Archive - Cosmos Institute

“Are you a philosophical zombie driven by Claude?”

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark in conversation with Brendan McCord

May 22 • Cosmos Institute, Brendan McCord, and Jack Clark

Radical ethical disagreement, latent reasoning, replication crises, and more

A selection of grant projects from our recent demo day

May 19 • Cosmos Institute

Authors vs. Characters: The New Class Divide

Will AI sort humanity into two kinds of people?

May 15 • Brendan McCord

On being human, and having to trust

Recommend a reading and join us in Aspen this summer

May 13 • Cosmos Institute

The five philosophical disagreements underneath every AI argument

You were seeing castles, they were seeing sand

May 8 • Alex Chalmers

AI is changing our minds. When is that a good thing?

What a new benchmark can tell us about AI influence

May 6 • Cosmos Institute

Optimization and its Discontents

If the framework you followed brought you here…

May 1 • Alex Chalmers

April 2026

The 2026 Cosmos Lecture: Jack Clark on Human Autonomy

Apply for tickets to join us on May 20th at Oxford

Apr 30 • Cosmos Institute

When Decentralization Fails

And how it succeeds

Apr 24 • Alex Chalmers

Tocqueville and Technology: Essay Contest

500 words. Win a trip to Tocqueville’s Normandy chateau to explore your ideas further.

Apr 20 • Cosmos Institute

Alignment By Default?

You Wouldn’t Paperclip Me, Would You…

Apr 17 • Harry Law

Can Old Ideas Survive the AI Age?

Your questions answered: on philosophy, children, and China

Apr 15 • Brendan McCord

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