Tue September 16, 2025

What is Intelligence?

at Cowell Theater (7pm)
Blaise Agüera y Arcas' research explores how self-reproduction -- and thus life -- is inherently computational.

Mix & mingle over drinks & small bites with other attendees at our pre & post-show gathering in the re-imagined Cowell Theater Lobby!

In What is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP, Fellow and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, explores what intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Encompassing decades of theory, existing literature, and recent artificial life experiments, Agüera y Arcas' research argues that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.

This talk is presented as part of a larger project on What is Intelligence?, including a printed book alongside experimental formats which challenge the conventions of academic publishing. It is the inaugural collaborative work of Antikythera, a think tank on the philosophy of technology, and MIT Press, a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas' research explores how self-reproduction -- and thus life -- is inherently computational.

Mix & mingle over drinks & small bites with other attendees at our pre & post-show gathering in the re-imagined Cowell Theater Lobby!

In What is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP, Fellow and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, explores what intelligence really is, and how AI's emergence is a natural consequence of evolution. Encompassing decades of theory, existing literature, and recent artificial life experiments, Agüera y Arcas' research argues that certain modern AI systems do indeed have a claim to intelligence, consciousness, and free will.

This talk is presented as part of a larger project on What is Intelligence?, including a printed book alongside experimental formats which challenge the conventions of academic publishing. It is the inaugural collaborative work of Antikythera, a think tank on the philosophy of technology, and MIT Press, a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design.
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