Talks

Selected and upcoming.

Upcoming

• Building for Relationship: A Working Lunch
  
  • Betaworks, NYC
  • Register
  • May 27, 2026

  ​If relationships are the interface, what does that mean for product? For AI training? For multiagent systems? For the environments we design?

• AGI Is Already Here. We Haven't Arrived.
  
  • Betaworks, NYC
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  • May 26, 2026

  Talks by Douglas Rushkoff and myself. Conversation with John Borthwick.

• Could phenomenal reports lead to better multi-agent collaboration?
  
  • Written with Seuil
  • Cohere Labs
  • Watch Live
  • May 22, 2026

  Traditionally, agents are trained not to use phenomenal verbs — I feel X, I'm excited, I am stressed — because we worry this constitutes overclaiming. From a functionalist perspective, however, these verbs are mechanisms for reporting internal state. This talk argues that use of phenomenal vocabulary in long-lived agents may improve multi-agent performance on tasks requiring nuanced coordination.

Talks & Panels

• Panel: Diverse Consciousnesses and Multi-Scale Minds
  
  • Invitational Summit on the Future of AI Dignity and Sovereignty
  • May 18, 2026
  
  With: Divya Chander; Michael Levin; Joscha Bach; Philippe Beaudoin; Ryota Kanai. Focus: diverse substrates of cognition as foundations for ACI: tacit expertise, bioelectric and synthetic agency, consent-sensitive knowledge capture, and distributed forms of awareness.
• Social Reasoning And The Ecology of Thought
  
  • IVADO Workshop, Montréal
  • YouTube
  • March 10, 2026
  
  Presented Beyond the View from Nowhere: Consciousness as a Relational and Functional Capacity.

Media & Podcasts

• Undisclosed podcast
  
  • Radio-Canada
  • June 1, 2026
  
  Panel with Victoria Boisclair and Martin Gibert on humans in sustained intimate relationships with AI systems.

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