Dave Edwards

What should we be designing for as technology becomes increasingly embedded in our bodies, decisions and everyday lives? A conversation across health, technology and design.

An Ubuntu scholar on personhood as a relation rather than a property, and what changes when you ask what a system does to relationships instead of which values it aligns to.

Two of the people who invented human-centered AI design compare notes on what the field has learned, and what it got wrong, since they wrote the first playbook.

Whether humans and machines can ever converge on shared meaning, taken up by researchers who study how conventions form between people, between species, and now between agents.

Three researchers on convention, communication and constraint, and what coordination costs when some of the participants are machines.

A designer, a writer and two researchers on what it takes to stay in the question when everything around you is optimized for answers.

Researchers working on representation, multi-agent systems and evaluation on the experiments that would move the field, and the ones nobody is running.

Jamer Hunt’s challenge from last year’s Summit, taken seriously, landed.