Infinity, Intelligence, Reality

Some questions never lose their grip on us. What is reality? Is reality infinite? What is intelligence, and how does it reach the infinite? Can intelligence be built?

​Some questions seem suddenly urgent. Is intelligence being built now? What do the mathematical capabilities of today's AI systems mean for our quest to understand the universe and the infinite? Why does this matter for our work, our societies, and the morality and meaning in our lives?

​The Inaugural Emmy Network Dialogue brings together three of the world's most original thinkers, all Emmy Network Fellows at Keble College, University of Oxford, to discuss these questions and more. It's an unscripted, moderated conversation at the outer edge of mathematics, philosophy, and the science of intelligence.

​The Emmy Network, based at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and Keble College, Oxford, is a new kind of community built around the deepest questions in mathematics, philosophy, and computer science: the nature of infinity, reality, and intelligence, and how they fit together in the universe we inhabit. While these questions might seem esoteric at first glance, understanding them more deeply, and more interconnectedly, is bound up with building intelligent systems, with grasping our own minds, and ultimately with solving the most critical problems of our time. Emmy Network exists as a community to convene together the greatest minds around uncommon insights, translating them into real world impact.