Artificiality Summit 2026 Program

Alongside examining OpenAI's 10,000-agent Navier-Stokes proof and OpenClaw, David Wolpert shows why we can't predict what AI will become without assumptions that may be wrong, why AI can't predict what we'll become either.

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.

How to build an interface that tells the truth about its own reliability, and whether users would even want one.

A provocation on building technology rooted in care, connection, expression, and accountability–software as a home-cooked meal.

Consistency has been upheld as a central principle in modern formulations of rationality. However, human inconsistency presents a more radical form of ignorance than mere uncertainty. Whereas information is the familiar antidote to uncertainty, the human inconsistency reveals a new rationality in which creativity takes center stage.

Chris has hunted more products than anyone alive. This is your chance to work with him in person and run a complete sequence, from ideation, to design sketches, to implementation, to launch plan — all in one go.

A deep discussion on creativity as a human right and how it survives this moment.

The Constitution was written for a physical world. In the digital one, much of its work has been assumed by the Terms of Service. This fireside chat explores a provocative working proposal for a Digital Constitution: a set of principles for the digital world in which we increasingly live, work, communicate, transact, and encounter AI.

From the polished lenses of Galileo's telescope to the purified silicon inside Jensen's GPUs, humans have forged instruments of truth-seeking and sense-making that challenge old belief systems and raise new power structures, built, literally, on sand. We find ourselves in an alchemical age, somewhere between magic and science, where results outpace understanding and evangelists promise omniscient intelligence and autonomous power. Join us for a facilitated discussion, bringing diverse views on religion, technology, and governance, and the curiosity to explore possible and preferable futures.

Maggie makes the case that not-knowing is a cognitive capability, then the salon works on how to protect it.

A provocation and discussion about how we might build machines that recognize when their mental representations (or ours) don't match reality.

A session on the metaphors we use to control models, the spaces they create, and what we'd design if we picked different ones.

AI is shrinking product teams while expanding what engineers, PMs, and designers each own. A former Apple and AWS product leader and startup CEO discusses why the roles aren't merging, why your prototype isn't your product, and the product operating model the best companies use to build with AI.

Discovery requires doing what your brain evolved not to do. Adam Mastroianni on our built-in barriers, and whether AI can help.

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.