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Talks
- Keynote speaker at conference ‘Beyond AI: interdisciplinary aspects of artificial intelligence’, December 8-9 2011, Pilsen, University of West Bohemia
- Invited speaker at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2015), July 12-17 Killarney, Ireland. Topic: ‘Ethics and large-scale neural simulations: when do we need to start caring for networks, rather than about them?’
- Invited speaker at the Royal Physiographic Society spring colloquium19 May 2015:, Lund. Topic: the role of culture in research innovation.
- Invited speaker at panel discussion on ‘Threat of Intelligence?’ at Societal Implications of Robotics Symposium (SIRoS) 1 May 2015, organized by the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative, Brown University. Participants: Micah Clark (ONR), James Hughes (Trinity College), Stefanie Tellex (Brown University). Moderator Michael Littman (Brown University).
- Talk with JB Crozet at RAA Cat Modelling conference, 10 February 2015, Orlando Florida, on systemic risk of risk modelling.
- Invited speaker at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2015), July 12-17 Killarney, Ireland. Topic: ‘Ethics and large-scale neural simulations: when do we need to start caring for networks, rather than about them?’
- Invited speaker at the Royal Physiographic Society spring colloquium19 May 2015:, Lund. Topic: the role of culture in research innovation.
- Invited speaker at panel discussion on ‘Threat of Intelligence?’ at Societal Implications of Robotics Symposium (SIRoS) 1 May 2015, organized by the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative, Brown University. Participants: Micah Clark (ONR), James Hughes (Trinity College), Stefanie Tellex (Brown University). Moderator Michael Littman (Brown University).
- Invited talk talk with JB Crozet about systemic risk of modelling for the London Market Actuaries Group, Lloyds London17 April 2014.
- Talk with JB Crozet at RAA Cat Modelling conference, 10 February 2015, Orlando Florida, on systemic risk of risk modelling.
- Invited talk “What is a fair distribution of brains?” at TransVision 2014., École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. 21 November 2014. http://youtu.be/rysVTPRr7YA
- Invited speaker at conference “Are there limits to evolution?” at Cambridge University 25 September 2014, topic: Cosmological and technological limits to evolution: the impact of intelligence on long-term evolution.
- Talk “Biological threats: Error and Terror” at CSER presentation 19 September 2014 to German research networks at Foreign Department, Berlin.
- Invited lecture at the seminar “Emerging technologies and the future of humanity” at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 17 March 2013.
- Invited speaker at conference “The Brain Mapping Initiatives: Foundational issues at New York University”, talk “Being nice to virtual babies and animals: the ethics of large scale neural simulations” 6 December 2013.
- Keynote talk: “What do cars think of trolley problems: ethics for autonomous cars” at BAI2013 13-15 November 2013, Plzen, Czech Republic.
- Invited panel discussion at Beijing Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI13) on “AI: what if we succeed?” with Joanna Bryson, Henry Kautz, Sebastian Thrun and Stuart J. Russell. http://ijcai13.org/slides_and_other_material
- Panel about medical robotics at EU Science: Global Challenges, Global Collaboration (ES:GC2), European Parliament, Brussels.
- Opening invited talk at the 2012 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference 9-13 July 2012, “The Robot and the Philosopher: charting progress at the Turing centenary” http://www.aleph.se/presentations/The%20robot%20and%20the%20philosopher.pdf
- Keynote talk at Oxford Capital Partners Forum, “Preparing humans for the world of tomorrow” 14 September 2011
- Whole brain emulation: the logical endpoint of neuroinformatics? Talk at Google, May 27 2010.
- Beyond the skull: extended minds, neural interfaces and brain emulations, talk at Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement, Manchester 9-11 April 2010.
- Models of Technological Singularity, Talk at AGI10 conference 5-8 March 2010, Lugano, Switzerland.
- Ethics of Brain Implants, talk at European Future Technologies conference, Prague, 21-23 April 2009
- Cloud Superintelligence, talk at ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Linz, 5 September 2009
- The Blue or the Pink Pill: are Enhancements Gendered? Talk held at the ENHANCE workshop on cognitive enhancement Stockholm 26-27 April 2006.
- Genius as a commodity: cognitive enhancement technology and scenarios of its social effects, talk held at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science November 1-5, 2006 Vancouver, B.C, Canada
- Cognitive Divide or a Mind-Meld? : Scenarios of Cognitive Enhancement, talk held at TransVision06, August 17-19: University of Helsinki, Finland.
- Memory Modification and Authenticity, talk held at Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights, May 26-28, 2006, Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California.
- Biotechnology and the promise of tailor-made medicine, invited talk held at the Amigo Society, Brussels, in 21 February 2006
- The Transhumanist Vision, talk held March 9 at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares as part of ‘Segundas Jornadas sobre Convergencia Ciencia-Tecnología,’ sponsored by the Vodafone Foun13 July 2015: Invited speaker at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2015), July 12-17 Killarney, Ireland. Topic: “Ethics and large-scale neural simulations: when do we need to start caring for networks, rather than about them?”
- 28 June 2015: Talk at the Finfar XVI: Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Seminar, organized by the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR) and the Finnish Federation of Learned Societies (TSV), in Mariehamn, Åland. Topic: “Neural Chernobyl or Eternal Sunshine? Cognitive Enhancement in Science Fiction, Transhumanism and Bioethics”
- 19 May 2015: Invited speaker at the Royal Physiographic Society spring colloquium, Lund. Topic: the role of culture in research innovation.
- 1 May 2015: Panel discussion on “Threat of Intelligence?” at Societal Implications of Robotics Symposium (SIRoS), organized by the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative, Brown University. Participants: Micah Clark (ONR), James Hughes (Trinity College), Stefanie Tellex (Brown University). Moderator Michael Littman (Brown University).
- 17 April 2014: Talk with JB Crozet about systemic risk of modelling for the London Market Actuaries Group, Lloyds London.
- 13 March 2015: Participant in workshop Philosophy meets Internet Engineering: Ethics in Networked Systems Research, Oxford Internet Institute.
- 27 February 2015: Panel discussion on technology assessment of human cognitive enhancement, PACITA conference Berlin.
- 10 February 2015: Talk with JB Crozet at RAA Cat Modelling conference, Orlando Florida, on systemic risk of risk modelling.
- 27 January 2015: Lecture on transhumanism and human enhancement, Uppsala University
- 3-5 January 2015: Invited participant at Future of Life Institute conference The Future of AI: Opportunities and Challenges, Puerto Rico. Signatory to the Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: an Open Letter circulated at the conference (my commentary at http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/opinion/view/283, “Artificial intelligence: don’t be evil and make things better”)ation.
- Friendly Superintelligence, talk held at Extro5: Shaping Things to Come, June 15 – June 17, 2001 San Jose, California.
- Anders Sandberg, Robert Söderberg. Computer Generation: Visions and Demands The Third International Conference on the Military Applications of Synthetic Environments and Virtual Reality, MASEVR’97, Sweden.
- Amplifying Cognition: Extending Memory and Intelligence, talk given at Extro3: Extropy Institute’s 3rd conference, The Future of the Body and Brain/Future Infrastructure, August 9-10 1997, San Jose.
- Speaker: “Fostering a Resilient Humanity” – Thought for Food 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, February 13th 2015
- Speaker: “Resolved: Climate Change will Not Destroy the World but Something Else Will” – Debate at the Durham Union Society, February 27th 2015
- Speaker: “Biotechnology: Promise and Peril” – POST Impact Forum, London, June 11th 2015
- Moderator: “Risks vs Benefits of Emerging Technology” – Hello Tomorrow, Paris, June 25th 2015
- Speaker: “Existential Risk and Biotechnology” – Effective Altruism Global, San Francisco, August 2nd 2015
- Systemic Risk of Modelling in Insurance, White Paper by the Systemic Risk of”A Pragmatic Vindication of Epistemic Utility Theory” at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, May 2015delling Working Party
- Imprecise Credences from Imprecise Values at the University of Bristol, May 2015
- Organizer / technical agenda author: The Future of AI: Opportunities and Challenges, Puerto Rico, 2015 (in collaboration with the Future of Life Institute)
- “Capturing cycles with time series data mining algorithms and agent-based tools: bounded rationality and imperfect competition in insurance markets”, (joint with Iqbal Owadally, Jessica Lin, Rasaq Otunba, Martin Boyer, and Douglas Wright), Presented in the Research Seminar at the Bank of England
- “Time series data mining techniques for the identification and measurement of insurance cycles”, (joint with Iqbal Owadally, Jessica Lin, Rasaq Otunba, and Douglas Wright), Presented in the 19th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
- Invited Speaker: “Future impacts of machine intelligence” Global Risk Summit, Spain (September 2015)
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Technology strategy and existential risk” Internation Conference, Berlin (September 2015)
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Astronomical Stakes, Big Picture” and Panellist: “Superintelligence” EA Global, San Francisco (August 2015)
- Invited Speaker: “The Other Edge: Mitigating the Downside of Tech” A.T. Kearney CEO Retreat, San Francisco (June 2015)
- Conference Session Chair: “Dethroning Moloch: Aligning incentives for long-term futures” Sci-Foo, San Francisco (June 2015)
- Invited Speaker: “Transhumanism: Man and machine and how they merge” and Panellist: “The Future of Work” 24 Hour Conference, Germany (June 2015).
- Invited Speaker: “Artificial Intelligence: Are we engineering our own obsolescence?” Intelligence Squared Digital Summit, London (June 2015).
- Invited Lecture: “Can We Reshape Humanity’s Deep Future? Possibilities, Risks, Dilemmas”, School of Advanced Research, New Mexico (June 2015).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Technology and the Future of Work” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottowa (June 2015).
- Invited Panellist: “Social and economic impacts of Machine Learning” Royal Society, London (May 2015).
- Invited Speaker: “Links between the Present and the Deep Future” and Panellist “What do these technological advancements really mean for us?” Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford (May 2015).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence” Digital Economic Forum 2015, Switzerland (May 2015).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Technology, strategy and the future of machine intelligence” TEC Campus, Mexico (April 2015).
- Invited Speaker: “Superintelligence” Thiel Capital LLC, San Fransisco (April 2015).
- Invited Speaker: “Machines that learn” TED, Vancouver (March 2015).
- Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence” Technology Futures Group, London (March 2015).
- Invited Speaker: “Superintelligence” Deepmind, London (February 2015).
- Keynote Speaker: Talk on the future of humanity, existential risk and superintelligence. Parliament Street, London (February 2015).
- Invited Speaker: “Future of humanity and emerging technologies” Istanbul, Turkey (February 2015).
- Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence” Harold Stoner Clarke lectures, California (February 2015).
- Opening Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Sustainable Luxury Forum, Geneva, Switzerland (February 2015)
- Keynote Speaker: Future of Life, artificial intelligence conference. Puerto Rico (January 2015).
- Invited talk talk with JB Crozet about systemic risk of modelling for the London Market Actuaries Group, Lloyds London17 April 2014.
- Invited talk “What is a fair distribution of brains?” at TransVision 2014., École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. 21 November 2014. http://youtu.be/rysVTPRr7YA
- Invited speaker at conference “Are there limits to evolution?” at Cambridge University 25 September 2014, topic: Cosmological and technological limits to evolution: the impact of intelligence on long-term evolution.
- Talk “Biological threats: Error and Terror” at CSER presentation 19 September 2014 to German research networks at Foreign Department, Berlin.
- 9 December 2014: Participant in workshop on military bioethics, FHI/ELAC Oxford.
- 8 December 2014: Talk “How do we ask the right questions?” at Big Data Science in Medicine, Oxford.
- 8 December 2014: Participant in workshop on cyber warfare, FHI/ELAC Oxford.
- 21 November 2014: Invited talk “What is a fair distribution of brains?” at TransVision 2014., École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. http://youtu.be/rysVTPRr7YA
- 21 November 2014: Roundtable discussion with Miguel Benasayag, Vincent Billard and Didier Coeurnelle about therapy and enhancement. TransVision 2014.
- 22 October 2014: Talk on cognitive enhancement to the Oxford Psychology Society, Wadham College.
- 9-10 October 2014: Participant in nuclear war workshop, organised by the Global Challenges Foundation, Oxford.
- 7 October 2014: Presentation brainhacking project proposal VW Foundation, Hannover
- 3 October 2014: Lecture on systemic risk of risk modelling, ENTRE conference, Madrid.
- 25 September 2014: Invited speaker at conference “Are there limits to evolution?” in Cambridge, topic: Cosmological and technological limits to evolution: the impact of intelligence on long-term evolution.
- 19 September 2014: Talk “Biological threats: Error and Terror” at CSER presentation to German research networks at Foreign Department, Berlin.
- 11-12 September 2014: Talk “That is not dead which can eternal lie: physical constraints on the aestivation hypothesis” at second annual meeting of the UKSRN, 11-12 September 2014, Birkbeck College, London.
- 4 July 2014: Speaker: “Trans-human ethics: emerging technologies and the human condition”, Consorci Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo Barcelona (CUIMPB) – Centre Ernest Lluch, Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona.
- 3 July 2014: Speaker at “FTI Breakfast Briefing on systemic risk of risk modelling” (Business conference), FTI, London Capital Club, London.
- 26 June 2014: Presentation about FHI-AMlin collaboration to business conference on Catastrophe Risk Management 2014, Infoline, The Hatton, London.
- 11 June 2014: Discussion: “Limits of space colonization”with Andrew Snyder-Beattie, Vis Viva Society, Delft, Holland.
- 10 April 2014: Discussion with students and faculty on cognitive enhancement and morphological freedom. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Holland
- 9 April 2014: Lecture on transhumanism and happiness. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Holland
- 1 April 2014: Lecture Bortom Människan (“Beyond humanity”), Uppsala University, Sweden
- 17 March 2013: Invited lecture at the seminar “Emerging technologies and the future of humanity” at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- Speaker: “The Economic Transition to Human-Algorithm Networks” – Innoprom, Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 11th 2014
- Speaker: “The Arrival of Machine Intelligence” – Global CIO Summit 2014, Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, October 23rd 2014
- Speaker: “Replaced by robots? The challenges and opportunities of automation for the workforce”, Oxford Martin School, 13 March 2014Speaker: “The future of employment”, IPPR European Jobs and Skills Summit, IPPR and JP Morgan, London, 1 April 2014
- Speaker: “The future of employment”, 4ij Skane Summit, Lund, Sweden, 2 June 2014
- Speaker: “The future of employment”, OMS Advisory Council, Oxford Martin School, Oxford, 10 June 2014
- Panellist: “The digital economy”, Unionen, Visby, Sweden, 1 July 2014
- Speaker: “Reinforcement learning and the reward engineering principle”, AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford, 25 March 2014
- Speaker: “Intelligence explosion: what and why?”, Artificial Models of Natural Intelligence group, University of Bath, 8 April 2014
- Speaker: “What could we do about intelligence explosion?”, Workshop on Future of Artificial Intelligence, AAMAS 2014, AAAI Paris, 6 May 2014
- Organizer: “MIRIxOxford: Developing a Technical Agenda for AI Safety”, 15 July 2014
- Presentation “How can a Long-Run Perspective Help with Strategic Cause Selection?”, Good Done Right Conference, Oxford, 9 July 2014
- Presentation “Will the future be good or bad?”, Centre for Effective Altruism, July 2014
- Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Liberal Democrat HQ, London (December 2014).
- Keynote Speaker: “Man v. Machine: Is Humankind threatened by its own Devices?” Yas Viceroy, Abu Dhabi (November 2014).
- Speaker: “Superintelligence” Oxford Martin School, Oxford (October 2014).
- Speaker: “Superintelligence” Cheltenham Book Festival, United Kingdom (October 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Evolution on Superintelligence”, Symposium on Media Evolution, Cologne (October 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Google, Mountain View (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Seattle Town Hall, Seattle (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, University of California, Berkeley (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Google, Mountain View (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Microsoft Research Lab, Seattle (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Chicago Council on Science and Technology, Chicago (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, FLI and Harvard Effective Altruism, Harvard, Boston (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Noblis, Washington (September 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Ethical Considerations in Cognitive Enhancement”, 18th Meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues”, Washington (August 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy”, Conference, Centre of Effective Altruism, University of Oxford (July 2014).
- Presenter: “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, Royal Society of Arts, London (July 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “The Machine Intelligence Revolution”, Workshop on Politics and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, London School of Economics (June 2014).
- Panellist: “Artificial Intelligence”, Forum on AI, Oxford Union, (June 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Existential Risks and the Future of Intelligent Life”, Science and Fiction Dialogue, University of Basel (May 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Engaging with the Humanities”, Saïd Business School (May 2014)
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “New Technologies?”, Moogfest 2014, Asheville (April 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Age of Wonder Conference, Eindhoven (March 2014).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: “Superintelligence”, Google@Thought, Brussels (March 2014).
- Speaker: “Moral Trade”, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, 5 Feb 2014
- Attendance: Systemic Risk Conference, Oxford, 1112 February 2014
- Speaker: “Improving cost-effectiveness analysis”, Poverty Action Lab, MIT, Cambridge MA, 15 April 2014
- Speaker: “Cost-effectiveness analysis in two dimensions”, Priority Setting in Global Health 2020, Bergen, 1113 May 2014
- Speaker: “Moral Trade”, Good Done Right, a conference on effective altruism, Oxford, 8 July 2014
- Speaker: “How to save hundreds of lives”, Global Scholars Symposium, Rhodes House, Oxford, 18 May 2014
- Speaker: “The timing of labour aimed at reducing existential risk”, MIRIxOxford Workshop: developing a technical agenda for AI safety”, Oxford, 15 July 2014
- Invited lecture at the seminar “Emerging technologies and the future of humanity” at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 17 March 2013.
- Invited speaker at conference “The Brain Mapping Initiatives: Foundational issues at New York University”, talk “Being nice to virtual babies and animals: the ethics of large scale neural simulations” 6 December 2013.
- Keynote talk: “What do cars think of trolley problems: ethics for autonomous cars” at BAI2013 13-15 November 2013, Plzen, Czech Republic.
- 6 December 2013: Invited speaker at conference The Brain Mapping Initiatives: Foundational issues at New York University, talk “Being nice to virtual babies and animals: the ethics of large scale neural simulations”.
- 12 November 2013: Uehiro Seminar with Rebecca Roache and Hannah Maslen on “Human enhancement and punishment”.
- 4 November 2013: Invited speaker about ethics at workshop “The Human Dimension – Army Science Planning and Strategy Meeting” organised by the Army Research Labs, Potomac, USA
- 14 November 2013: Keynote talk: “What do cars think of trolley problems: ethics for autonomous cars” at BAI2013, Plzen, Czech Republic.
- 15 October 2013: Lunchtime talk “Modelling the systemic risks of modelling ” about the FHI/Amlin systemic risk collaboration at CRESS, University of Surrey.
- 9 August 2013: Invited panel discussion at Beijing Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI13) on “AI: what if we succeed?” with Joanna Bryson, Henry Kautz, Sebastian Thrun and Stuart J. Russell. http://ijcai13.org/slides_and_other_material
- 5 July 2013: Lecture “Spamming the universe: very long range colonisation and the Fermi question” at SETI session of NAM2013, St. Andrews.
- 5 July 2013: Poster “Hunters in the dark: game theory analysis of the deadly probes scenario” at NAM2013, St. Andrews. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50947659/huntersinthedark.pdf
- 27-28 June 2013: Invited participant in International Risk Governance Council meeting in Zürich about slow-moving risks.
- 24 June 2013: Lecture on neurosurveillance, The 2nd Ethics of Surveillance Conference, University of Leeds
- 20 April 2013: Presentation of the neuroscience and neuroethics of love, at VW workshop Münster.
- 19 April 2013: Lecture “The future of enhancement”, Mind-Symposium on Cognitive Enhancement & Brain Training, Münster. http://symposium.mensa.de/programm.html
- 9 April 2013: Lecture on transhumanism, Uppsala University.
- 8 April 2013: Lecture on brain emulation to the Lansner Group at KTH, Stockholm.
- 15 March 2013 – Talk on “Whole brain emulation: technology, feasibility and ethics” at department of philosophy, Gothenburg University.
- 14 March 2013 – Talk on “Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes” at department of statistics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg.
- 12 March 2013 – Talk “Building better brains: the science and ethics of cognitive enhancement” at King’s College, London.
- 11 March 2013 – Talk at Human Sciences symposium “Human Enhancement: How far can we go?” at UCL, London.
- 8 March 2013 – Panel about medical robotics at EU Science: Global Challenges, Global Collaboration (ES:GC2), European Parliament, Brussels.
- 5 March 2013 – Talk on cognitive enhancement at Oxford/Tokyo Neuroethics Research Exchange Workshop, Ertegun House, Oxford.
- 5 Febrary 2013 – Lecture on cognitive enhancement together with Hannah Maslen for medical ethics for law studens course, Oxford.
- 10 December 2013 – Lecture “Ethics of Whole Brain Emulation” at AGI-Impacts conference, St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
- Presentation “How to compare broad and targeted attempts to shape the far future”, Centre for Effective Altruism, July 2013
- Invited Speaker: “Superintelligence: Risks Related to the Future of AI?”, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies’ (PIIRS) Research Community on Global Systemic Risk (Princeton 09 December 2013).
- Invited Speaker: “Problems and Paradoxes in Anthropic Reasoning”, Anthropics: Selection Effects & Fine-Tuning in Cosmology (Oxford 2-4 December 2013).
- Invited Opening Keynote Speaker: Re. Work Technology Summit. (London 18-19 September).
- Invited Keynote Speaker: ”Sermons for the century” NESTA, FutureFest 2013. (London 28-29 September).
- Invited Speaker: ”What it means to be human” Technology Frontiers Summit 2013, The Economist, (London, 5-6 March 2013).
- Invited Speaker: ”Global Risk”. CEO Oxford Leadership Seminar, Beyond Business. (Oxford 5 June 2013).
- Invited Speaker: Futurism Panel Discussion. Founders Forum UK 2013. (London 1213 June 2013).
- Invited Closing Keynote Speaker: ”Evolving relationship between humans and technology”. Guardians Activate London Summit 2013. (London 9 July).
- Invited Speaker Panel Discussion: ”Reducing vulnerability, improving capacities and managing risks”, ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment, United Nations Economic and Social Council. (Geneva, Switzerland 15-17 July 2013).
- Ricardo J. Quinones Distinguished Lecturer. Claremont McKenna Gould Center for Humanistic Studies series on “Technology and Humanity” (Claremont, CA: 13-14 February 2012)
- Opening invited talk at the 2012 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference 9-13 July 2012, “The Robot and the Philosopher: charting progress at the Turing centenary” http://www.aleph.se/presentations/The%20robot%20and%20the%20philosopher.pdf
- 20 October 2012: Invited talk “Handling the unknowable and undecidable: rational decisionmaking about future technology” at the Alcor30 conference, Scottsdale, Arizona.
- 20-21 September 2012: Invited participant in EU-US workshop “Converging nano-bio-info-cognitive S&T for responsible innovation and society: Convergence, Research, Governance and Innovation” at IMEC, Leuven Belgium http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/stoa/dv/06a_eu-us_worksh_leuven_/06a_eu-us_worksh_leuven_en.pdf
- 9 July 2012: Opening invited talk at the 2012 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, “The Robot and the Philosopher: charting progress at the Turing centenary” http://www.aleph.se/presentations/The%20robot%20and%20the%20philosopher.pdf
- 12 June 2012: Invited talk “Biometrics and Future Transparency” at meeting of the Biometrics Working Group (http://www.cesg.gov.uk)
- 10 May 2012 Invited talk “The One-Way Mirror of Time: Biometrics, Spoofing and the Transparency of the Future” at the Tabula Rasa project workshop on biometrics, Rome. http://www.tabularasa-euproject.org/events/spoofing-and-antispoofing-the-wider-human-context30 January 2012: Talk on enhancement ethics for the Medical Law class.
- 21-22 April 2012: Conference on memory enhancement, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich. Part of the Volkswagen Stiftung project “Apples and Oranges”. Gave talk on the ethics of memory enhancement. http://www.neuroethik.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/memory-enhancement-program.pdf
- 16 February 2012, Invited speaker for the Transformational Technologies I Workshop, organised by the Global Futures Forum, Washington DC. Talk about cognitive enhancement.
- 15 April 2012: Lecture on the future challenges for liberalism, Stureakademin, Stockholm.
- 12 April 2012: Lecture on transhumanism at Uppsala University.
- 1 February 2012: Invited talk at the Balliol positive philosophy group: “Human enhancement: how much better would it be if we become better?”
- Invited Panelist: “Human and Cognitive Enhancement: Do We Want Smarter, Faster, Better Humans?” Oxford Martin School Seminar Series: “Can Emerging Technologies Save the World?” (Oxford: 2 February 2012).
- Invited Speaker: “Human Cognitive Enhancement”, Human Enhancement: A Symposium at Green Templeton College (Oxford: 23 November 2011).
- Keynote speaker at conference ‘Beyond AI: interdisciplinary aspects of artificial intelligence’, December 8-9 2011, Pilsen, University of West Bohemia
- Keynote talk at Oxford Capital Partners Forum, “Preparing humans for the world of tomorrow” 14 September 2011
- December 8: Keynote speaker (“Taking AI Seriously”) at conference ‘Beyond AI: interdisciplinary aspects of artificial intelligence’, December 8-9 2011, Pilsen, University of West Bohemia
- November 30: “The Enhanced Jury: cognitive bias and enhancement in court” Talk at workshop “Presenting DNA Evidence” at Center for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford.
- October 20: Commenter at ‘Smart implants: therapeutic solutions, security and human enhancement’ at the Wellcome Trust, organized by Cesagen – Emerging Science, Changing Society (Lancaster and Cardiff Universities), and the Innovation in Society group at the University of Central Lancashire.
- October 3: Gave talk on “The feasibility of whole brain emulation” at PT-AI 2011 conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- October 20: Commenter at ‘Smart implants: therapeutic solutions, security and human enhancement’ at the Wellcome Trust, organized by Cesagen – Emerging Science, Changing Society (Lancaster and Cardiff Universities), and the Innovation in Society group at the University of Central Lancashire.
- 7 June 2011: Lecture on ethics of brain emulation, FACETS project, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 14 May 2011: Invited talk, “The freedom to explore: human enhancement, extensions and the ethics of the unknown” at Transhumanism Meets Design conference, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
- 9 May 2011: Invited keynote speech “The billion-body problem: taking human (ir)rationality into account for planetary defense” at the 2011 IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Bucharest.
- 23 March 2011: Invited as external commenter at Challenges for ICT for Public Policy expert workshop, London.
- 16 March 2011, Invited lecture “Kognitionsförbättring – fungerar det, och spelar det någon roll?” (Cognitive enhancement – does it work, and does it matter?) at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
- 11 February 2011, Invited talk “Copying the mind? The ultimate limits and possibilities of computational neuroscience” at NeuroArts Conference, University of Plymouth.
- Invited Session Chair: “Intergenerational Justice- What Do We Owe Future Generations?”, Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University. (Oxford: 27 January 2011)
- Invited Speaker: “Superintelligence: The Control Problem”, EWB-Oxford [part of Engineers Without Borders UK] (Oxford: 22 November 2011.)
- Invited Panelist: “The Future of Mankind”, Leaders of Change Summit ?stanbul World Political Forum 2011. (Istanbul, Turkey: 14-15 March, 2011)
- Invited Speaker: “Existential Risk and AI”, Oxford Transhumanist Society. (Oxford: 3 November 2011).
- Invited Speaker: “Superintelligence: The Control Problem”, Cerberus: The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society at Balliol College, University of Oxford. (Oxford: 26 October 2011).
- Invited Speaker: “Superintelligence: The Control Problem”, Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence 2011 Conference. (Thessaloniki, Greece: 3-4 October 2011)
- Invited Speaker: “What Are the Most Important Global Challenges in Terms of Emerging Technologies?” and Session Leader: “Technology and Communications”, Global Scholars’ Symposium (Gates Scholars of Cambridge University and Rhodes Scholars of Oxford University). (Oxford: 6-7 May 2011)
- Invited Panelist for The Economist session: “The World in 24 Years: Megatrends and Context for Large Scale Change”, 8th annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. (Oxford: 1 April 2011)
- Whole brain emulation: the logical endpoint of neuroinformatics? Talk at Google, May 27 2010.
- Beyond the skull: extended minds, neural interfaces and brain emulations, talk at Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement, Manchester 9-11 April 2010.
- Models of Technological Singularity, Talk at AGI10 conference 5-8 March 2010, Lugano, Switzerland.
- 8 December 2010, Invited talk “The fuzzy brain: extended minds, neural interfaces and collective intelligence” at the 2011 Uehiro/Carnegie/Oxford Conference, St. Cross Colelge, Oxford
- 7 December 2010, Talk “The value of better brains: cognition enhancement and the personal and social benefit of cognition” at Oxford neurosociety conference (InSIS and the European Neuroscience and Society Network).
- 23 November 2010, Talk “Enhancing and extending the mind: the science and ethics of cognitive enhancers” at the Oxford Medical Humanities group, Merton College, Oxford.
- 3 November 2010, Respondent to Gero Misenböck at James Martin advanced research seminar.
- 4-6 October, Anders Sandberg, Carl M. Shulman, Implications of a software-limited singularity, the 8th Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Munich
- 1 July 2010: Short presentations on Artificial intelligence and memory enhancement at conference on the ethics of emerging technologies, arranged by BEP, Oxford.
- 17 June 2010: Invited talk at the Oxford Institute of Ageing on “The Ethics of Life Extension”.
- 7 June 2010: Invited for comments at human enhancement technology workshop in Brussels, organized by the EU SESTI project (Scanning for Emerging Science and Technology Issues).
- 5 June 2010: Invited talk on ethics of whole brain emulation at First Virtual Workshop on Advancing Substrate Independent Minds (ASIM2010)
- 21 May 2010: Talk at Stanford Maths Department, “The Geometry of Politics”
- 6 May 2010: Talk on “How much is a better brain worth? Cognition enhancement and the personal and social benefit of cognition” at conference The Posthuman Condition, Aarhus University.
- 11 April 2010: Invited talk “Beyond the skull: extended minds, neural interfaces and brain emulations” at “Beyond the Body” conference, Manchester University.
- 8 March 2010: Presentation “Models of technological singularity” at AGI10 Conference, Lugano, Switzerland
- 23 January 2010: Talk on enhancement of juries at memory and neuroscience conference, Tucson, Arizona.
- 20 January 2010: James Martin seminar talk on enhancement of juries, Oxford.
- 2 February 2010: Lectured on cognition enhancement for the Medical Law and Ethics class, Oxford University (organized by Imogen Gould).
- Invited Agenda Council Expert Member: World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda. (Dubai, UAE: 29 November – 1 December 2010)
- Invited Speaker: “Technology: What the Consumer Wants”, 10th Annual Bloomberg Businessweek European Leadership Forum. (London, UK: 23-24 November 2010)
- Invited Speaker: “Can We Foresee the Future?”, 31st Symposium of the VeerStichting. (Leiden, Netherlands: 7-8 October 2010)
- Respondent to presentation by Milan Cirkovic on “Philosophical Aspects of SETI: Undermining the Traditional Skeptical Arguments”, James Martin Seminar, Oxford Martin School. (Oxford: 13 October 2010)
- Invited Guest Speaker: “The Future of Humanity”, Oxford University Alumni Weekend. (Oxford: 26 September 2010)
- “Existential Risks”, Conference on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. (Oxford: 1 July 2010)
- Invited NGO Presentation: “Cyber-Security and Risk Management”, BAE Systems and the Oxford Martin School. (Oxford: 15 June 2010)
- Invitee Panelist: “Waiting for Superman”, Nexus Conference: What Is Next for the West? Superman Meets Beethoven. (Amsterdam, Netherlands: 11 June 2010)
- Invited Agenda Council Expert Member: World Economic Forum’s Global Redesign Summit. (Doha, Qatar: 30-31 May 2010)
- Keynote Address: “Reducing Existential Risks”, Humanity + Conference. (London, UK: 24 April 2010)
- Invited Speaker: Hard Problems in Social Sciences, Harvard University. (Cambridge, MA, USA: 10 April 2010): http://bit.ly/Hard_Problems_Harvard.
- Invited Speaker: “Global Catastrophic Risks: Methodology of the Big Picture”, Future Scenarios Seminar for ICCD Leatid European Center for Jewish Leadership and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC ). (Oxford: 6 March 2010)
- Invited NGO presentation on catastrophic risk and risk models to Amlin (Lloyd’s Insurance Group) and the Oxford Martin School. (Oxford: 5 February 2010)
- Ethics of Brain Implants, talk at European Future Technologies conference, Prague, 21-23 April 2009
- Cloud Superintelligence, talk at ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Linz, 5 September 2009
- 15 November 2009, Invited to participate as commenter at meeting “Human dignity in Medicine and Business”. held at Ethikzentrum FSU Jena, Germany.
- 11 November 2009, James Martin research seminar “If it is bad, it is probably worse than you think”, Oxford.
- 1 August 2009, “Ethical assessment of neuromodulation techniques: their differences and commonalities”, Conference Human Nature and Self Design, Universität Tubingen
- 30 June 2009, “Clinical ethics of cognitive enhancement”, UK clinical ethics network conference 2009, Oxford.
- 30 April 2009, “Hybrid Humans”, talk at CEA-LETI, MINATEC, Grenoble
- 22 April 2009, “Ethics of brain implants” Talk in the “Bridging the gap between the brain and machine” session at European Future Technologies Conference 2009, Prague
- 28 January 2009, “Whole brain emulation: feasibility, timescales and key challenges”, James Martin research seminar, Oxford
- “Global Catastrophic Risks”, Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors. (Oxford: 1 October 2009)
- “Whole Brain Emulation”, Pennsylvania University, Program for Cognitive Sciences. (Philadelphia, USA: 3 December 2009)
- “Socio-Economic and Ethical Issues in Weak Cognitive Enhancement”, Cognitive Enhancement Symposium. (Oxford: 27 June 2009)
- Opening Keynote Speaker: “Global Risks and Opportunities”, Guardian Activate Summit 09. (London, UK: 1 July 2009)
- Keynote Address: “Global Risks and Emerging Technologies”, 16th Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. (Twente, Netherlands: 8-10 July 2009)
- Invited Keynote Address: “Global Catastrophic Risks”, Booz Allen private event. (McLean, VA, USA: 15 June 2009)
- Invited Panelist: “Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes The Multiverse”, The World Science Festival. (New York, USA: 10-14 June 2009).
- Invited Speaker: “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?”, The World Science Festival. (New York, USA: 10-14 June 2009).
- Invited Keynote Address: “Human Enhancement: Methods, Issues, and Timelines”, TISA Symposium at the London Chamber of Commerce. (London, UK: 10 June 2009)
- “Transhumanism: A Critical Look”, The Oxford-Manchester Moral Science Workshop. (Oxford: 18 May 2009)
- “Issues in Assessment: Techniques for Biological Risk”, Developing New Approaches to Biological Risk Assessment, organized by the Royal Society and The International Council for the Life Sciences. (London, UK: 19 February 2009)
- “Future of Humanity Issues”, Doug’s Lunch, Balliol College graduate luncheon discussion, Oxford University. (Oxford: 12 February 2009)
- “Transhumanism: A Critical Appraisal”, Pennsylvania University, Center for Bioethics. (Philadelphia, USA: 2 December 2009)
- “Existential Risks”, Pennsylvania University, Center for Bioethics. (Philadelphia, USA: 2 December 2009)
- 3 December 2008, “The anthropic shadow: observation selection effects and human extinction risks”, James Martin research seminar, Oxford
- 5 November 2008, “Human engineering solutions to climate change”, with Matthew Liao and Rebecca Roache, James Martin research seminar, Oxford.
- 24 September 2008, Invited lecture on the relation between science fiction and science, part of the project Beyond Future, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm Sweden
- 3 June 2008, “A Device for turning coffee into theorems”, James Martin research seminar, Oxford.
- “Rational Philanthropy” with Martin Rees, Science Foo Camp, organized by Nature, Google, and O’Reilly. (Googleplex, California, USA: 8-10 August 2008)
- “Dignity as a Quality”, President’s Council on Bioethics and Harvard Law School. (Cambridge, MA, USA: 24 September 2008)
- Panel Debate on “The End of the World”, Oxford Union, Oxford University. (Oxford: 22 November 2008)
- “Cognitive Enhancement”, Panel organized by Nature magazine. (London, UK: 13 October 2008)
- Invited Speaker: “The Ethics of Artificial Minds”, Robot & Rights, organized by BioCentre: Centre for Bioethics & Public Policy. (London, UK: 15 January 2008)
- “Extraterrestrials and the Fermi Paradox” with Martin Rees, Science Foo Camp, organized by Nature, Google, and O’Reilly. (Googleplex, California, USA: 8-10 August 2008)
- “Existential Risks” with Martin Rees, Science Foo Camp, organized by Nature, Google, and O’Reilly. (Googleplex, California, USA: 8-10 August 2008)
- Invited Discussion Leader: “Do We Need Gurus?”, Agora. (Scottsdale AZ, USA: 30 March 2008)
- Opening Presentation: “Catastrophic Risks”, Policy Foresight Programme Workshop. (Oxford: 21 July)
- Keynote Address: “Global Catastrophic Risks”, Global Catastrophic Risks Conference (Oxford: 18 July 2008)
- “Global Catastrophic Risks: An Overview”, Book Launch of the book Global Catastrophic Risks (Oxford: 17 July 2008)
- Invited speaker: “The Future of Humanity”, TransVision 2007 Conference. (Chicago, USA: 24-26 July 2007)
- Invited Speaker: “Ethical Objections to Life Extension”, Securing the Longevity Dividend Symposium. (Chicago, 23 July 2007)
- Keynote Speaker: “The Future of Humanity”, Sedbergh Festival of Ideas (Sedbergh, UK: 20-22 July 2007)
- Invited Speaker: “Enhancements: A Practical Approach”, Enhancement and Genetics. (Jena, Germany: 22-24 June 2007)
- Keynote Presentation: “Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, and Challenges for Policy”, Oxford Forum for the Medical Humanities: Neuroethics Symposium. (Oxford: 11 May 2007)
- Invited Session Chair:”Policy Issues”, The Human Enhancement Colloquium at the British Ambassador’s Residence (The Hague, Netherlands: 10 May 2007)
- “Dignity and Enhancement”, Cognitive Enhancement Conference organized by the ENHANCE project. (Stockholm, Sweden: 27-28 March 2007)
- After-Dinner Keynote Speaker: “The Future of Humanity”, Pension Fund Investment World Conference for pension fund managers. (Berlin, Germany: 5 November 2007)
- “The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for Human Enhancement”, St. Cross College Colloquium, Oxford University. (Oxford: 30 October 2007)
- “The Ethics of Human Enhancement: The Reversal Test”, St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Oxford University. (Oxford: 6 November 2007)
- Featured Speaker: “My Challenges for the Next 15 Years”, The Second Annual Global Creative Leadership Summit “a unique platform for the best minds of our generation”, organized by LTB Foundation with support from the UN Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP). (New York City, USA: 23-25 September 2007)
- Invited Plenary Speaker: “The Values that Should Guide Us in Managing the Fast-Expanding Frontier of Science and Technology”, Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society 2007. (Deuville, France: 11-13 October 2007)
- “The Future of Humanity”, James Martin School Seminar, James Martin 21st Century School. (Oxford: 25 October)
- “The Reversal Test: Status Quo Bias in Bioethics”, The 11th Annual Jus Lecture at the University of Toronto. (Toronto, Canada: 27 September 2007)
- Invited Presentation: “Ethical and Social implications of Cognitive Enhancement”, Cognitive Enhancement Workshop, organized by the British Medical Association (London, UK: 24 November 2006)
- Invited Debate Panellist: “Will Our Grandchildren be Robotic?”, The BBC Festival of Ideas, broadcast on Radio 3. (Liverpool, UK: 5 November 2006)
- “Dignity and Enhancement”, James Martin Advanced Research Seminar, Oxford University (Oxford: 20 October 2006)
- Special Invited Forum Speaker: “The Big Picture for Humanity”, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Abingdon, UK: 6 October 2006)
- Invited Keynote Address: “Political and Ethical Challenges for Society from the Prospect of Life-Extension”, 2nd World Aging & Generations Congress. (St. Gallen, Switzerland: 27-29 September 2006)
- Invited Lecture: “Wiser and Smarter”, Annual Investors Forum 2006, organized by Oxford Capital Partners, Saïd Business School. (Oxford: 20 September 2006)
- Invited Closing Address: “What Is Enhancement?”, TransVision 2006. (Helsinki, Finland: 17-19 August 2006)
- Invited Opening Plenary: “An Evolutionary Heuristic for Identifying Promising Human Enhancements”, TransVision 2006. (Helsinki, Finland: 17-19 August 2006)
- “A Practical Approach to Human Enhancement”, Satellite meeting to the 8th World Congress in Bioethics. (Beijing, China: 5 August 2006)
- Invited Lecture “The Future of Aging”, The Wellcome Trust. (London, UK: 26 July 2006)
- Invited Presentation: “Human Enhancement and Sports Enhancement”, The Science and Technology Select Committee, House of Commons (UK parliament). (London, UK: 21 June 2006)
- Invited Closing Keynote: “Posthuman Dignity and the Rights of Artificial Minds”, Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights Conference, IEET and Stanford University Law School (San Francisco, CA, USA: 26-28 May 2006)
- Invited Speaker: “The Simulation Argument”, for Stanford University’s ‘annually hosted special lectures by speakers who have made distinguished contributions to the theory or applications of symbolic systems’. (Palo Alto, CA, USA: 19 May 2006)
- Invited Keynote: “Existential Risks and Artificial Intelligence”, The Singularity Summit (Palo Alto, CA, USA: 13 May 2006)
- “Consequences of Cognitive Enhancement”, ENHANCE workshop presentation (Oxford: 4 May 2006)
- Invited Lecture: “Human Capital”, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. (London, UK: 22 March 2006)
- Invited Plenary Presentation: “Cognitive Enhancement”, The World Forum for Science and Civilization. (Oxford: 14-17 March 2006)
- Invited Presentation: “Existential Risks: What’s the Probability That Humanity Will Go Extinct in the 21st Century? What Can We Do to Reduce the Probability?”, The World Forum for Science and Civilization. (Oxford: 14-17 March 2006)
- Invited Keynote Address: “Human Enhancement, Transhumanism, and Genetics”, Great Expectations: On Our Genetic Future Conference (Amsterdam, Netherlands: 21 February 2006)
- Invited Speaker: “Transhumanist Values”, Institute for Science, Innovation & Society. (Nijmegen, Netherlands: 21 February 2006)
- Invited Speaker: “Cognitive Enhancement”, Forbidding Science: Balancing Freedom, Security, Innovation & Precaution Conference (Tempe, AZ, USA: 10-11 January 2006)
- Invited Closing Keynote Presentation: “The Transhumanist Vision”, The Future of Human Nature: Science, Ethics, and Democracy, University of Utah. (Utah, USA: 2006)
- The Blue or the Pink Pill: are Enhancements Gendered? Talk held at the ENHANCE workshop on cognitive enhancement Stockholm 26-27 April 2006.
- Genius as a commodity: cognitive enhancement technology and scenarios of its social effects, talk held at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science November 1-5, 2006 Vancouver, B.C, Canada
- Cognitive Divide or a Mind-Meld? : Scenarios of Cognitive Enhancement, talk held at TransVision06, August 17-19: University of Helsinki, Finland.
- Memory Modification and Authenticity, talk held at Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights, May 26-28, 2006, Stanford University Law School, Stanford, California.
- Biotechnology and the promise of tailor-made medicine, invited talk held at the Amigo Society, Brussels, in 21 February 2006
- Invited Speaker: “Status Quo Bias in Bioethics”, DeCamp Seminar Series at the Princeton Center for Human Values. (Princeton, NJ, USA: 30 November 2005)
- Invited Presentation: “Recent Developments in the Ethics of Extreme Life-Extension”, Aging Population 2005 Conference. (Oxford: 7-9 September 2005)
- Invited Closing Keynote Presentation: “Transhumanism and Bioethics: A Map of the Terrain and Recent Theoretical Developments”, TransVision05 (Caracas, Venezuela: 22-24 July 2005)
- Invited Opening Keynote Presentation: “Introduction to Transhumanism”, TransVision05 (Caracas, Venezuela: 22-24 July 2005)
- Invited Presentation: “The Three Biggest Problems for Humanity”, TED-GLOBAL Conference (Oxford: 12-15 July 2005)
- Invited Presentation: “Transhumanism An Overview”, Social Science Week, James Martin Institute, Oxford University. (Oxford: 23 June 2005)
- Invited Presentation: “Status Quo Bias in Bioethics: The Case for Cognitive Enhancement”, The Oxford-Scandinavia Ethics Summit. (Oxford: 13-15 June 2005)
- Invited Presentation: “Status Quo Bias in Bioethics?”, Sports & Medicine Ethics Conference. (Stockholm, Sweden: 23-24 May 2005)
- Invited Speaker: “Predictions from Infinite Cosmological Models: Towards a Solution of the Measure Problem”, Multiverse and String Theory: Towards Ultimate Explanations in Cosmology. (Palo Alto, CA, USA: 19-21 March 2005)
- Invited Speaker: “Human Cloning: Ethics and Consequences”, Oxford Cafe Scientifique, part of the Oxford Women’s Festival. (Oxford: 8 February 2005)
- Invited Presentation: “Self-locating Belief in an Infinite Spacetime”, Foundational and Philosophical Issues in Spacetime Theories, organized by the European Science Foundation. (Oxford: 14-17 March 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Facing Science”, Images of Science Conference, organized by the All European Academies of Science. (Amsterdam, Netherlands: 6-7 December 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Status Quo Bias and Human Enhancement”, How Can Human Nature Be Ethically Improved? conference (New York, USA: 18-19 November 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “The Simulation Argument”, Filosofiska Fakulteten, Lund University. (Lund, Sweden, 4 November 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Transhumanism”, The Face of the Future: Technosapiens? (Washington D.C., USA: 28-29 October 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?”, ExtroBritannia (Oxford: 9 October 2004)
- Invited Keynote Address: “Human Enhancement: Answering the Why Question”, TransVision05 conference (Toronto, Canada: 6-8 August 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Introduction to Transhumanism”, TransVision05 conference (Toronto, Canada: 6-8 August 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Religion and Transhumanism”, Faith, Transhumanism and Hope Symposium. (Toronto, Canada: 5 August 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Responding to Brent Waters”, Christian-Transhumanist Conversation workshop. (Oxford: 26 July 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Observation Selection Theory”, Degrees of Belief Conference. (Konstanz, Germany: 22-24 July 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Extending Human Reach: In Defense of a Posthuman Future”, A Posthuman Future. (Oxford: 19-22 July 2004)
- “The Paralysis of Ethics in Our Possibly Infinite Universe”, Aristotelian Society Mind Association Joint Session. (Canterbury, UK: 9-12 July 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Bayesian Epistemology and Indexical Information”, Bayesian Epistemology Workshop. (London, UK: 28 July 2004)
- Invited Presentation: “Human Enhancement and Dignity”, The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. (Brussels, Belgium: 15 June 2004)
- “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?”, 12th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science. (Ovideo, Spain: 2003)
- “Enhancing Human Capacities: Transhumanist Ethics of Technology”, 12th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science. (Ovideo, Spain: 2003)
- Invited Guest: “Transhumanism”, Oxford Theological Seminar series. (Oxford: 4 August 2003)
- Invited Speaker: “The Ethics of Superintelligent Machines”, InterSymp’2003 Conference, organized by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics. (Baden-Baden, Germany: 28 July-2 August 2003).
- “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?”, Aristotelian-Mind Association Joint Conference. (Belfast, UK: 18-20 July 2003)
- “Observation Selection Theory and the Many-Worlds Version of Quantum Mechanics”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference. (Belfast, UK: 18-20 July 2003)
- Invited Keynote: “Our Human and Posthuman Dignity”, Transvision 2003: The Adaptable Human Body Conference, Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA: 27-29 June 2003)
- Invited Speaker: “Our Human and Posthuman Dignity”, The Ian Ramsey Centre. (Oxford: 6 June 2003)
- Seminar Presentation: “Human Genetic Enhancements”, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, (Oxford: 2003)
- Invited Speaker: “Observation Selection Effects and Cosmological Fine-tuning”, Multiverse Symposium, Stanford University. (Palo Alto, CA, USA: 27-29 March 2003)
- Invited Presentation: “Observation Selection Theory and the Sleeping Beauty Problem”, Oxford-Princeton Probability Workshop. (Oxford: 17-19 March 2003)
- “Anthropic Reasoning and Observation Selection Effects”, 12th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science. (Ovideo, Spain: 2003)
- Invited Presentation: “In Defense of Posthuman Dignity”, European Science Foundation Workshop on Science and Human Values. (Oxford: 2003)
- Invited Presentation: “The Simulation Argument: Why the Probability that You are Living in the Matrix is Quite High”, St. John’s College Moral Sciences Seminar, Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK: 28 October 2003)
- Invited Presentation: “Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy”, Liverpool Stapleton Society, Liverpool University. (Liverpool, UK: 27 October 2003).
- “Observation Selection and the Big Picture”, Accelerating Change Conference 2003, Stanford University. (Palo Alto, CA, USA: 12-14 September 2003)
- Invited Presentation: “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?”, Birkbeck Philosophy Society. (London, UK: 11 February 2003)
- “The Epistemological Mystique of Self-Locating Belief”, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting (Chicago, USA: 24-27 April 2002)
- “The Transhumanist Perspective on Germ-Line Enhancements”, The End of Natural Motherhood? Artificial Wombs and Designer Babies (Tulsa, OK, USA: 22-23 February 2002)
- Invited Speaker: “Transhumanist Priorities”, The Technology of Humanity Conference: Can Technology Contribute to the Quality of Life?, Institute of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology. (Chicago, USA: 5 April 2002)
- “Are Cosmological Theories Compatible with All Possible Evidence?”, The Philosophy of Science Association. (Milwaukee, WI, USA: 7-10 November 2002)
- “Desire, Time, and Ethical Weight”, Aristotelian-Mind Association Joint Session (UK: 5-6 July 2002)
- “Are Cosmological Theories Compatible with All Possible Evidence?”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science (UK: 4-5 July 2002)
- “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?”, Fourth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy. (Lund, Sweden: 14-18 June 2002)
- “The Ethics of Superintelligence”, 4S Conference (Boston, MA, USA: November 2001)
- “The Ethics of Superintelligence”, Yale Bioethics Group. (New Haven, CT, USA: 2 May 2001)
- “Bangs, Whimpers, Shrieks, and Crunches: How Things Could Go Horribly Wrong”, Foresight Senior Associates Gathering, Stanford University. (Palo Alto, CA, USA: 20-22 April 2001)
- Invited Lecture: “Who Belongs to the Moral Community? Towards Transhumanist Ethics”, Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics, Sacred Heart University. (Fairfield, CT, USA: 10 October 2001)
- “Existential Risks”, TransVision 2001. (Berlin, Germany: 22-24 June 2001)
- “The Epistemological Mystique of Self-Locating Belief”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference (York, UK: 5-6 July 2001)
- “Transhumanist Values”, Morality in the 21st Century (Newark, NJ, USA: October 2001)
- Friendly Superintelligence, talk held at Extro5: Shaping Things to Come, June 15 – June 17, 2001 San Jose, California.
- Invited Lecture: “The Future of Humankind, Transhumanism, and Technology”, The Yale Philosophical Society. (New Haven, CT, USA: 11 October 2001)
- “Cortical Integration: How to Store Complex Representations in Long-Term Memory”, ASSC4. (Brussels, Belgium: 29 June 2 July 2000)
- Discussion Moderator: “Workshop on Robotics”, Foresight Senior Associates Gathering, Stanford University. (Palo Alto, CA, USA: 19-21 July 2000)
- “Observation Theory and Its Applications in Cosmology, Evolution Theory and Other Fields”, Transvision MM. (London, UK: 15-16 July 2000)
- “How to Derive Observational Consequences from Cosmological Theories”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference. (Sheffield, UK: 6-7 July 2000)
- “Transhumanism”, (Invited speaker) Inform: Seminar XXIV. (London, UK: 6 May 2000)
- “A Subjectivist Theory of Objective Probability”, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference. (Nottingham, UK: 8-9 July 1999)
- Invited Speaker: “Towards a Transhumanist Medical Ethics”, TransVision99. (Stockholm, Sweden: 5-6 May 1999)
- “What Is Transhumanism?”, Ninth General Assembly of the World Future Society. (Washington, D.C., USA: 28 July 1 August 1999)
- Invited Speaker: “Presenting Transhumanism to the Media”, Extro-4. (Berkeley, CA, USA: 7-8 August 1999)
- Anders Sandberg, Robert Söderberg. Computer Generation: Visions and Demands The Third International Conference on the Military Applications of Synthetic Environments and Virtual Reality, MASEVR’97, Sweden.
- Amplifying Cognition: Extending Memory and Intelligence, talk given at Extro3: Extropy Institute’s 3rd conference, The Future of the Body and Brain/Future Infrastructure, August 9-10 1997, San Jose.
- “Predictions from Philosophy?”, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Technology (Dusseldorf, Germany: 1997)