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Jennifer Prendki explains why AI needs to emulate life

Prendki describes how her work on large artificial-intelligence models shaped her view that current AI needs inspiration from living organisms.

By Paul Middlebrooks

30 July 2025 | 109 min watch

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In this “Brain Inspired” episode, Paul Middlebrooks talks with Jennifer Prendki, a particle physicist turned artificial-intelligence expert. Prendki believes continuing to scale AI will not result in the properties needed to ensure AI safety and a better future for humanity. Instead, she looks to biological life, and possibly consciousness, as a preferable path forward.

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