From Artificiality This Week * Our Gathering: Our Artificiality Summit 2025 will be held on October 23-25 in Bend, Oregon. The
AI agents are evolving with orchestration layers enabling modular, autonomous systems beyond traditional SaaS, reshaping workflows, labor, and software design.
David Wolpert warns AI networks may evolve beyond human math, creating unpredictable, emergent intelligence that defies control and comprehension.
Our conversations with some of the great minds at the intersection of minds meeting machines.
In this episode, we talk with Peter Sterling, the author of What is Health. Peter caught our attention with his concise and understandable description of how evolution, by optimizing for energy efficiency, has built human brains.
In this episode, we talk with Stephen Fleming, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, about his book, Know Thyself.
In this episode, we talk with Jevin West, assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, co-founder of the DataLab, director of the Center for an Informed Public and co-author of the acclaimed book, Calling Bullshit.
In this episode, we talk with Michael Bungay Stanier, coach extraordinaire and well-known author of the best selling books The Coaching Habit and The Advice Trap.
In this episode, we talk wtih visualization expert, Mollie Pettit.
We speak with Josh Lovejoy who is perhaps the most experienced out there in the field of human-centered AI design. At the time of our recording, Josh was Head of Design for Microsoft’s Ethics & Society team.
In this episode, we talk with Kate O’Neill, founder of KO Insights and author of the Tech Humanist.
In this episode, we talk with Tania Lombrozo, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology and director of the Concepts & Cognition Lab at Princeton University.
We talked with Steven Sloman, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University who, along with Philip Fernbach, popularized this idea in a book called the Knowledge Illusion.
In this episode, we have a conversation with Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and Co-Founder of Affectiva, about emotional AI, bias in AI and her new book, Girl Decoded.
In this episode we have a conversation with Renée Cummings, Founder & CEO of Urban AI, about the issues and opportunities for AI in urban settings.
In this episode, we open with a chat about Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY and what the company may be trying to learn with its AI (hint: hidden meanings) and then we move on to a great conversation with Maria Axente of PWC about ethical AI at PWC and in her non-profit work with groups like UNICEF.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
