A Computational View of Life and Intelligence

September 24, 2025

“Life” and “intelligence” are terms with heavily contested meanings. In this discussion, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP/Fellow, CTO of Technology & Society at Google offers a novel, unified perspective on both, life and intelligence as described in his new book, What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds.

Speaker: Blaise Agüera y Arcas, VP/Fellow, CTO of Technology & Society at Google

Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann, Director Harvard’s Growth Lab