{"id":231008,"date":"2026-02-10T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/living-systems-alignment-agi-michael-levin-stephen-grossberg-verses-ai-break-down-the-future"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:18:28","slug":"living-systems-alignment-agi-michael-levin-stephen-grossberg-verses-ai-break-down-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/living-systems-alignment-agi-michael-levin-stephen-grossberg-verses-ai-break-down-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Living Systems, Alignment &amp; AGI: Michael Levin, Stephen Grossberg &amp; Verses AI Break Down the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DupofKXLJos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this powerful opening session of the Strong AI Summit, moderator Dr. Mahault Albarracin brings together legendary thinkers redefining the boundaries between biology, cognition, active inference, and AGI.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction by Dr. Mahault Albarracin.<br \/> 00:42 Why study living systems when designing AI?<br \/> 02:10 Dr. Michael Levin on biological intelligence and collective behavior.<br \/> 04:25 Dr. Dalton on active inference foundations.<br \/> 06:10 Prof. Stephen Grossberg on alignment and stable learning.<br \/> 09:05 Limits of biological analogies in AI design.<br \/> 11:45 Collective problem-solving and emergent goals.<br \/> 13:30 Closing reflections.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael Levin, pioneer in morphogenesis, bioelectric signaling, and the xenobot project.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Stephen Grossberg, the most cited computational neuroscientist and creator of ART theory.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dalton Sakadolsky, leading theoretician in Bayesian mechanics &amp; active inference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/living-systems-alignment-agi-michael-levin-stephen-grossberg-verses-ai-break-down-the-future\">Continue reading \u201cLiving Systems, Alignment &amp; AGI: Michael Levin, Stephen Grossberg &amp; Verses AI Break Down the Future\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this powerful opening session of the Strong AI Summit, moderator Dr. Mahault Albarracin brings together legendary thinkers redefining the boundaries between biology, cognition, active inference, and AGI. 00:00 Introduction by Dr. Mahault Albarracin. 00:42 Why study living systems when designing AI? 02:10 Dr. Michael Levin on biological intelligence and collective behavior. 04:25 Dr. Dalton [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}