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Live from Japan! This time we had Future Day spanning 3 days – Feb 28th – March 2nd JST – Feb 27th / March 1st PST.

Why not celebrate the amazing future we are collectively creating?

Future Day 2025—where the future isn’t just discussed, but actively shaped.

Speakers & Panelists

Agenda

Note each speaker and session name is also a link – click them to find out more.

Talk/Panel/Discussion Title Participant(s)
TalkRaising GoodBots: Imbuing AI with WisdomLinda MacDonald Glenn
TalkAI, Humanity & the LongtermHugo de Garis
Discussion‘The Intelligence Explosion’James Barrat
DiscussionThe Recent Emergence of Biased, but Coherent Value Systems in AIAdam Ford
TalkAI Safety in Education: Preparing the Next Generation for Responsible AI DevelopmentPhan, Xuan Tan
TalkOur Big Oops: We Broke Humanity’s SuperpowerRobin Hanson
PanelHuman Wage Crash & UBIJames Hughes, James Newton-Thomas, Lev Lafayette, Adam Ford
TalkThe Future Virtual You: How Will Digital Twins and Afterselves Change Our Identities?James Hughes
DiscussionSingularity Salon with Ben Goertzel & Hugo deGarisBen Goertzel, Hugo deGaris
PanelGhosts in the Machine: Can AI Ever Wake Up?Ken Mogi, Ben Goertzel, Robin Hanson
TalkMetacognition in Large Language ModelsShun Yoshizawa, Ken Mogi
TalkTaking AI Welfare SeriouslyJeff Sebo

Why are nearly all our holidays focused on celebrating the past, or the cyclical processes of nature?

“Celebrating and honouring the past and the cyclical processes of nature is a valuable thing,” says Goertzel. “But in these days of rapid technological acceleration, it is our future that needs more attention, not our past.

“My hope is that Future Day can serve as a tool for helping humanity focus its attention on figuring out what kind of future it wants, and striving to bring these visions to reality.”

“The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.” — Ray Kurzweil on Future Day

“Future Day is designed to center the impossible in the public mind once a year as a temptation too delicious to resist,” says Howard Bloom, author of Global Brain.

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“A day to think ahead, before the future thinks for us!“ — Adam Ford