Tag: COSM 2026

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.

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News
Date
October 25, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Religion

Tagged
Bret Swanson, COSM 2026, Doug Smith, Featured, George Gilder, Gloo, Maria Deutscher, Mark Albertson, Pat Gelsinger, UnIntelligence (book 2026)}

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} _{News
October 25, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Religion}

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

Digital representation of glowing human brain with neural network connections on dark background.

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News
Date
October 23, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
A Certain Ambiguity (2007), Computational theory of mind, COSM 2026, Emergent Mind (book 2025), Featured, Gaurav Suri, Jay Richards, Michael Egnor, Walter Myers III}

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} _{News
October 23, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

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.

Crystal ball with dollar signs inside, symbolizing financial forecasting of value and price trends

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News
Date
October 20, 2026

Categorized
Business and Finance, Economics

Tagged
COSM 2026, David Bahnsen, Featured, Full Time (book 2024), US economy}

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} _{News
October 20, 2026

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Business and Finance, Economics}

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

robotics engineer in an R&D lab performs diagnostics on an AI-driven collaborative robot (cobot). She is inspecting the hardware and system sensors.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 16, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Work

Tagged
AI and employment, Andrew Mayne, COSM 2026, Elon Musk on AI and jobs}

At COSM: AI Developer Predicts Jobs Boom — for Humans

_{Elon Musk thinks AI will produce mass unemployment. Chatbot developer Andrew Mayne predicts a jobs boom instead. Who's right?} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 16, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Work}

Mayne argues that there will always be more demand for people to do things as prosperity grows. Historically, that is correct.

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

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News
Date
October 13, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Security

Tagged
Andrea Vallone, Andrew Mayne, COSM 2026, Elon Musk (jackass comment), Faruk Imamovic, Foundation for American Innovation, Futurist, Jan Leike, Josh Achiam, Maxwell Zeff, Miles Brundage, OpenAI, Steven Adler}

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} _{News
October 13, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Computer Security}

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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News
Date
October 6, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Human exceptionalism, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
COSM 2026, Mind Over Machine (forthcoming), Non-Computable You (Discovery Institute 2022), Robert J. Marks}

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} _{News
October 6, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Human exceptionalism, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

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