Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP and Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi). Pi is an organization working on basic research in AI and related fields, especially the foundations of neural computing, active inference, sociality, evolution, and Artificial Life. A frequent public speaker, he has given multiple TED talks and keynoted NeurIPS. He has also authored numerous papers, essays, op-eds, and chapters, as well as two previous books, Who Are We Now? and Ubi Sunt. His most recent book, What Is Life?, is part 1 of the larger book What Is Intelligence?, forthcoming from Antikythera and MIT Press in September 2025.
Summit 2025
Saturday ·
9:00am
What if intelligence is not a single property, but a spectrum of forms — biological, cultural, and synthetic? In his new book What Is Intelligence?, Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues for a radically plural view, showing how minds emerge through interaction, pattern, and scale. His keynote invites us to see AI not as an imitation of human thought, but as part of a larger story of diverse intelligences co-evolving with us.
Watch the session
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.
Watch the session