HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND CHANGE WHEN IT IS ALSO CHANGING THOSE WHO SEEK TO UNDERSTAND IT?
Intelligent technologies do not merely transform our environment. They increasingly shape the ways we attend, know, understand, judge, decide, and act. Understanding this change also requires examining the conditions from which we make sense of it, and developing our capacity to discern and participate responsibly in the transformations underway.
THINKLABS
EXPLORATION & RESEARCH INDEX
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INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Intelligent Systems and Converging Technologies
Responds to: What is emerging?
Seeks to understand how advances in artificial intelligence and its convergence with other technologies are generating new capabilities, and how these developments are transforming the ways we know, decide, work, and organize social life.
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HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Human Cognition and Interaction with Intelligent Systems
Responds to: What is happening to us?
Focuses on understanding how interaction with intelligent systems is transforming the ways we pay attention, learn, understand, judge, decide, and act. It examines both the new cognitive capacities this interaction may enable and the risks of dependence, delegation, and loss of agency.
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INTELLIGENT SOCIETY
Intelligent Society and Civilizational Change
Responds to: What are we becoming collectively?
Examines how the expansion of intelligent systems is transforming knowledge, work, the economy, institutions, and everyday life. It explores the new forms of social organization that emerge as algorithmic intelligence becomes an increasingly pervasive capacity across society.
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HUMAN AGENCY AND FUTURES
Human Agency, Critical Judgment, and Responsible Futures
Responds to: Who do we want to become, and how can we discern and participate intelligently, creatively, and responsibly in the changes underway?
Studies the human capacities needed to critically understand the transformations underway, exercise judgment and responsible autonomy in relation to intelligent systems, and participate creatively in the construction of shared futures. It explores how to strengthen human agency, expand our capabilities, sustain our ability to shape the futures we inhabit, and orient technological change toward human flourishing, solidarity, and the common good.
PROGRAMS
SEMINARS · COURSES · WORKSHOPS · LECTURES
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE · INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS · CIVILIZATIONAL CHANGE
THE DECLINE OF JUDGMENT IN ALGORITHMIC CIVILIZATION
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE × INTELLIGENT SOCIETY
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COGNITIVE COLONIALISM
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE × INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS × INTELLIGENT SOCIETY
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ARE WE LIVING THROUGH A CIVILIZATIONAL CHANGE?
INTELLIGENT SOCIETY
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RELATIONALITY
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE × INTELLIGENT SOCIETY × HUMAN AGENCY & FUTURES
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WHAT ARE EXTENDED COGNITIVE SYSTEMS? THINKING-WITH-AI
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE × INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
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EXPLORE
Research, ideas, and field notes for understanding the transformations of human intelligence and the intelligent society.
FIELD NOTE · INTELLIGENT SOCIETY
NOV 2026
ARE WE ENTERING AN INTELLIGENT SOCIETY?
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond its role as an isolated tool and becoming a pervasive capability across knowledge, work, institutions, and everyday life. What kind of transformation are we witnessing?
NOV 2026
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WHAT IS COSMOPOLIS LAB — AND WHAT DOES IT DO?
COSMOPOLIS LAB is an independent platform for research, learning, and collaboration dedicated to understanding the transformations of human intelligence and society as intelligent systems and converging technologies expand. We examine these changes at the intersection of technology, cognition, and civilization, and develop frameworks, learning experiences, and programs that strengthen our capacity to understand them and participate intelligently in shaping their direction.
NETWORKS & COLLABORATION
Conversations & Visits
In-person and online exchanges with researchers, centers, and communities to share perspectives, develop questions, and open new possibilities for collaboration.
Cosmopolis Lab is developing as an open, distributed platform for research, dialogue, and learning. We build relationships with researchers, universities, centers, and communities across different contexts to broaden the perspectives from which we understand ongoing transformations and to develop joint projects.
Collaborative Research
Joint research, publications, and projects developed around the fields explored by our ThinkLabs.
International Projects & Networks
Participation in initiatives and networks that connect perspectives, disciplines, and cultural contexts to investigate the transformations shaping the emerging intelligent society.
Collaborative Programs
Seminars, courses, workshops, and conversations developed with researchers, universities, and organizations in in-person, online, and hybrid formats.