Rethinking Intelligence, Empathy, and Hybrid Minds
A broad introduction to thinking on intelligence across biological, artificial, and hybrid substrates, and on the possibility of new paradigms beyond current AI systems.
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Public talks and interviews on Artificial Life, hybrid cognition, empathic AI, consciousness, and the future of intelligent systems.
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The Science and Ethics of Coevolving with AI
A conversation on empathic AI, coevolution between humans and intelligent systems, and the scientific and ethical questions raised by increasingly adaptive forms of machine intelligence.
Watch recordingSubstrate-Dependent Mathematics Hypothesis
An exploration of how cognition, abstraction, and even mathematics may depend on the physical substrates that implement them.
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The State of AI: Why Compassion Can’t Wait
On where AI stands today, the limits of current paradigms, and why more humane intelligence architectures will matter for the next phase of AI development.
Watch recordingHow to Communicate with Alien Minds
On communication across radically different forms of intelligence and what this may mean for the long-term future of AI and artificial life.
Watch recordingHybrid Beings
A conversation on hybrid forms of agency and life, and how emerging systems may blur conventional boundaries between the biological and the artificial.
Watch recordingAI & Consciousness
A conversation at the intersection of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the scientific study of consciousness.
Watch recordingThe Future of Artificial Life
A broader interview touching on the next steps of Artificial Life, science, institutions, industry, life in Japan, and the wider arc of the work.
Watch recordingBracketing and Immersion
A philosophical talk on play, immersion, and the movement between worlds in living, distributed, and learning systems.
Watch recordingThe New University of the Future
A short public extract introducing Cross Labs and a new model of the university.
Watch recordingHow to Design Open-Ended Collective Intelligence?
An early articulation of ideas around open-ended intelligence and collective cognition that later informed work on artificial collective intelligence.
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