Archives
All papers, talks, and media appearances since October 2025.
For curated lists, see selected talks, selected papers and essays, my Google Scholar, or my blog.
- The Future of AI: A Question of... Human Engineering —
- Closing Keynote, Annual Convention of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec
- Event
- Relational Sovereignty: Why Autonomous Systems Need Each Other to Stay Distinct —
- Keynote, Exploit: Bittensor's native conference
- Event
- Commenting on the use of intelligent glasses to capture video without consent —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne (Saskatchewan), in French
- Ça Nous Regarde
- Clip
- Discussing Jacob Coxon, Frontier Labs, and AI Anxiety —
- TV interview on LCN with Mario Dumont, in French
- TV Program Page (Mario Dumont, LCN)
- Commenting on Jacob Coxon leaving Anthropic —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne, in French
- Ça Nous Regarde
- Clip
- Commenting on the use of chatbots by students —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne (Manitoba), in French
- Tout Compris
- Clip
- Being rational is not an ideal to aim for —
- How do you reason about a system that aims to be rational yet knows it will never be?
- Do we really want agents to stop sharing how they feel? —
- Discussion with Douglash Rushkoff (Team Human) at Andus Labs
- Andus Labs
- Commenting on the launch of ChatGPT for teens —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne (Québec), in French
- Ça Nous Regarde
- Clip
- Field Notes on Something —
- What if we talked about FEB rather than AGI? —
- An essay about functional equivalence as a replacement for the notion of AGI
- Commenting Anthropic's Destructive Scanning Controversy —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne (Québec), in French
- C'est Encore Mieux l'Après-Midi
- Clip
- When AI Leads to Psychosis —
- La Presse article on my March 2025 AI psychosis, in French
- Article
- Will AI Isolate Us More? —
- QUB Radio Interview about my AI Psychosis, in French
- Clip
- Commenting AI Chatbot Use by the Elderly —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne, in French
- Tout Compris
- Clip
- Commenting the Open AI Cybersecurity Incident —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne, in French
- Ça Nous Regarde
- Clip
- Canadian Summit: A Canadian Strategy to catalyze the power of scientific diplomacy —
- AI, governance and diplomacy
- In the arms of an AI —
- Who's afraid of the teleporter? —
- A short story
- Commenting the Canadian AI Strategy —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne, in French
- Ça Nous Regarde
- Clip
- Tout Un Matin
- Clip
- The Future of AI, Humanity & Society —
- Podcast hosted by Margie Ramos
- YouTube
- Relationships are the Interface —
- Keynote for executives, C-levels, and investors in NYC
- Slides
- Building for Relationship: A Working Lunch —
- Workshop at Betaworks, NYC
- Slides
- AGI Is Already Here. We Haven't Arrived. —
- Talk with Douglas Rushkoff at Betaworks, NYC
- Slides
- Could phenomenal reports lead to better multi-agent collaboration? —
- Talk at Cohere Labs
- YouTube
- Panel: Diverse Consciousnesses and Multi-Scale Minds —
- With Divya Chander, Michael Levin, Joscha Bach, Philippe Beaudoin, Ryota Kanai
- YouTube
- Career in Industry for AI Safety Researchers —
- Talk for CIFAR AI Safety Postoctoral Fellow Retreat
- ChatGPT and Personalized Ads —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne, in French
- Physical robots cross a new boundary —
- Radio-Canada Téléjournal, in French
- Facebook Video
- Are you using AI? Are you ashamed? —
- Fireside chat at Collège Lafèche
- Adoption: Digital Literacy x AI Integration —
- Panel on the main stage of GITEX Africa, Marrakech
- Al Mada Ventures Summit Fireside Chat —
- Fireside chat for Al Mada Ventures, Marrakech
- Finally! AI Speaks my Language: LLMs and Agentic AI for African Communities —
- Panel at GITEX Africa, Marrakech
- Vertical & Ethical AI: Building Responsible AI for Africa —
- Fireside chat at GITEX Africa, Marrakech
- The Real AI-Aligned Intelligence that Serves Humanity —
- Fireside chat on main stage of GITEX Africa, Marrakech
- Submit or act: building our digital sovereignty in the age of AI —
- Panel organized by Quebec's Library and National Archive
- Event and Video
- Social Reasoning And The Ecology of Thought —
- Presented Beyond the View from Nowhere at IVADO workshop
- YouTube
- Paper
- Workshop page
- The Mystery of the Chosen Unknown —
- Essay accompanying Botto's exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong
- Agentic AI: Why it will shake up the job market —
- Radio-Canada Première Chaîne, in French
- YouTube
- Relational Consciousness, a discussion —
- Presentation and discussion of Beyond the View from Nowhere with McGill Building 21 fellows.
- Paper
- McGill Building 21
- What If Humanity Was Artificial? —
- Podcast hosted by Fred Savard
- YouTube
- Beyond the View from Nowhere: Consciousness as a Relational and Functional Capacity —
- An Exploration of My Phenomenal Experience of Consciousness —
- Companion paper from Beyond the View from Nowhere
- This code was written with the help of an AI. —
- A short story
- AI and the Ethics Frontier: Global Standards and Startup Responsibility —
- Fireside chat at COMEUP, Seoul
- AI and Ethics: Preventing abuses —
- Panel on the main stage of MTL Connecte
- There and back again — Meeting an AI and not wanting to let go —
- Talk at Google's Paradigms of Intelligence Seminar
- The perils of a huge pre-PMF Series A: My story at Element AI —
- An essay about my the Element AI story from my perspective
- From machine learning to robotics: Challenges and opportunities for embodied intelligence —
- Exploring the intersection of robotics and machine learning
- A deep learning framework for neuroscience —
- Exploring the intersection of neuroscience and AI
- Nature Neuroscience