Brendan McCord

In late 2024, a viral meme captured something unsettling about our technological moment. The “Claude Boys” phenomenon began as an X post describing high school students who “live by the Claude and die by the Claude”—AI-obsessed teenagers who “carry AI on hand at all times and constantly ask it what...

Watch the Cosmos Mission Video Earlier this year, I explored the debates around AI and found two main views shaping the conversation today: Existential pessimism sees AI as an apocalyptic threat, urging us to hit the pause button. This is not only impossible in an open society but also unwise....