Guests

Dan Klein

Scaled Cognition

1 episode on Chain of Thought

Dan Klein is the co-founder and CTO of Scaled Cognition and a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, where he leads the NLP group and won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. On Chain of Thought he explained why LLMs are plausibility engines rather than truth engines, and how his team built APT1 for under $11 million.

AI Evaluation & Reliability

• Why LLMs Are Plausibility Engines, Not Truth Engines | Dan Klein Apr 8, 2026 · Transcript