Benjamin Bratton is a philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at the University of California, San Diego. Through the lens of planetary computation, his work establishes new philosophical frameworks for interpreting the past, present and future co-evolution of life, culture, and technology. He is Director of Antikythera, a think-tank researching the future of planetary computation based at the Berggruen Institute. Beginning in 2024, Bratton is Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google’s Paradigms of Intelligence group which conducts fundamental research on the artificialization of intelligence, from neuromorphic chip and algorithm design to modeling societies of billions of virtual agents.
Summit 2025
Thursday ·
8:00pm
We gather some of today’s most original thinkers to open the field of conversation. Each brings a different lens — plural intelligences, collective wisdom, philosophical rupture, planetary scale, and emergent meaning. Together, they won’t offer conclusions but provocations, setting the stage for the Summit as a space to ask not only what intelligence is, but how we want to live with it — me, we, and us.
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Saturday ·
5:00pm
What if we think of intelligence as distributed across the planet, biologically and technically? Benjamin Bratton reframes AI within ecological and geopolitical systems, showing how synthetic cognition, climate, and computation intertwine. A closing keynote that asks us to see planetary intelligence not as metaphor, but as the scale at which our futures will be decided.
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