Invitation-only summit

May 18–19, 2026 · Harvard · Cambridge, MA

Superintelligence for Humanity

Invitational Summit on the Future of AI Dignity and Sovereignty

This invitation-only summit convenes senior researchers, builders, and institutional partners to examine the next frontier of AI: not simply larger models, but shared cognitive infrastructure for systems that can reason, coordinate, and learn together across humans, agents, and institutions.

Artificial Collective Intelligence (ACI) is framed here as the research and infrastructure layer for accountable human–AI collectives: preserving provenance, supporting consent and revocability, encoding tacit expertise, and enabling coordination under uncertainty.

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Featured speakers

Portrait of Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Google

Featured speaker, Panel 1

Panel 1

Portrait of Melanie Mitchell

Melanie Mitchell

Santa Fe Institute

Featured speaker, Panel 1

Panel 1

Portrait of François Chollet

François Chollet

TBC

Ndea / ARC Prize Foundation

Featured speaker, Panel 1 — TBC

Panel 1

Portrait of Michael Levin

Michael Levin

Tufts University

Lead speaker, Panel 2

Panel 2

Portrait of Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes

MIT Media Lab

Lead speaker, Panel 2

Panel 2

Portrait of Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson

Columbia University

Lead speaker, Panel 2

Panel 2

Portrait of Lipika Kapoor

Lipika Kapoor

MIT

Moderator, Panel 2

Panel 2

Portrait of Michael Spranger

Michael Spranger

TBC

Sony AI / Sony Research

Featured speaker, Panel 3 — TBC

Panel 3

Portrait of Takashi Ikegami

Takashi Ikegami

University of Tokyo

Featured speaker, Panel 3

Panel 3

Portrait of Ryota Kanai

Ryota Kanai

Araya

Featured speaker, Panel 3

Panel 3

Portrait of Ujjwal Kumar

Ujjwal Kumar

Harvard

Organizer / Moderator, Panel 3

Organizer

Portrait of Ahmer Inam

Ahmer Inam

Cognisee

Organizer / Featured speaker, Panel 3

Panel 3

Portrait of Olaf Witkowski

Olaf Witkowski

Cross Labs

Organizer / Moderator, Panel 1 / Panel 2 speaker

Organizer

Portrait of Tricia Wang

Tricia Wang

AAIS

MC

MC

Speaker lineup remains subject to final confirmation.

Framing

Why now

The next AI control challenge is not only stronger models. It is the absence of trustworthy collective intelligence infrastructure: shared context, semantic coordination, provenance, consent, verification, and institutional accountability across human and AI agents.

Shared cognitive infrastructure

Durable context, coordination protocols, and institutional memory that can be inspected, updated, and governed.

Governed abstraction exchange

Mechanisms for moving ideas across people, agents, teams, and institutions without losing meaning or accountability.

Tacit expertise and provenance

Ways to preserve embodied skill, lineage, consent, and authorship as knowledge becomes operational infrastructure.

Accountable human–AI institutions

Structures for verification, revocability, stewardship, and collective decision-making under uncertainty.

Objectives

1

Establish Artificial Collective Intelligence as a mature research direction beyond monolithic large-scale AI agendas.

2

Clarify the technical and institutional foundations of shared context, semantic coordination, provenance, consent, revocability, and governed abstraction exchange.

3

Examine why tacit expertise and institutional memory are safety-critical, legally sensitive, and often collectively owned.

4

Produce a concise ACI agenda with open problems, evaluation milestones, and pilot designs.

Schedule

All times are Eastern Time.

Day 1

Monday, May 18, 2026

10:00–10:30 AM

Opening framing: governed collective intelligence as the missing layer

Opening words: Ujjwal Kumar, Olaf Witkowski, Ahmer Inam

MC: Tricia Wang

10:30–11:00 AM

Coffee and arrival buffer

11:00 AM–1:00 PM

Panel 1 — Architectures for the Next Intelligence Explosion

Focus: beyond-LLM architectures, reliability, collective reasoning, and governed knowledge infrastructures.

Moderator: Olaf Witkowski

Featured speakers: Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Melanie Mitchell, François Chollet (TBC)

1:00–3:00 PM

Lunch / private meetings

3:00–5:00 PM

Panel 2 — Physical, Embodied, and Biohybrid Intelligence Collectives

Focus: embodied cognition, robotics, bioelectric intelligence, tacit skill capture, and multi-scale agency.

Moderator: Lipika Kapoor

Lead speakers: Michael Levin, Pattie Maes, Hod Lipson, Olaf Witkowski

5:00–6:00 PM

ACI working synthesis

Draft benchmarks, pilot designs, and shared vocabulary.

8:00–10:00 PM

Panel 3 — Futures of Collective Intelligence: Society, Creativity, and Sovereign AI Infrastructures

Focus: how ACI moves from research architecture into real-world systems: creative AI, embodied and interactive agents, institutional second brains, sovereign AI, regional intelligence infrastructures, and Japan/APAC as a frontier for socially grounded AI futures.

Moderator: Ujjwal Kumar

Featured speakers: Michael Spranger (TBC), Takashi Ikegami, Ryota Kanai, Ahmer Inam

Day 2

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

9:00–10:30 AM

Closing working session

Pilot collaborations, evaluation milestones, governance constraints, and next steps.

10:30–11:00 AM

ACI agenda drafting

Convert discussion into a short publishable roadmap note.

11:00–11:30 AM

Closing remarks

Summit wrap-up and follow-up commitments.

Expected outputs

Roadmap note

A concise ACI thesis and roadmap note, planned for publication with MIT Press.

Benchmarks

A short list of technical benchmarks and governance milestones.

Pilot collaborations

Candidate pilot collaborations in clinical skill transfer, sovereign/community knowledge preservation, enterprise deployments, physical AI, and regional intelligence infrastructure.

Who is invited

Approximately 40–70 invited participants: senior researchers and builders in AI, robotics, cognition, governance, security, and institutional intelligence, plus selected strategic partners from deep tech, healthcare, robotics, sovereign AI, and public-interest infrastructure.