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.
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.
if we want to legit ‘reconfigure society’ via ‘hybrid human-ai’ where ‘human sits outside loop’ and tech is ‘fully automated for agency’ ness.. we need to automate tech/ai/whatever to listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us .. otherwise.. still inside sea world and ‘hybrid human/ai’ ness is still just another form of people telling other people what to do
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.
reconfiguring we need most: conditions for legit freedom
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.
note: on survival ness: survival is a means to survive things as they are.. so to me.. not a legit alt.. it’s triage.. perpetuating survival triage.. so a temp band aide per se.. that will /can help now.. but only for short term.. because it still doesn’t get to the root of the problem.. so it won’t offer/lead-to legit change/life/freedom.. et al.. so.. to me.. it’s still a cancerous distraction to the dance
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).
be you. 