with Alan Chan about AI agent governance.”
Is AI 2027 coming true?
secondthoughts.aicautiousJun 19, 2026
“Host of The Cognitive Revolution podcast who interviewed Steve Newman about AI progress and Claude Code tools.”