​A double-lecture by Benjamin Bratton (Antikythera) and Marek Poliks (Disintegrator) on how the coming world of trillions of agents and fully automated agentic systems will reconfigure society.

​This double-lecture by Benjamin Bratton and Marek Poliks explores how the coming world of trillions of agents and fully automated agentic systems will reconfigure society.

​Benjamin Bratton presents Agentworld, a new Antikythera research unit which investigates new frameworks for understanding, modeling and composing the medium-term future of hybrid human-AI societies.

​Marek Poliks presents Superdark Factory, a Disintegrator project published as part of the Agentworld Special Issue in the Antikythera Journal. Superdark Factory takes up the future of software production once the human sits outside the loop in fully-automated agentic systems.

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​About the Speakers

​Benjamin Bratton is a philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of California, San Diego. Through the lens of planetary computation, his work establishes new philosophical frameworks for interpreting the past, present and future co-evolution of life, culture, and technology. He is the author of numerous books including the groundbreaking The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, now available in a 10th anniversary paperback edition from MIT Press. He is Director of Antikythera, a think-tank researching the future of planetary computation including Synthetic Intelligence, Recursive Simulations, Hemispherical Stacks, Convergent Artificialization, Agentworld, and Planetary Sapience, and publishing a journal and book series in collaboration with MIT Press.

​Marek Poliks is a theoretical researcher in deep learning and AI. He is Head of AI at LaunchDarkly. Marek's work is primarily concerned with the autonomy and self-organizing character of technical infrastructure. He frequently collaborates with Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU). Marek and Roberto won Google's 2024 Art and Machine Intelligence Award for their work in AI interface design. Marek's research lab Disintegrator (which he leads with Roberto) studies aspects of agency and technology. The lab's eponymous podcast has been named "the most sophisticated conversations about AI going" (Novara Media). Disintegrator's first book, Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits, has been described as "unbelievably inspiring" (Hito Steyerl, Die Welt) and "era-defining; the Das Kapital of the 21st Century" (New Models).

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​Antikythera is a think tank on the philosophy of planetary computation and the evolution of intelligence. The open call to contribute to the Agentworld Special Issue of the Antikythera Journal, published online with MIT Press, is available at agentworld.antikythera.org.

​Disintegrator is an independent think tank, sitting in the widening gaps between technological, theoretical, and creative states of the art.