The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on *Tissue Microstructure Imaging* program is out! This unique meeting format offers a unifying look at tissue microstructure based on #MRI, #US, #optics, #EM , #xray, #photoacoustic, etc. Join us *July 12-18*! And please RT! 🙏 More info 👇

The concrete indicator showing that we are not there yet in term of "respect of others" remain the patterns of whom interrupt whom during meetings. It is often quite bad even with otherwise very nice people.

"If we create entities that are smarter than us, and have their own goals, what does that mean for humanity?... It's a race, and it's a dangerous race." In a recent interview with CNBC, AI 'Godfather' Yoshua Bengio explains why governments must regulate the development of

If you're hungry but too lazy to prepare healthy food, you'll consume junk food. If you're hungry for knowledge but too lazy to seek out the truth, you'll consume misinformation.

This is amazing, wow Michael Levin

Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Link to full Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c48… 1/16

Looking forward 🤩

Very much looking forward to present our work* in the MoroccoAI webinar tomorrow at 7pm GMT+1. Thank you Redouane Lguensat and the MoroccoAI team for the invitation! *: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…, frontiersin.org/journals/neuro… & biorxiv.org/content/10.110… CIBM Centre d'Imagerie Biomedicale Swiss National Science Foundation

Fantastic session on the neural correlates of infant consciousness with talks by ⁦Sid Kouider⁩ Yusuke Nakashima Topun Austin ⁦Hamza Kebiri⁩ ⁦NYU Bioethics⁩ ⁦🧠 NYU Consciousness 🧠⁩

With the unchecked race to build smarter-than-human AI intensifying, humanity is on track to almost certainly lose control. In "Keep The Future Human", FLI Executive Director Anthony Aguirre explains why we must close the 'gates' to AGI - and instead develop beneficial, safe

an excellent Science Magazine article on pre-natal consciousness, based on the recent NYU conference on infant consciousness. featuring thoughts from Claudia Passos, Prof Lorina Naci, and others, with a cameo role for our survey of views on infant consciousness. science.org/content/articl…

“This suggests that the thalamus acts as a filter and controls which thoughts get through to awareness and which don’t” scientificamerican.com/article/brain-…

LLMs aren't the only ones faking it 😂

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hamza Kebiri, Meritxell Bach Cuadra et al.: Functional organization of the neonatal thalamus across development depicted by functional MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a…

videos from the landmark NYU meeting on infant consciousness are now online! with Prof Lorina Naci, Ghislaine Dehaene, tim bayne, Ned Block, Anna Ciaunica @annaciaunica.bsky.social, Sid Kouider, Joel Frohlich, S. Matthew Liao, Richard Brown, many more. congrats Claudia Passos for a great event! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

The theater of the mind is what actually “sees” the world. The sense organs simply deliver data. In the case of images, arrive upside down and the brain reassembles and builds “reality” by using the most minimal data. When motion stops, perception stops:

My TED2025 talk "Inside the mind of a newborn baby" is live! I discuss new evidence of consciousness in newborns, and why this matters for medicine, ethics, and the science of consciousness. Hope you enjoy! TED Talks ted.com/talks/claudia_…