LIVE

A monthly event featuring debates, talks, interviews, music and film. LIVE.

more
IAI Live January: Consciousness in the Machine

Monday 9th January - 05:00 PM GMT

IAI Live January: Consciousness in the Machine

Consciousness, AI and spacetime - in association with Closer To Truth

IAI Live is a monthly special featuring a whole host of events. An IAI Live ticket, or Premium Live subscriber access, gets you into to all the events part of IAI Live: The Headline Debate, The Solo Talk, The Opening Interview, two documentary screenings, and music. See the timetable below for details.

This January 9th, the focus lies on consciousness and AI. Billions is being invested into AI, and from protein-folding to dominating in the game of Go, what AI can do is both exciting and a little frightening. Despite theorists warning of the existential risk AI could pose, the costs of losing the AI arms race is too great for anyone to slow down their research and development.

But while the machines advance, will a consciousness emerge within them? And if so, will the flavour of that consciousness be benevolent or harrowing?

This event is produced in association with Closer To Truth.

Premium Live subscribers can join all IAI Live events for free, no need to book.

Or tickets for IAI Live January are just £4.99 and include access to all the evening’s events, screenings and performances. Book here. 

5.00pm
Will a robot steal my job?
Exclusive screening
Dokbox Cinema

5.15pm
The reality beyond spacetime
Donald Hoffman in conversation
The Lounge

6.00pm
Consciousness in the machine
Donald Hoffman, Susan Schneider, Bernardo Kastrup. Curt Jaimungal hosts.
The Arena

7.00pm
Meet The Speakers
Donald Hoffman, Susan Schneider, Bernardo Kastrup, Curt Jaimungal.
The Lounge

7.00pm
Algorithms: How they rule the world
Exclusive screening
Dokbox Cinema

7.20pm
AI consciousness cannot exist
Markus Gabriel
The Arena

5.00pm
Will a robot steal my job?
Exclusive screening
Dokbox Cinema

5.15pm
The reality beyond spacetime
Donald Hoffman in conversation
The Lounge

6.00pm
Consciousness in the machine
Donald Hoffman, Susan Schneider, Bernardo Kastrup. Curt Jaimungal hosts.
The Arena

7.00pm
Meet The Speakers
Donald Hoffman, Susan Schneider, Bernardo Kastrup, Curt Jaimungal.
The Lounge

7.00pm
Algorithms: How they rule the world
Exclusive screening
Dokbox Cinema

7.20pm
AI consciousness cannot exist
Markus Gabriel
The Arena

Join all IAI Live Events for free with a Premium Live Subscription

Subscribe

Or book a ticket for this IAI Live January only

Book Now

Markus Gabriel

Markus Gabriel an internationally acclaimed philosopher and holds the Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is the Director of the Center for Science and Thought as well as Chairman of the International Centre for Philosophy NRW.

Donald Hoffman

Anti-reality theorist

Donald Hoffman is an American cognitive psychologist working at the University of California, Irvine. He is making waves with a new theory suggesting that, instead of presenting reality as it "really is", our perception is like a desktop interface enabling us to use reality effectively.

Hoffman's book, The Case Against Reality, fleshes out the notion that we do not perceive reality objectively, and argues for a mathematical, rather than spatio-temporal, model of reality.

"One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation” – Steven Pinker

Curt Jaimungal

Trailblazing Podcaster

Curt Jaimungal is a renowned filmmaker and presenter. He is founder and host of the legendary Theories of Everything YouTube podcast that explores cutting-edge topics in physics, consciousness, free will, AI and transhumanism with some of the leading experts in the world.

Bernardo Kastrup

"The brain doesn't generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn't generate water."

Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist, philosopher, and one of the most prominent defenders of "metaphysical idealism" - the notion that the world originates in the mind, instead of being independent of our experience - in the academic world today.


Bernardo has worked as a scientist in leading laboratories across the world including CERN and the Philips Research Laboratories, and he is a regular contributor to Scientific American.
As developed in such texts as Why Materialism is Baloney and The Idea of the World, Bernardo's stance is that "the body is in mind, not mind in the body"

Susan Schneider

 

Susan Schneider is the Founding Director of the Centre for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), the former Distinguished Scholar at the Library of Congress, the author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Mind and the former NASA Chair at NASA.

Her work has been covered in venues such as the BBC, the NY Times, PBS, Forbes Magazine, the History Channel, and the Washington Post.

IAI Live January: Consciousness in the Machine

An IAI Live ticket, or Premium Live subscriber access, gets you into to all the events part of IAI Live: The Headline Debate, The Solo Talk, The Opening Interview, two documentary screenings, and music.

Premium Live subscribers can join all IAI Live events for free, no need to book.

Or tickets for IAI Live January are just £4.99 and include access to all the evening’s events, screenings and performances. Book now.