Of Swarms and Sand Gods
Alignment in a multi-agent world
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Reading List: AI and the Ownership of Judgment
Offloading versus enfeeblement
Tocqueville and Technology: the winners
Value-expanding education and the conditions of formation
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
AI and American Nihilism
After the afterglow
Raising Claude, Forgetting Us
Anthropic consulted priests and rabbis to form Claude's character. This is what happens to ours.
Philosopher-Builder Summer Reads 2026
Recommendations from Rebecca Lowe, Eli Dourado, Henry Shevlin, Ben Bariach, Mat Dryhurst and others in the Cosmos network
Are Frontier Models Good at Ethics?
The Construction of Moral Character in LLMs
Can AI Make Scientific Breakthroughs?
Tacit Knowledge is Essential for Discovery
Greatness and the Machine
How to avoid the Tocquevillian Singularity
Cosmos Grants are back!
Prototype AI for human autonomy and truth-seeking
The Division of Judgment
AI agents could give strangers thick coordination where prices were thin
Introducing the Cosmos Research Group
New Senior Research Fellows to help build the philosophical foundations for AI
Politics Cannot be Simulated
There’s more to democracy than decision-making
What Will You Build For: Matt Clifford
His inspirations from philosophy, economics, sci-fi, and the British constitution
Coasean bargaining in the real world
Apply for a free ticket to join Edge Esmeralda 2026
Explore the future, or retreat from the present
Jack Clark delivers the 2026 Cosmos Lecture
“Are you a philosophical zombie driven by Claude?”
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark in conversation with Brendan McCord
Radical ethical disagreement, latent reasoning, replication crises, and more
A selection of grant projects from our recent demo day
Authors vs. Characters: The New Class Divide
Will AI sort humanity into two kinds of people?
On being human, and having to trust
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