Selected public talks and interviews on artificial collective intelligence, hybrid cognition, artificial life, consciousness, and the future of intelligent systems. These conversations offer a window into the ideas behind my research, my institution-building work at Cross Labs, and my broader efforts to help shape the next generation of intelligent systems.
Featured Conversation
Rethinking Intelligence, Empathy, and Hybrid Minds
Interview with Victor Mulas · 2025
A broad introduction to my thinking on intelligence across biological, artificial, and hybrid substrates, and on the possibility of new paradigms beyond current AI systems.
Featured Talk
Substrate-dependent Mathematics Hypothesis
Platonic Spaces Symposium · 2025
An exploration of how cognition, abstraction, and even mathematics may depend on the physical substrates that implement them.
Featured Talk
Empathic AI: The Science and Ethics of Coevolving with AI
Aitomatic · 2023
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.
Featured Talk
How to Design Open-Ended Collective Intelligence?
FQxI Conference · 2020
An early articulation of ideas around open-ended intelligence and collective cognition that later informed my work on artificial collective intelligence.
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Dr. Olaf Witkowski 