Research on Humans, Technology and Everything in between.

I explore how humans and machines “think” and act, and how emerging technologies are rewiring cognition, culture and society.

Writing

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Essay · Noema Magazine · May 2026

How To Protect Human Autonomy In An Age Of AI

It’s time to move past the fantasy that humans are absolutely self-sovereign.

Illustration: Andreion De Castro for Noema Read the essay

Talks & Conferences

• 2026Penser et vivre l’autonomie cognitive avec l’IATalkNuit des données · Festival Sciences et Lettres · École Normale Supérieure – PSL
  Paris, France · September
• Mimesis and the Problem of Algorithmic CulturesPanelInternational Congress “Aristotélisme et guerres culturelles” · University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); École Normale Supérieure; CNRS
  Paris, France
• Latent Spaces as Pseudo-Autopoietic EcologiesPresentationFrance–Berkeley research initiative “The Latent Spaces of Culture” · UC Berkeley; Sorbonne Nouvelle
  Paris, France · June
• Disrupted Autonomy: Information Overload and Multi-Modal AI SystemsPresentationInternational Workshop “Science, Critique and Opinion: Challenges for Consensus” · Pembroke College, University of Oxford
  Oxford, UK · May
• Enacting Human Autonomy to Better Think Through AI-Driven Cognitive DisruptionPresentationWorkshop “Ethics of AI-Mediated Collaboration” · Sorbonne University
  Paris, France · April
• 2025Rethinking the Problem of Autonomy. Human Cognition and Agential Disruption in the Age of AI TechnologiesPresentationColloques du GIS UTSH (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique pour l’Unité des Technologies et des Sciences de l’Homme)
  Paris, France · October
• Cognition, Information and Réseaux: Travailler avec Michel Serres aujourd’huiTalkRencontres Michel Serres, 5th edition
  Agen, France · October
• The Problem of Autonomy: Cognitive Co-evolution and Self-OrganizationPresentationPhenomenology of Care International Workshop “Hikikomori, Mental Health and Post-Corona Society” · Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; University of Tokyo
  Tokyo, Japan · May
• For a Pedagogy of Post-Humanist Autonomy: The Legacy of Michel Serres and Cognitive Disruption in the Age of ‘Generative’ AIPresentationMichel Serres Study Days “Information and Recognition: Rethinking Education” · Stanford University; École Normale Supérieure – PSL; Fondation Michel Serres – Institut de France
  May
• Le problème de l’autonomie: de la biologie à la cognition distribuéePresentationSéminaires de la Clinique Contributive – Territoire Apprenant Contributif (TAC) · Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation (IRI), Centre Pompidou
  Seine-Saint-Denis, France · January
• 2024Human Autonomy and AI-Powered Technologies: Mapping Cognitive AssemblagesPresentationInternational Workshop “Questioning Human Technogenesis” · Maison Française d’Oxford
  Oxford, UK · November
• L’idéologie scientifique à l’ère des intelligences artificielles (with Prof. Giuseppe Longo)PresentationSéminaire d’études Canguilhemiennes · École Normale Supérieure – PSL University
  Paris, France · November
• Human and Non-Human Cognitive Autonomy: Cultural and Educational ChallengesPresentationDoctoral Conference · Maison Française d’Oxford
  Oxford, UK · October
• AI as Infrastructural Cognition? Challenges for Traditional Understandings of Human Autonomy, Agency and PerceptionPresentationEuropean Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Conference · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Amsterdam, Netherlands · July
• Frontiers in Endosomatization: AI and ExorganismTalkAntikythera Talks · Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
  London, UK · June
• Learning Beyond Biomimesis and Xenomorphic DesignTalkAntikythera Talks · Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
  London, UK · June
• AI’s Cognitive Ecosystem: Infrastructures, Multi-Modal Systems and Distributed PerceptionPresentationDoctoral Conference “AI for the Sciences” · Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
  Paris, France · May
• Technological Risks and Algorithmic Governance: Mapping Cognitive Entanglements with More-than-Human AgencyPresentationInternational Studies Association (ISA) Conference “Putting Relationality at the Center”
  San Francisco, USA · April
• Multi-Modal AI and Cognition: The Future of CreativityPanelEELISA Workshop on AI Ethics and Law · Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  Budapest, Hungary · March
• 2023Cultural Heritage Research in the Digital AgePresentationAustrian Academy of Sciences; Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
  Vienna, Austria · October
• Re-framing Agency and Autonomy in the Time of Brain-Inspired Computing and the QuantumPresentation17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CLMPST 2023), “Science and Values in an Uncertain World”
  Buenos Aires, Argentina · July
• Just a Matter of Method? Neuromorphic Technologies, Brain-Style Computing and the Return of CyberneticsPresentationThe Deep Learning Conference · Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University; Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, NYU
  New York, USA · March
• From Embodied Mind to Synthetic IntelligencePresentationEELISA Conference / Spring School “Ethos+Tekne: A New Generation of AI Researcher” · PSL; Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
  Pisa, Italy · March
• 2022New in MLParticipationNeurIPS 2022, the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
  New Orleans, USA · November
• Reframing Data Assemblages: Apparatuses, Diffraction and Methodological ChallengesPresentationCritical Digital Humanities International Conference 2022 · Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
  Toronto, Canada · September
• Reframing Autonomy: Agency and Human-Machine Interaction Through QuantumPresentationInternational Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) Conference · Stanford University; Santa Clara University
  San Francisco Bay Area, USA · July
• Cognitive Assemblages and AI TechnologyPresentationPSL Artificial Intelligence Conference · École des Mines, Campus Pierre Laffitte
  Sophia Antipolis, France · June

Projects

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Grant-funded research · Cosmos Institute

Pragmatic Autonomy

A technical and theoretical model of autonomy in humans and machines, built to map where the two converge and where they diverge.

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Research · Antikythera · 2024

Cognitive Infrastructures

A design-development studio on AI as a physical, planetary-scale force built into infrastructure, shaping how systems sense and act. Studio researcher, Central Saint Martins, London, June to July 2024.

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For research collaborations, talks, consulting and writing.