Helen 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.

How do we stay connected and matter to each other when machines offer easy intimacy?

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.

An astrobiologist who moves between exoplanets, the origins of life, our cosmic significance and the co-evolution of humans and their data, on what stays deeply human in the act of finding out.

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

Irreducible work is the work that develops the person doing it, and the IRX is a measure of how much of it any occupation contains.

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.