Archive - Cosmos Institute

Of Swarms and Sand Gods

Alignment in a multi-agent world

Aug 21 • Cosmos Institute and Séb Krier

Reading List: AI and the Ownership of Judgment

Offloading versus enfeeblement

Aug 14 • Cosmos Institute

Tocqueville and Technology: the winners

Value-expanding education and the conditions of formation

Aug 7 • Cosmos Institute

July 2026

We Gave a Village Personal AI Agents. Here's What Happened

A real-world test of what happens when multiplayer AI becomes part of community life

Jul 31 • Timour Kosters, Harry Law, and Ivan Vendrov

AI and American Nihilism

After the afterglow

Jul 24 • Alex Chalmers

Raising Claude, Forgetting Us

Anthropic consulted priests and rabbis to form Claude's character. This is what happens to ours.

Jul 17 • Brendan McCord

Philosopher-Builder Summer Reads 2026

Recommendations from Rebecca Lowe, Eli Dourado, Henry Shevlin, Ben Bariach, Mat Dryhurst and others in the Cosmos network

Jul 15 • Cosmos Institute

Are Frontier Models Good at Ethics?

The Construction of Moral Character in LLMs

Jul 10 • Cosmos Institute and Seth Lazar

Can AI Make Scientific Breakthroughs?

Tacit Knowledge is Essential for Discovery

Jul 3 • Cosmos Institute

June 2026

Greatness and the Machine

How to avoid the Tocquevillian Singularity

Jun 26 • Brendan McCord

Cosmos Grants are back!

Prototype AI for human autonomy and truth-seeking

Jun 24 • Cosmos Institute

The Division of Judgment

AI agents could give strangers thick coordination where prices were thin

Jun 19 • Brendan McCord

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