Michael Levin

The biomedical applications are obvious.

Instead of, hey, Siri, you want, hey, liver.

Why do I feel like crap today?

And you want an answer.

Well, you know, your potassium levels are this and that.

And I don't feel, you know, I don't feel good for these reasons.

And you should be able to talk to these things.

And there should be able to be an interface that allows us to communicate.

Right.

And I think AI is going to be a huge component of that interface of allowing us to talk to these systems.

It's a it's a tool to combat our mind blindness, to help us see diverse other very unconventional minds that are all around us.

Yeah, that is exactly the mission of my lab.

It is to enable us to develop tools to recognize these things, to learn to communicate with them, to ethically relate to them, and in general to expand our ability to do this in the world around us.

I specifically chose these kinds of things because...

They're not as alien as proper aliens would be.

So we have some hope.

I mean, we're made of them.

We have many things in common.

There's some hope of understanding them.

You're talking about xenobots and... Xenobots and anthrobots and cells and everything else.