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Live from Australia! This time we have Future Day spanning 3 days – from March 2nd to March 4nd AEDT – from March 1st to March 5th PST.

Why not celebrate the amazing future we are collectively creating?

Future Day 2026 -> where the future isn’t just discussed, but actively shaped.

How to Join

Get tickets, signup: Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook

Watch LiveStream via:

YouTube Live, or Riverside Streaming – Day 1, Day 2, Day 3

Speakers & Panelists

Anders Sandberg
Roman Yampolskiy
Ben Goertzel
Adam Ford
Lev Lafayette
Christine Peterson
Robin Hanson
Hugo de Garis
Joscha Bach
Aubrey de Grey
James Hughes
Angela Livingstone
Danica Dillion
Eyal Aharoni Portrait
Eyal Aharoni
Andrés Gómez-Emilsson
Andrés Gómez-Emilsson

Agenda

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

Title Participant(s)
Talk AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable Roman V. Yampolskiy
Talk Living inside the cyborg leviathan: AI from the 17th century to the posthuman future Anders Sandberg
Talk The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis Joscha Bach
Discussion A conscious / living cyborg leviathan? Joscha Bach / Anders Sandberg
Talk Can AI Be More Moral than Us? Adam Ford
Talk Futarchy: Competent Governance Soon?! Robin Hanson
Discussion Futarchy vs Plutarchy: Vote on Values, or Pay to Play Robin Hanson, James Hughes
Talk How Billionaires Ruined Futurism James Hughes
Debate Is an Artilect War Inevitable? Should Humanity Become the No. 2 Species? Ben Goertzel, Hugo deGaris
Talk Critical Issues for the Global Climate Lev Lafalyette
Talk The Sun Still Exists: AI Won’t Replace Psychiatrists – But May Expose Us Angela Livingstone
Talk Breaking the Moral Turing Test: Studies of human attribution and deference to AI moral judgment and decision-making Eyal Aharoni
Talk The Ethicist in Your Pocket Danica Dillion
Talk Top 10 Longevity Strategies Today that You may Not Already Know Christine Peterson
Talk How close are we to robust mouse rejuvenation, and why does that matter? Aubrey de Grey
Talk The Science of Consciousness Shall Fork the Future Andrés Gómez Emilsson

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