Past events

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.

In this talk, Emanuele Barreca shows how fusing space and art - combining Earth-observation data with ancient perspectives - can drive transformational, experiential learning and public engagement.

We invite you to the next two-day symposium to collectively imagine the Imaginary Institute, a new initiative by the CLEA ArtScience group. Click the title to learn more!

This talk explores the hidden dynamics of AI ethics and the societal challenges amplified by technology. It calls for a deeper reckoning beyond surface debates — a return to genuine truth in a fractured world.

  About the Seminar In this talk, I will present the arguments of the central thesis of my upcoming book, The Study of Progress: First Principles on the Brink of Runaway Complexity. The systems we design, manage, and interact with become increasingly complex.

Summary: Stefan Leijnen, Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, will discuss how the troublesome relation between AI and values stem from misunderstanding the truthfulness of AI systems; then, drawing from Zen Buddhist principles of non-duality and non-decept...

With the upcoming Complex Anarchism symposium, we will be exploring the intersection between anarchism and complexity science.

The next CLEA AI and Values seminar on Friday, April 25, takes place within the context of the third Imaginary Institute symposium. The Friday seminar programme consists of four parts.

Consciousness is originarily not an “I think that,” but rather an “I can.”1 Probabilistic modeling has particular abilities to sense, and the capacities of these, like any form of perception, are both constrained by and flourish from the friction of their limits.