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COSM 2026: Meet the Guy Who Made the Internet Seamless

Bob Metcalfe will be there to listen to offer some thoughts on where we are now and where we are headed

While working at Xerox, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing a new system, the “Ethernet,” which would enable faster and more reliable communications.

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Kids and AI: Dad Wishes He’d Said No Even to the X-box

Increasing numbers of parents and administrators are beginning to see that more AI is not a benefit in education

Young people, whose intellectual and social capacities are still developing, should not be encouraged to see chatbots as friends or therapists.

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COSM 2026: Human Creativity Is Never Going To Be Obsolete

Our panelists, who understand both AI and creativity, look forward to explaining why

Mechanization creates a disruption in which anything that can be automated will be. But creative freedom is precisely the sort of thing that can’t be automated.

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Nighttime Connection: A celestial cityscape, bathed in the soft glow of distant stars, is illuminated by a glowing Wi-Fi signal, symbolizing the ever-present connectivity of modern life.

COSM 2026: Can AI Help the Church? A CEO’s Surprising View

If you’ve used wi-fi or a USB stick, Pat Gelsinger has impacted your life. But he wants to impact it much more than that

Without up-to-date technology, Gelsinger believes, money spent on ministry could largely be wasted.

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Aggressive Atheism’s “Somewhat Different Delusion” Stalls Out

Imagine being such a poor evangelist for atheism that people credit you with helping them become Christians

Ironically, Richard Dawkins is now even being cited as instrumental in a number of Christian conversions.

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COSM 2026: Neuroscientist Argues That the Mind Is a Machine

Philosopher Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage, will have some questions for computational neuroscientist Gaurav Suri

Scientific American notes that the human mind is the hardest problem in science, with no theory emerging as persuasive. COSM will offer a reality check.

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Scientist examining innovative holographic human body scan offers cutting edge medical insights today

Most Published Research Findings Are Still False…

Says Stanford prof John Ioannidis — and AI is making it worse. A different Stanford prof offers a very ambitious idea for reform

The current director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, thinks that we need a second scientific revolution to deal with this problem.

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Secure AI agent monitoring digital systems, detecting cyber threats and protecting sensitive data. Artificial intelligence assistant provides security alerts, privacy control and business protection.

News agency notes rise in machine-driven attacks on “secure” data

At Reuters news agency, cybersecurity reporter Raphael Satter discusses how easy it is becoming to hack sites using AI agents that are programmed to do the work.

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COSM 2026: What Does the Future Hold for Your Paycheck?

Economics and investment analyst David Bahnsen will be looking at where the US economy is headed after the midterm elections

Bahnsen sees attacks on capitalism as the denigration of hopes and dreams, of job opportunities and growth.

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MIT psychologist: Beware the chatbot’s artificial empathy

When the user says “Me, me, me!”, the bot can reply, “Yes, you, you, you!” Real relationships can never be like that because both parties are real.

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If You Had To Pick a Doomsday, Which One Would It Be?

So many on offer now. Could the worst one be this: discovering that our entire universe is just a giant computer sim?

The logic flaw with the AI sim universe is that it is a more complex explanation for our existence than is necessary to account for what we perceive.

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Evil Robot Concept with Rogue AI and Malicious Code Depicting Machine Learning Risk

AI Futurist — Who Abruptly Quit OpenAI — Will Speak at COSM

For most of his career there, Josh Achiam had been a safety officer. He is one of a number of personnel involved in sensitive issues who have left

Achiam on rogue AI: The concept of ‘identity’ for a rogue AI may be much more malleable than for that of a person; it just has to be, in essence, a self-replicating idea.

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The struggle to produce better social science

Christopher J. Ferguson’s article identifies efforts at reform in social science that are worth knowing about.

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Parents enlist AI to monitor what goes on at school boards

Moms for Liberty hopes that the new system will give parents warnings even if policies are buried deep in school board output.

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Sunny Day Cell Tower Overload: Double Exposure of Crowded Infrastructure and Majestic Pines

AI and the Spectrum Crisis: What You Need to Know

The spectrum crisis is NOT a metaphor. The frequencies everyone wants are finite, the physics will not budge, and the tools to fix the problem are available

SMART Hub’s proposed way out is sharing. A radar operating near 3.1 gigahertz could sense a nearby wireless network, shift to 3.4 gigahertz, and keep its range.

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Can machines reason? Depends on what you mean by “reason”

Sasha Mudd argues that reason is the power to invent something new, intellectually but also morally.

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Computer Engineer Robert Marks Says AI will Never Match Humans

But do the sophisticated new chatbots prove Marks wrong? Turns out, he is writing a new book to address that

At COSM 2026, his message will be that overall, AI—properly handled—will be positive for humanity.

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The Doomsday Clock

Nuclear doomsday mag says, AI Doomerism is bad science

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says AI doom is overrated; implies crass business motives at play.

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