Nick Beckstead – The Importance of the Far Future
Nick Beckstead is the author of the influential paper ‘On the overwhelming importance of shaping the far future‘.
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Eyal Aharoni – Breaking the Moral Turing Test: Studies of human attribution and deference to AI moral judgment and decision-making
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Eyal Aharoni (Georgia State University) to the Future Day 2026 stage to discuss one of the most provocative frontiers in technology: the automation of moral judgement. He tackles an uncomfortable possibility: not that AI will fool us into thinking it’s human – but that we may come to prefer…
On Consciousness, Qualia, Valence & Intelligence with Mike Johnson
Andrés Gómez Emilsson joined in to add very insightful questions for a 3 part interview series with Mike Johnson, covering the relationship of metaphysics to qualia/consciousness/hedonic valence, and defining their terms, whether panpsychism matters, increasing sensitivity to bliss, valence variance, Effective Altruism, cause prioritization, and the importance of consciousness/valence research . Andrés Gómez Emilsson interviews…
Nick Bostrom on the Simulation Argument
This interview was conduced late 2012 at the offices of the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford University at around the time of the Winter Intelligence conference. The simulation argument is continuing to attract a great deal of attention. I regret that I cannot usually respond to individual queries about the argument. Are you living…
Effective Policy Advocacy – Interview with Greg Sadler
Greg Sadler, the CEO of Good Ancestors Policy, is working to help members of communities in Australia advocate for the positions that they think are important and the policies that they value the most. Greg has over 10 years’ experience in the Australian Public Service, including at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,…
Can AI Help Us Discover Real Moral Structure? A Critical Realist Hunch
I recently read about Critical Realism (CR), it’s interesting – I like a lot of it, though I’m not sure I fully buy the layered picture with latent causal structure at the bottom, the “actual” layer floating above that, and the “empirical” layer on top. So CR back against a certain kind of reductive physicalism…
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson – Path Dependence in Consciousness Science
How our understanding of valence, qualia, and binding determines the long-term future Most people think the future will be shaped by AI or energy. Andrés Gómez Emilsson argues it will be shaped by how we define feeling. As a co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute (QRI), Andrés has spent years pioneering a “topological” approach to…
