Past events

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.

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.