Past events

    LIC 3.03, VUB, Campus Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels , Belgium & Online   This is in the new “ Learning and Innovation Center ” (LIC) building in between the VUB and ULB campuses, on the 3rd floor.

The Enlightenment gave humanity modern science, but left unresolved how to integrate objective knowledge with consciousness, culture, and meaning. This talk introduces the Tree of Knowledge System — a framework developed by Dr.

Large language models excel at many reasoning tasks but still struggle to reliably distinguish causation from correlation.

In this presentation, Carlos Arleo challenges the industry standard of AI alignment, arguing that current methods—which treat safety as a behavioral training problem—only produce superficial conformity.

Venue:CLEA House, Rue de la Strategie 33, 1160 - 1st Floor Date: 10-12 February 2026 Time: 9:00am to 18:00 pm Workshop final report Substack post Selected Pictures See the program below to download talks' slides The Centre Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,

The modern university stands at a crossroads. Once conceived as a sanctuary for disinterested knowledge and philosophical inquiry, it is increasingly shaped by external funding models that prioritize market utility, short-term impact, and commercial applicability.

Imagine an AI that scans your biology and keeps you so well that you never need a doctor. Or an AI that follows your thinking patterns and offers insights so precisely timed that nobody ever needs a school again.

By Asma Derja (Ethical AI Alliance): This talk argues that AI has become a human rights issue. The focus is not only on failures at deployment but on harms that emerge at every stage of the value chain.

Deniz Sarikaya is our October speaker at the AI and Value series he will discuss how categories that influence alignment between humans can inform about the categories that should be controlled to improve on the AI alignment problem when creating large data sets to be used by supervised and unsuperv...

See program in ALIFE conference website for logistics Oct 6th,  Room #4D; Sangyo-Kaikan Hall at the Kyoto Keizai Center, Kyoto  9:00-12:30 (Japan time) Workshop Overview This workshop, addresses one of the most profound puzzles in complexity science and artificial life: How do goal-d...

In this talk, Parham Pourdavood recasts LLMs as cultural “DNA”: semiotic substrates that compress human expression and become meaningful only through human reinterpretation, creating a recursive creativity loop.

Leo Apostel (1925–1995) was a Belgian logician-philosopher and pioneer of interdisciplinary worldviews who would have turned 100 this year.