Agentic Artificial Intelligence & the future of humanity
"It will look like there is another species on the planet"
"What AI does today, the average person on the street would not believe..."
Agentic AI are systems designed to operate autonomously. Making decisions, pursuing goals and taking actions with minimal human intervention.
Bernardo Kastrup is founder and chief scientist of Europe's first company developing hardware for Agentic AI. This gives him unique insight into this upcoming revolution and its likely impact on humanity - a change that "is coming in our lifetime."
For now, it costs too much energy to make the most powerful AI available to the public, but that will soon change.
We will have the totality of humanity's intelligence times a few million in our pockets. Just like we have electricity everywhere, water, everywhere, Internet, everywhere. Well, superhuman intelligence everywhere. And it's around the corner.
It won't just be intelligence that is impacted. Bernardo predicts that “the amplifying effect of AI on human creativity will be so discombobulating it will look like there is another species on the planet. This will be a change like never before. And there is no walking back from this either.”
Successfully navigating this emerging world will require sober introspection, but also a commitment to being well-informed.
- Will these new systems be conscious?
- What role will humans have in this emerging world?
Bernardo is one of the few people on the planet with a PhD in both computer engineering and a PhD in philosophy, and author of more than 10 books dedicated to the subject of consciousness.
As you probably know, He is perhaps the most well-known modern proponent of metaphysical idealism - the notion that the fundamental nature of reality in consciousness. Drawing on foundational physics, neuroscience and analytic philosophy, he has reached conclusions remarkably similar to the views celebrated by ancient mystical traditions.
Which is my long way of saying, I'm thrilled to hear his thoughts on the topic, and excited to have you join.
Your comments and questions before the event are welcome, which will help shape the emerging dialogue.
8th of July
6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm CET / 1-3pm EST