Elena Sergeeva

Michael Levin talks about the emerging field of diverse intelligence and his frameworks for recognizing and communicating with the unconventional intelligence of cells, tissues, and biological robots. This work has led to new approaches to regenerative medicine, cancer, and bioengineering, but also to new ways to understand evolution and embodied minds. He sketches out a space of possibilities — freedom of embodiment — which facilitates imagining a hopeful future of synthbiosis, in which AI is just one of a wide range of new bodies and minds. Elena Sergeeva expands on Mike’s talk on inter-kingdom communication and biotechnology interfaces, including her work building a new generation of computer chips based on live neural tissues as a future substrate for AGI.