AI Citizenship & the Social Contract Between Intelligences: meet David Vivancos on Artificiology

Can AI become a citizen? In this episode, our host Dr. Mihaela Ulieru speaks with scientist and inventor David Vivancos about the social contract between intelligences and his project Artificiology.

Listen and learn to join the conversation about:

1) How AI evolves from tool to agent to autonomous participant

2) Artificiology: reconstructing the minds of 1,000+ historical figures (from Genghis Khan to Confucius) to navigate today's AGI transition

3) Open-source neural models of lost minds, available on GitHub

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When AI Gets a Body: Can We Trust It With Freedom? Mindplex and Dr. Mihaela Ulieru present Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis on Autonomous Systems, AI Safety, and Swarm Robotics.

In this gripping episode, Dr. Mihaela sits with Professor Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, the Director of the Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems Lab at Georgia Tech, to explore the frontier of embodied AI safety.

Professor Vamvoudakis tackles the most consequential questions of our time: How do we give machines the freedom to learn in the real world while ensuring they remain safe?

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In this episode, Dr.Mihaela Ulieru sits down with Anthony Finbow an engineer, law and philosophy scholar, turned venture capitalist and serial deep-tech entrepreneur. Drawing from his origins in cybernetics, signal processing, and control engineering, Anthony presents his groundbreaking computational framework: "Metabolism as Inference."

Moving beyond traditional silicon-based models and the standard neuromorphic approach of mimicking neurons, Anthony explores the cognitive capabilities of mitochondria. By mapping the mitochondrial electron transport chain and ATP synthase to control systems like phase-locked loops and operational amplifiers, he argues that true cognition cannot abstract away from resource and energy constraints.

Join us as we explore the nexus of biology and AI, active inference, autopoiesis, substrate dependency, and the future of embodied robotics.

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Are we facing inevitable doom at the hands of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), or is AI simply the next magnificent step in cosmic evolution?

In this episode of the Beneficial General Intelligence series on the Mindplex podcast, we dive deep into one of the most critical conversations of our time. Dr. Roman Yampolskiy (AI Safety Researcher) and Dr. Gregory Stock (Biotechnologist and Transhumanist) go head-to-head on the existential risks of AGI.

Dr. Yampolskiy argues that creating an ASI without a foolproof alignment strategy is a guaranteed path to human extinction, urging us to stick strictly to narrow AI tools. On the flip side, Dr. Stock envisions a future where humans and AI merge into a planetary superorganism, arguing that trying to halt the evolution of intelligence is not only futile but dangerous.

Will AI step on us like an anthill, or will it help us conquer the stars? Watch to find out, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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The perfect AI dream is to own a personal AI whose loyalty ensures it works in your best interest and protects your private data while you interact with it. In this powerful Mindplex podcast, our host Dr. Mihaela Ulieru launches a lively conversation about decentralised AI, welcoming Raza Rassool, serial entrepreneur, inventor with over 75 patents, and founder of Kwaai, to explore the urgent mission of building the "Linux of AI."

The episode discusses the distinction between Personal AI and Personalized AI: one is truly yours, the other serves the vendor's interests.

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What if self‑awareness is not a mystical human trait but a measurable engineering metric? In this mind‑expanding episode of the Mindplex podcast, our host Dr. Mihaela Ulieru welcomes Professor Hod Lipson, Director of Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab and keynote speaker at the AGI 26 Conference, to explore the frontier of machine consciousness, robotics, and AI self‑modeling.

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Mindplex Presents "The Abstractionist Papers": Luiz Van Paumgartten on Meaning, Happening, and the Reality Translation Engine!

In this mind‑bending episode, Dr. Mihaela Ulieru welcomes Luiz Van Paumgartten, patent attorney, engineer, and author of The Abstractionist Papers, to explore a radical new map of reality.

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