Foresight's AI Salon: Kazik Pogoda | Metacognitive AI: when philosophy meets harness engineering
Join Foresight Institute and Xemantic's Kazik Pogoda in his session entitled Metacognitive AI: when philosophy meets harness engineering
What happens when phenomenology, cognitive science, and systems engineering inform how we build self-improving agents, capable of autonomous scientific discovery. Is metacognition required to reach AGI? Drawing on his ongoing work on Golem XIV, a Lem-inspired AI harness with recursive self-improvement loops, Kazik will explore how philosophical commitments (about cognition, language, and selfhood) shape — and are shaped by — the engineering choices made at the harness layer.
Schedule
6 - 7 pm: Drinks & Social
7 - 8 pm: Talk, Q&A, & Breakouts
8 - 9 pm: Mingle & Hang
Speaker Bio: The founder of Xemantic (CTO) and Prachtsaal (art community), AI researcher, educator, software architect and developer, open source author, computational artist, philosopher (cognitive science, language, ethics)
Salon discussions are held under Chatham House Rule (don’t connect people to ideas when discussing them outside of this workshop).
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