Ilya Kolmanovsky. Brain + Artificial Intelligence: instructions for living together 20 September 2026

On June 28 in Berlin, Ilya Kolmanovsky will tell us at a lecture for adults how to live in order to cooperate more productively with robots, to become not only stupider but also smarter, and also to notice in time that our brains have already entered into an eternal alliance with them without our knowledge.

To get the right picture from a neural network or useful advice from a virtual assistant, we come up with prompts. In turn, robots learn us and adjust their behavior to us. But what's most surprising is that we also change and adjust to the robots. What's really going on between our brains and AI?

Biologist and journalist Ilya Kolmanovsky proposes to discuss the ideas that concern scientists today - and then give the scientists your opinion.

• Is it true that with AI we will become not only stupider but also smarter?
• What is left for humans to do if artificial intelligence takes over all the complex tasks?
• What does AI know how to do but won't tell us how?
• What does AI already know about us and the world, but can't explain?
• What does it have to do with the unique abilities of children and how to stay a tadpole forever?

"The heroes of this talk are scientists and their volunteers, chess players and doctors, judges and financiers, children and dogs. And of course, neural networks," says Ilya Kolmanovsky.

Ilya Kolmanovsky is a candidate of biological sciences, science journalist, author of popular science books, host of the podcast "Naked Digger", traveler and a regular lecturer of "Direct Speech".