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Tocqueville and Technology: the winners
In June, we gathered thinkers, builders, and investors for a weekend of lectures and salons at the Normandy château where Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America.
We offered places to the two winners of our Tocqueville and Technol...
We Gave a Village Personal AI Agents. Here's What Happened
The Agent Village Experiment was run by Edge City and Cosmos Institute, with support from Foresight Institute. The core build partner was Index Network. Technical contributors and partners included Joshua Pham, Geo, SimpleFi, World, Simocra...
AI and American Nihilism
Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church (1860)
For his 2011 book Lost in Transition, Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith conducted a series of in-depth interviews with 18-23 year-olds on culture, religion, and values. When h...
Raising Claude, Forgetting Us
This is part I in a series about Anthropic’s moral convenings, how to think about efforts to form Claude, and where that leaves us.
Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)
In late March, a Christian philosop...
Philosopher-Builder Summer Reads 2026
As we reach the height of summer, we asked ten thinkers and technologists in Cosmos’s network for some reading recommendations to enjoy in the sun.
They cover everything from fiction, through to economics, religion, political philosophy, a...
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The Academy for Philosopher-Builders
solve cooperation, use it to solve everything else
Co-founder of Anthropic. Longtime newsletter writer. I am obsessed with AI and its implications for society.
AI history and philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the Cosmos Institute
Building Edge City. Writing to share insights on that process, as well as thoughts on tech, meaning, and culture ☀️
The Academy for Philosopher-Builders (www.cosmos-institute.org)
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Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University Lab: https://mintresearch.org
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