About Robin Hanson gave the talk ‘Our Big Oops: We Broke Humanity’s Superpower’ at Future Day 2025. Abstract Humanity’s superpower is cultural evolution. Which still goes great for behaviors that can easily vary locally, like most tech and business practices. But modernity has plausibly broken our evolution of shared norms and values, as that needs…
Do LLMs have metacognition? What happens when machines begin to “think about thinking”? At Future Day 2025, we hosted an in-depth discussion on metacognition in large language models (LLMs) – with insights from researcher Shun Yoshizawa, supervised by neuroscientist Dr Ken Mogi at Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Together, we explored the current state of metacognitive…
A panel between James Hughes, James Newton-Thomas, Lev Lafayette and Adam Ford (chair) at Future Day 2025. About If AI drives human wages to the ground, should everything else crash too? Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen envisions a future where AI-induced wage collapse leads to abundance—but what about land prices, investor returns, corporate profits, and living…
About Below is the abstract for Linda Glenn’s talk at Future Day 2025. In an era where artificial intelligence increasingly shapes our world, the challenge isn’t just developing more powerful systems, but ensuring they embody the wisdom necessary for true flourishing. This presentation explores how wisdom – distinct from pure intelligence – emerges from embodied…
🧠 AI consciousness: myth, reality, or an emergent inevitability? 🧠 What is the ontological relationship between the mind and brain? 🧠 Will EMs be conscious or will they be digital zombies? Future Day 2025 Panelists: Ken Mogi, Ben Goertzel & Robin Hanson Panelists discuss the philosophical question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) could ever achieve…
About Kristian Rönn will give a presentation at Future Day 2025, discussing his insightful and timely book ‘The Darwinian Trap – The Hidden Evolutionary Forces that Shape Our World (And Threaten Our Future)’ He will discuss macroeconomics & Game theoretic Imagineering: avoiding the minefields of the tragedy of the commons in the hope that we…
Hugo de Garis will give a presentation at Future Day 2025. About Abstract: Hugo de Garis believes that too many commentators on AI are avoiding the fundamental issue: before long, machines will become vastly more intelligent than humans—potentially trillions of trillions of times more, or even beyond that. Humanity will soon face a critical decision:…
For Future Day we hosted an electrifying discussion between two of the most thought-provoking minds in AI and the Singularity: Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis. Convened by Adam Ford, this conversation was an exploration into the accelerating trajectory of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the promises and perils of AGI, as well as political and…
About For Future Day 2025, James Barrat discussed his up and coming book ‘The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything’ (Amazon link, Google Book link) which is expected to be released June 10, and also another up and coming book on AI-weapons (see video below). In a thought-provoking discussion, James Barrett, author of…
About We already can make deepfakes of ourselves and others. There is an issue of consent; ideally people should consent to have digital twins of themselves made, even if its your grandma. But if we start making digital twins of ourselves, which is already being done, they can go out and do things on our…
