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AI doesn’t seek truth, people do
On the freedom to ask difficult questions
Sep 12
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Harry Law
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Write for the Cosmos Institute
We’re looking for pitches about how AI can support human flourishing
Sep 10
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Harry Law
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On Western Dynamism
America's strength comes from tension, not unity
Sep 5
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Brendan McCord
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August 2025
Is algorithmic mediation always bad for autonomy?
We make technology, and technology makes us back
Aug 29
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Harry Law
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Truth-seeking AI Accelerates: 40+ New Builders Join the Mission (August 2025 Update)
Plus: top reads for philosopher-builders and a new Editorial Lead
Aug 27
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5 Top Takeaways: AI and the Great Books
What happens to education and humanity’s greatest intellectual works with advanced AI?
Aug 19
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Introducing the First Cohort of AI x Truth-Seeking Grant Winners
Meet the 27 builders advancing open inquiry and intellectual freedom in AI
Aug 15
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Live by the Claude, Die by the Claude
A high school meme reveals deeper questions about AI deference
Aug 9
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Brendan McCord
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Reflections from Aspen Institute's Socrates Seminar
Three days of philosophical inquiry on whether AI brings a "New Enlightenment or Digital Despotism," with Cosmos and the Aspen Institute
Aug 1
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Ashley Kim
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July 2025
Philosopher–Builder Summer Reads
12 recommendations from top thinkers in the Cosmos network: featuring sci-fi classics, philosophical essays, and polymath biographies.
Jul 25
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In Defense of Self-Direction
What Tocqueville, Aristotle, and Mill understood about human autonomy
Jul 22
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Brendan McCord
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The Philosopher-Builder
The AI age demands a new kind of technologist
Jul 16
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Brendan McCord
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Kushal Kansagra
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