The clearest public introduction to the central argument of The Cognitive Revolution: AI is not simply automating tasks. It is reorganizing how intelligence is produced, distributed, and governed.
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Selected talks and audio adaptations from the world of The Cognitive Revolution.
Begin with the flagship keynote, then explore focused audio adaptations of the book, essays, and published work.
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The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Is Reorganizing Intelligence, Expertise, and Institutions
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Selected Audio Adaptations
These episodes adapt Jiajie Zhang’s published work into a listening format. Some were produced with AI and are identified accordingly.
Start here: the book in audio
Cognitive Revolution: How AI Is Reorganizing Intelligence, Expertise, and Institutions
Source: The Cognitive Revolution
A podcast overview of the book.
Open in SpotifyFoundational argument
AGI Is a Category Error
Source essay: AGI Is a Category Error
Why AGI is pursuing the wrong objective, and why the future belongs to distributed intelligence rather than stand-alone machine intelligence.
Open in SpotifyGovernance and policy
Governing Distributed Intelligence
Source essay: Governing Distributed Intelligence
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.
Open in SpotifyApplication: education
Redesign Healthcare Education in the Age of AI
A podcast treatment of why education must move beyond knowledge transfer toward human–AI cognition.
Open in SpotifyApplication: medicine
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 core arguments on distributed intelligence, AGI, institutions, education, and governance.
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The major concepts and intellectual architecture behind The Cognitive Revolution.
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The complete argument about how AI is reorganizing intelligence, expertise, and institutions.
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