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.
The Science and Ethics of Coevolving with AI
K1st World AI Conference · 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.
Substrate-Dependent Mathematics Hypothesis
Platonic Space Symposium · 2025
An exploration of how cognition, abstraction, and even mathematics may depend on the physical substrates that implement them.
The State of AI: Why Compassion Can’t Wait
Osaka Expo, U.S. Pavilion · 2025
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.
How to Communicate with Alien Minds
Tokyo AI · 2024
On communication across radically different forms of intelligence — biological, artificial, and hybrid — and what this may mean for the long-term future of AI and artificial life.
Hybrid Beings
Human Energy / N2 Conference · 2024
A conversation on hybrid forms of agency and life, and how emerging systems may blur conventional boundaries between the biological and the artificial.
AI & Consciousness
Consciousness Talks · with Janet Wiles · 2023
A conversation at the intersection of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the scientific study of consciousness.
The Future of Artificial Life
Last Monkey Standing Feature Interview · 2025
A broader interview touching on the next steps of Artificial Life, but also science, institutions, industry, life in Japan, and the wider arc of my work.
Bracketing and Immersion
CLEA / Vrije Universiteit Brussel Invited Talk · with Yuko Ishihara · 2023
A more philosophical talk on play, immersion, and the movement between worlds in living, distributed, and learning systems.
The New University of the Future
Learning Planet Festival Special Session Extract · 2021
A short public extract in which I introduce Cross Labs and a new model of the university.
How to Design Open-Ended Collective Intelligence?
FQxI Conference · 2019 / publicly available conference video listing
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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