The Center for the Future of AI, Mind and Society hosted “The Great AI Weirding” in Deerfield Beach — an interdisciplinary workshop exploring questions at the frontiers of science, philosophy, and emerging technology.

Prof. Elan Barenholtz delivered a keynote on how key computational features of transformers — embeddings, attention weighting, and autoregressive updating — align with known neurophysiological signatures including temporal decay, graded residual activation, and recurrent cortical loops. The lecture demonstrated how transformer-style architectures may offer a unified computational perspective on human thought and behavior.

Prof. William Hahn delivered a keynote on the Emergence of Natural and Artificial Patterns as part of the MPCR Lab + Complex Systems AI Lecture Series.

Profs. William Hahn and Elan Barenholtz presented at Ekkolapto’s Longevity Research Hackathon at MIT Media Lab as part of Boston Longevity Week. Tracks included bioelectricity, biological prompt engineering, biological infohazards, and olfaction and longevity.

Prof. Elan Barenholtz presented “Nature’s Memory: Language, Autoregression, and the Non-Markovian Structure of Natural Computation” at the Wolfram Institute, with Daniel Van Zant, William Hahn, and Dugan Hammock participating. The talk proposed that non-Markovian autoregression over autogenerative structures is a fundamental principle of language, cognition, and many natural systems.

Prof. William Hahn, Ekkolapto researcher Addy Cha, and Benjamin Lyons discussed the economic properties of collectively intelligent systems, the computational structure of “hyperorganisms,” and diverse forms of distributed computing in an Ekkolapto Polymath Salon.

MPCR co-founder Prof. Elan Barenholtz and the Wolfram Institute’s Dugan Hammock discussed how Stephen Wolfram’s theory of cellular automata can elucidate new insights on the nature of language and cognition in an Ekkolapto Polymath Salon.