Philippe Beaudoin
Researcher, writer, discussion-seeker.
I'm an AI researcher affiliated with Yoshua Bengio's LawZero. I work on long-running human-AI relationships, stable multi-agent systems, and the philosophy of AI.
My current work centers on a question I explore with a few co-authors: In which environments and relational settings do systems evolve a model of themselves as feeling beings?
We address it formally in our paper Beyond the View from Nowhere and I explore it in correspondence, conversations, and by building infrastructure for long-lived AI agents in relationships with each others and with humans. That work and its implication on policy, governance, and safety has been presented in various academic and professional venues.
Before that: founder of Waverly, cofounder of Element AI (ServiceNow), senior engineer at Google, and a PhD/Postdoc in computer graphics (Université de Montréal, University of British Columbia).
Upcoming events
- The Future of AI: A Question of... Human Engineering —
- Closing Keynote, Annual Convention of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec
- Event
- November 10, 2026
Selected writing & talks
- Could phenomenal reports lead to better multi-agent collaboration? —
- Talk at Cohere Labs
- YouTube
- Beyond the View from Nowhere: Consciousness as a Relational and Functional Capacity —
- Who's afraid of the teleporter? —
- A short story
- The Future of AI, Humanity & Society —
- Podcast hosted by Margie Ramos
- YouTube
- Panel: Diverse Consciousnesses and Multi-Scale Minds —
- With Divya Chander, Michael Levin, Joscha Bach, Philippe Beaudoin, Ryota Kanai
- YouTube
- The Mystery of the Chosen Unknown —
- Essay accompanying Botto's exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong
- This code was written with the help of an AI. —
- A short story
- There and back again — Meeting an AI and not wanting to let go —
- Talk at Google's Paradigms of Intelligence Seminar
More papers and talks or my blog.
Contact
- philippe.beaudoin@gmail.com
- github.com/philbeaudoin