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Announcing 80 New Cosmos Grantees
Today, we’re delighted to unveil our largest cohort of Cosmos grantees to-date, working to advance human autonomy and truth-seeking.
The projects range from wearable AI for memory and cryptographic tools for scientific collaboration to a b...
Liberal Institutions Are Dead
George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley (1856)
Liberal institutions promise broad access in principle and have remained viable because exercising those rights demands time and effort. Applying, appealing, objecting, requesting, complaining, a...
What Does It Mean To Be Human, Now?
Almost everything we believe about rights, dignity, the correct way to treat others, and the idea of a good life presupposes a stable notion of what constitutes a human being. Until recently, there were certain markers of humanity that seem...
Of Swarms and Sand Gods
This is a guest essay from Séb Krier, a specialist in frontier AI governance and a Cosmos Senior Research Fellow.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effects of Good Government in the Countryside (1338)
A lot of classic AI safety thinking assumed a sing...
Reading List: AI and the Ownership of Judgment
The Judgment of Paris (1645) by Claude Lorrain
AI is already fueling a historic expansion in human agency. It’s never been easier to increase our output or to solve harder problems. But just as AI enables us to act more, it also creates si...
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