Vote on values, forecast on facts, and firewall the whole thing from money. This Future Day 2026 discussion starts with the question: who gets to decide what happens next – and by what mechanisms. Economist Robin Hanson argues that many of today’s failures are downstream of “pretty broken systems of governance”, and that we’ve “hardly…
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…
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 will tackle an uncomfortable possibility: not that AI will fool us into thinking it’s human – but that we may come to…
Danica Dillion is a welcome contribution to Future Day 2026! is a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Dr. Mirta Galesic at Complexity Science Hub and Dr. Kurt Gray in the Deepest Beliefs Lab at The Ohio State University. Previously, she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UNC at Chapel Hill. Synopsis People have long doubted…
We are incredibly honored to welcome Christine Peterson to speak at Future Day 2026, a woman who has spent decades looking over the horizon to see the future before it arrives. Christine is the Co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Foresight Institute and is famously credited with coining the term ‘Open Source‘ – a concept…
We are often told that the future of our planet is a choice between two extremes. But according to Lev Lafayette, the reality lies in the complex interaction of technology, policy, and human behaviour. Lev has spent his career managing complex systems – both in the world of IT and in the realm of social…
It’s an enormous pleasure to have Angela Livingstone present for us at Future Day 2026! Very much looking forward to this presentation. As we look toward the horizon of Future Day 2026, one of the most pressing questions isn’t just what AI can do, but what it should be to us. We are thrilled to…
We were promised a Star Trek future – a world of abundance, universal health, and the collective exploration of the stars. Instead, we got a subscription-model dystopia. Somewhere between the first moon landing and the rise of the Silicon Valley ‘Founder-Gods’, the future stopped looking like it belonged to humanity and started belonging to a…
As part of Future Day 2026, we are hosting a conversation that makes standard geopolitical tensions look like a playground dispute. We’re bringing together two of the most provocative minds in AGI – Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis (with Adam Ford as moderator/provocateur) – to tackle the ultimate existential question: Is an Artilect War…
What if our consciousness is not a ‘thing’ we have, but a simulation our brain runs to make sense of itself? At our upcoming conference, we are thrilled to host Joscha Bach at Future Day 2026 – he is a leading voice in cognitive architectures and the founding director of the California Institute for Machine…