Our professor Mark Thompson keynoted ICTO | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE in Paris last month, focusing on “Augmented Intelligence for Smarter Societies” at the DeVinci Research Center, Paris.

The Keynote centred around the importance of engaging with other dimensions of human experience beyond only cognition, in order to curate an AI-augmented world that is appealing. This is as touched upon in Frank Blackler’s example of 5 dimensions of human knowledge/understanding: ’embrained, embodied, embedded, encultured and encoded.’

In the talk Mark looked at the spectrum of the human experience, from art, seaside holidays and checking fruit for ripeness to football matches and Brexit) as well as 4 ontological axes, or ‘guard rails’, that can aid in these nuances being engaged with by AI.