In Conversation: Lawrence Lek & Professor Iyad Rahwan

The conversation invites us to explore the universe of NOX and the actors operating within it, and to question how agency, consciousness and empathy might develop in a world shaped by AI.

In their conversation, artist Lawrence Lek and Iyad Rahwan (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Founder and Director of the Center for Humans & Machines) delve into the world of NOX and its underlying themes of intelligent machines, smart systems and Interspecies collaboration. How can speculation and worldbuilding help us explore growing human-machine interdependencies? How do we imagine the psychological, moral and political ramifications of a smart city reality built on automation and surveillance? How distant might a future be, in which machines could feel emotions — and would they be capable of evoking them in us humans?