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The Cognitive Revolution
AI is not merely a tool. It is changing where cognition happens—and forcing us to redesign learning, work, discovery, leadership, and institutions around human-AI systems.
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A public collection of videos, recorded talks, and podcast episodes
Start with the featured video, then move through public talks, recorded presentations, YouTube videos, and podcast episodes on distributed intelligence, expertise, education, medicine, and institutional redesign.
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The same framework, in public media formats
Use this page to move beyond the written archive. The video collection highlights public talks and short recorded presentations. The podcast collection gathers audio episodes that extend major essays and arguments from the site.
Together they offer another way into the same core questions: how AI is reorganizing intelligence, how expertise is changing, and what institutions must redesign next.
Featured video
The Cognitive Revolution
This featured video is the clearest public introduction to The Cognitive Revolution: the argument that AI is not simply automating tasks, but reorganizing intelligence, expertise, education, science, leadership, and institutions.
The talk is for leaders and executives redesigning organizations; parents preparing their children for an AI-native future; K–12 and college students choosing their path; graduate and professional students thinking about their careers; researchers rethinking about scholarship and discovery; young and established professionals navigating career change; and anyone who wants to understand what is happening today.
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Public talks and recorded presentations
Most important video
The Cognitive Revolution
This featured video is the clearest public introduction to The Cognitive Revolution: the argument that AI is not simply automating tasks, but reorganizing intelligence, expertise, education, science, leadership, and institutions.
Watch on YouTube →Beyond the CV - Jiajie Zhang
An unconventional introduction about Jiajie Zhang.
Watch on YouTube →The Brain Is Now Open Source
A public talk on AI-native institutions and the redesign of intelligence across health, education, and organizational systems.
Watch on YouTube →Something AI Can Never Do - A Father's Wedding Speech
What AI can never do is live a lifetime of experience, emotion, and meaning—and that is what gave the speech at my daughter’s wedding its true humanity
Watch on YouTube →Podcast collection
Audio episodes that extend the written work
These episodes translate essays and published arguments into listenable form while staying close to the core framework.
AGI Is a Category Error: Intelligence Has Already Escaped the Human Mind
Why AGI is pursuing the wrong objective, and why the future belongs to distributed intelligence rather than stand-alone machine intelligence.
Listen on Spotify →Governing Distributed Intelligence: AI Policy Must Move from Tools to Institutions
Why the future of AI policy may depend less on regulating models and more on building the institutions that can effectively govern human-AI systems..
Listen on Spotify →Cognitive Revolution - How AI is Reorganizing Intelligence, Expertise, and Institutions
A podcast overview of the book.
Listen on Spotify →The Human Brain Is Now Open Source
An audio extension of the argument that intelligence is becoming shareable, scalable, and institution-level.
Listen on Spotify →Redesign Healthcare Education in the Age of AI
A podcast treatment of why education must move beyond knowledge transfer toward human–AI cognition.
Listen on Spotify →AI Is Bringing Back Medical Generalists
An episode on how integrated AI systems may reverse fragmentation and reshape medical expertise.
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The Cognitive Revolution
Start with the big-picture arguments about AI as a reorganization of intelligence.
Distributed Intelligence
Follow how cognition is shifting across people, models, workflows, and institutions.
Expertise and Education
Explore what changes when judgment, orchestration, and evaluation matter more than recall alone.
Medicine and Institutions
See how these ideas apply to professional work, organizational design, and institutional transformation.