/ About this event
Building Superintelligence for Humanity is an intimate, dialogue-based gathering during SF Tech Week for people thinking deeply about the future of AI, human agency, and collective intelligence.
Program | 4–7 PM
4:00 — Welcome + Trust & Cognition Cognisee PBC + Matt Schutte
4:15 — Intelligence, Consciousness & Agency Fireside with Joscha Bach
4:45 — Beneficial Superintelligence Fireside with Ben Goertzel
5:15 — Collective Knowledge & Machine Representation Ben Goertzel, Jeremy Barton, Reza Farivar-Mohseni, Divya Chander Moderated by Joshua Shinavier
5:35 — Open-Endedness & Diverse Minds Hikari Sorensen + Joel Lehman
5:55 — Open Salon Dialogue between speakers and the room
6:15 — Deantoni Parks: Human Creativity + Live Performance The evening culminates with a conversation and live performance by Deantoni Parks, the extraordinary drummer-composer known for his work with The Mars Volta, André 3000, Sade, and John Cale. Parks brings the evening’s questions about creativity, improvisation, embodiment, and human intelligence to life—on stage, in real time.
7:00 — Close
Speakers
- Joscha Bach — Cognitive scientist and AI researcher; creator of the MicroPsi cognitive architecture. - Ben Goertzel — CEO and Chief Scientist of SingularityNET, CEO of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, and one of the pioneers of AGI research. - Hikari Sorensen — Machine consciousness researcher and co-author of CIMC’s research program. - Joel Lehman — AI researcher, co-inventor of novelty search, and co-author of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. - Jeremy Barton — Researcher and technologist working on atomically precise manufacturing. - Reza Farivar-Mohseni — Canada Research Chair in Integrative Neuroscience and professor at McGill University. - Divya Chander — Neuroscientist studying consciousness; founder of Lucidify and Chair of Neuroscience at Singularity University. - Joshua Shinavier — Graph computing researcher and co-creator of Apache TinkerPop. - Matt Schutte — Co-founder of Holochain, focused on agent-centric distributed systems and collective intelligence. - Deantoni Parks — Drummer, composer, and experimental musician known for work with The Mars Volta, André 3000, Sade, and John Cale. - Ahmer Inam — Founder and CEO of Cognisee PBC; 30+ years in AI, from expert systems to frontier model training and RLHF to Artificial Collective Intelligence.
This is a continuation of the dialog that started on May 18 & 19th at Harvard and the California Institute for Machine Consciousness, and again at Harvard during #BOSTechWeek on May 26th, with these researchers: https://superintelligenceforhumanity.org/
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
