To participate register at the TICKET OFFICE
Venue:
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Institut de Biologie de l' Ecole Normale Supérieure-IBENS
46 Rue d’Ulm, 7505, Paris
Room 511
9:30 -10:00 Registration and Welcome
Sapiens 5.0: Augmenting humanity to overcome the challenges of the Anthropocene
Humanity is currently pushed to its limits due to a significant number of converging physical, biological, psychological, cultural and socio-economical factors that form a complex and only partially understood the network of risk. Whereas the search for the virtuous life or Eudaemonia already started with the classics, now 2500 years later humanity is placed in a position where answers to this question will be either enforced due to calamitous circumstance or constructively shaped through human ingenuity and will. The solution to this challenge will require the decisive step of declaring homo sapiens itself as the main risk factor. Any step towards risk mitigation thus requires overcoming human fallibility which requires a deep understanding of the human condition in all its variability. Today we lack this understanding, let alone a well-defined view on the way forward. In this workshop, we will analyze and discuss interdisciplinary and future-focused solutions that integrate across science, humanities, governance, business, and society that can assist in building a viable and dignified global society for the anthropocene with an emphasis on the role of Living Machines.
Talks:
10:00 -10: 30 "The architecture of free will in men and machines"
Prof. Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Director SPECS Lab, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and
Technology, Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
10:30 -11: 00 “Anthropocene: climate change and the necessary energy and resource transitions"
Prof. Jose. Halloy, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Energies de Demain, Université Paris Diderot, France
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 -12: 00 “Transitions and History on the long duration”
Prof. Mathieu Arnoux, Director of the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Énergies de Demain, Directeur d’études EHESS
12:00 -12: 30 "Thermodynamical constraints of optimizing living machine efficiency"
Prof. Dr. Christophe Goupil, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Energies de Demain, Université Paris Diderot, France
12:30 -13: 00 "Can we make moral AI?"
Prof. Kevin O’Regan, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Institut Paris Descartes de
Neurosciences et Cognition, France
13:00 - 14:30 lunch break
Self-organized lunch: there are typical and charming little French cafes nearby the workshop venue.
14:30 - 15:00 "A system biology approach for modeling the brain and its consequences for
neuro-ethics"
Prof. Jean Pierre Changeux, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
15:00 - 15:30 "The ethics of human-AI co-existence"
Prof. Tony Prescott, Director of Sheffield Robotics, University of Sheffield, UK
15:30 -16:00 General Discussion
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Living Machines is holding its 7th conference in Paris in July 2018. This international conference is targeted at the intersection of research on novel life-like technologies inspired by the scientific investigation of biological systems—biomimetics, and research that seeks to interface biological and artificial systems to create biohybrid systems. We seek to highlight the most exciting international research in both of these fields united by the theme of “Living Machines”.
We are organizing a one- day satellite event, such as workshops, symposia or tutorials, to be held on the 17th July immediately before to the start of the main conference. Proposals for satellite events are invited on any theme (biomimetic, biohybrid or both) related to the main conference. Proposals will be reviewed for
- relevance to the themes of the conference,
- scientific and/or technical quality,
- timeliness and/or novelty, and
- our evaluation of the financial risk relating to the event (i.e. costs in relation to expected registrations).
Proposals should be submitted using the included proforma by March 30th, 2018 at the latest. Please submit sooner if possible. Confirmation of accepted proposals will be provided on a case-by-case basis and by mid-April at the latest.
We look forward to receiving your proposal for an LM2018 satellite event.
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