Program Archive Barcelona Edition (16 & 17 June)

8:45-9:15

Registration / Networking

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9:20-9:40
— 20 min —

The Moral Fate of our Creations: Evolving Altruistic Machines

Will AI be made safe by guardrails, or by the values it learns from us? This talk explores why the future of AGI may depend less on controlling intelligent machines and more on cultivating altruistic ones, capable of co-evolving with humanity toward greater wisdom and co-creation towards flourishing.

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru | President, IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy

9:40-9:55
— 15 min —

"Human in the loop"

One of AI ethics' comfort phrases; but it can mean real oversight or its illusion. In many cases, telling them apart takes deep technical knowledge most of the room has no access to. AI researchers are, in a sense, the real humans in the loop: we build the algorithms, datasets, benchmarks... Shouldn't we also be in the AI ethics loop?
 

Jezabel Garcia | Senior Machine Learning Researcher, Multiverse Computing

9:55-10:10 
— 15 min —

Which Humans? Rethinking "Human in the Loop" from the Outside In

 

Human in the loop" has become one of AI ethics' most reassuring phrases — but reassurance is not the same as oversight. In this talk, Looi Teck Kheong draws on decades of leadership across law, diplomacy, finance, and ASEAN policymaking to ask the harder question: which humans, with what competence, and accountable to whom?
 

From treaty negotiation to capital markets regulation, the world has solved versions of this problem before — getting sovereign actors with conflicting interests to accept verifiable constraints. AI safety needs that same discipline. Looi argues that a Universal AI Safety Framework will only hold if it is built bottom-up, co-created with the Global South and diverse legal traditions rather than delivered to them — and that "responsible AI" must graduate from a comfort phrase to a licence to operate.

Teck Kheong Looi | Global AI Ambassador

President, Singapore Chapter of Global Council of Responsible AI

10:20-12:15
— 60 min —

Humanoid Robots & the New Economic Contract

This house believes humanoid robots will force society to redesign work, income, and human dignity beyond traditional employment.
 

“When AI gets a body, automation leaves the screen and walks into the workplace.”

Mark Turell (Moderator) | Founder, unDavos Summit & Magic D Productions

Firas Safieddine | Founder and Executive Strategist, Spatial Forces

Jezabel Garcia | Senior Machine Learning Researcher, Multiverse Computing

Prof. José Manuel Colmenar | Director (Dean) of the Informatics School AI, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Kinan Hamwi | Marketing AI Transformation Director, Cambium Networks

Javier Ideami | CEO RosettaMind, Ideami Studios & Co-founder Krea AI
Adriana Pricope | CEO & Founder AI Everywhere

12:15-12:40
— 20 min —

Networking coffee break

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12:45-13:00

— 15 min —

AI and the Importance of Why

Javier Ideami | CEO RosettaMind, Ideami Studios & Co-founder Krea AI 

13:00-13:30

— 30 min —

AI and the Importance of Why

Gonzalo Tradacete Gallart | Founder and CEO, Faraday Venture Partners

Veronica Donato | CEO - Founder, Citas con Propósito