{"id":231010,"date":"2026-02-10T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/beyond-the-brain-michael-levin-on-living-intelligence-minds-in-the-era-of-ai"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:19:03","slug":"beyond-the-brain-michael-levin-on-living-intelligence-minds-in-the-era-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/beyond-the-brain-michael-levin-on-living-intelligence-minds-in-the-era-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Brain: Michael Levin on Living Intelligence &amp; Minds in the era of AI"},"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\/597q22UWiU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A conversation co-published by AI House Davos and Michael Levin\u2019s Academic Content (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmichaellevin\">@drmichaellevin<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>In this conversation, we explore how intelligence exists across all scales of life, from cells to collectives, and what this means for our understanding of AI, minds, and what it means to be human.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Michael Levin challenges the assumption that intelligence begins with brains, revealing how biological systems improvise, adapt, and solve problems in ways that go far beyond what our computational architectures attempt. From cognitive glue to the ethics of diverse intelligence, this interview questions the categories we\u2019ve inherited and asks what truly matters as we enter an era of radically different embodiments.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker.<br \/> Michael Levin (Director at Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University) <\/p>\n<p>Moderator.<br \/> Louisa Hillegaart (Founder\u2019s Associate, AI House Davos) <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 AI House Davos 2025<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/beyond-the-brain-michael-levin-on-living-intelligence-minds-in-the-era-of-ai\">Continue reading \u201cBeyond the Brain: Michael Levin on Living Intelligence &amp; Minds in the era of AI\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation co-published by AI House Davos and Michael Levin\u2019s Academic Content (@drmichaellevin) In this conversation, we explore how intelligence exists across all scales of life, from cells to collectives, and what this means for our understanding of AI, minds, and what it means to be human. Professor Michael Levin challenges the assumption that intelligence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231010","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=231010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}