Programme 2026

Day 1 — Foundations, Evaluation & Recursive Self-Improvement

10:00 -- Registration

10:30–11:00 Welcome & Introduction — Dr. Cédric Mesnage
11:00–12:00 Keynote 1 — Tatiana Shavrina -- Advancing Scientific Research with AI Research Agents Chair : Grigory Sapunov
12:00–12:45 Lunch

12:45–13:45 — Session 1: Defining and Evaluating Superintelligence Chair : Cédric Mesnage

• 12:45 #16 Scientific CI/CD for ASI Scientists — David Scott Lewis, Karl Wang, Haley Yi [confirmed]

• 13:05 #11 What Is in a Name? — Soumya Banerjee [confirmed]

13:45–14:00 Short break

14:00–15:00 Keynote 2 — Jürgen Schmidhuber -- No Superintelligence without Mastery of the Real World [remote] Chair : Cédric Mesnage

15:00–16:00 — Session 2: Evaluation Methods & Recursive Self-Improvement Chair : Grigory Sapunov

• 15:00 #15 RSI and Its Role in ASI — David Scott Lewis, Karl Wang, Haley Yi, Zijin Wu [confirmed]

• 15:20  #8 From AGI to ASI: Mapping the Societal and Systemic Impact — Soumya Banerjee [confirmed]

16:00 -- Speed data-ing Chair : Jennifer Lay

Day 2 — Mind, Ethics & Moral Agency

11:00–12:00 Keynote — Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes -- Modalities of AI Consciousness  Chair : Jennifer Lay
12:00–12:45 Lunch

12:45–13:45 — Session 3: Ontology, Consciousness & the Epistemology of Machine Minds Chair : Jennifer Lay

• 12:45 #24 Superintelligence Without a Subject — Constantine Andoniou [confirmed]

• 13:05 #30 Superintelligence as the Discovery of Unexplored Reasoning Spaces — Manojshyaam C J, Alanud Salah, Soumya Banerjee [confirmed]

• 13:25 #31 Enabling Moral Agency: A Complexity-Theoretic Argument for Machine Virtue — Oliver Bridge [confirmed]

13:45–14:00 Short break

14:00–14:40 — Session 4: Applied Ethics, Rights & Verification Chair : Cédric Mesnage

• 14:00 #28 Bias, Ethics, and Standardization Gaps in Biologically Inspired AI and BCI Development — John Fehr [confirmed]

• 14:20 #17 Source-Sensitive Verification for AI-Assisted Modern-Slavery Due Diligence — Zijin Wu, David Scott Lewis, Haley Yi [confirmed]

15:00 -- 16:00 Panel AI and Consciousness Chair : Grigory Sapunov

Panelists : Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Constantine Andoniou, Soumya Banerjee, Oliver Bridge

Day 3 — Geopolitics, Governance & Security

11:00–12:00 Keynote — Ivana Bartoletti -- Designed Neutral, Gendered in Practice: what AI Governance keeps missing [remote]  Chair : Oliver Bridge
12:00–13:00 Lunch

13:00–13:40 — Session 5: Geopolitics & Governance of Frontier AI Chair : Oliver Bridge

• 13:00 #22 Beyond Loss of Control: Geopolitical Dependency for the Global South — Soumya Banerjee [confirmed]

• 13:20 #19 Chips as Uranium? Counter-Proliferation Logic for ASI Governance — Winston Luster, Zijin Wu, Haley Yi, David Scott Lewis [confirmed]

13:40–14:00 Short break

14:00–15:20 — Session 6: Military, Space & Biosecurity Applications Chair : Cédric Mesnage

• 14:00 #20 Kill-Chain Compression: ASI, Autonomous Weapons — David Scott Lewis, Winston Luster, Haley Yi, Enrique Zueco [confirmed]

• 14:20 #21 Orbital ASI: Military Space Operations — David Scott Lewis, Enrique Zueco, Haley Yi [confirmed]

• 14:40 #26 Against Introducing Superintelligence into Space — Soumya Banerjee [confirmed]

• 15:00 #18 The Biosecurity Ratchet — Haley Yi, Winston Luster, David Scott Lewis [confirmed]

15:20 -- 16:20 Panel AI and geopolitics Chair : Oliver Bridge

Panelists : Ivana Bartoletti, David Scott Lewis, Soumya Banerjee

16:20 -- Panel AI and Software Engineering Chair : Cédric Mesnage

Panelists : Achim Drucker, Shiqiang Wang, Grigory Sapunov

17:20 Debate

18:00 Closing remarks -- Best paper award.