Cosmos Institute

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The Academy for Philosopher-Builders. Building AI for human flourishing. Writing at blog.cosmos-institute.org

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Jul 16, 2025
The AI age demands a new kind of technologist: The Philosopher-Builder.
Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖
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Jul 16, 2025
Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.
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Aug 21
"Computer scientists are rediscovering a lot of political science and economics from first principles, but luckily they get to skip the bloody revolutions." Cosmos Senior Research Fellow @sebkrier on alignment as a problem of institutional design. blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/of-swarms-an…
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Aug 19
"AI is an automated rhetorician in current guise. My question is: does AI need to be an epistemic agent? Does it need to have its own desire for truth?" @Brendan_McCord, speaking at @AdamSmithHouse, on telos and truth-seeking.
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Aug 17
"You can be more effective than you've ever been and you can be less the author of your life than you've ever been at the very same time." @Brendan_McCord on AI, autonomy, and the small-souled life.
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Aug 14
AI is fueling an expansion in human agency – but are we owning judgments we increasingly did little to determine? We're sharing the reading list from our recent seminar with @Liberty_Fund, where a group of thinkers and builders debated these questions. blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/reading-list…