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!!AI: Beyond Humanity
!Interdisciplinary Conference
!Academia Europaea Bucharest Hub Academia Română, Bucharest\\7-8 May 2026 

!Conveners: [Sorin Antohi|Member/Antohi_Sorin] MAE, Gheorghe Ștefan, and Andrei Păun

!Partners: „Mihai Drăgănescu” Artificial Intelligence Institute of the Romanian Academy, Master Communications International, Muzeul Municipiului București

!With generous support from the Romanian Academy, Banca Transilvania, ComputerLand
![Event website|https://acadeurobucharest.eu/2026/04/22/ai-beyond-humanity]
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To mark the first anniversary of the [Academia Europaea Bucharest Knowledge Hub|https://acadeurobucharest.eu] (established on 9 May 2025 on the basis of an agreement between the Academia Europaea and the Romanian Academy), the [first edition of the Hub Days|https://acadeurobucharest.eu/2026/04/22/academia-europaea-bucharest-hub-days] is organized. Two public interdisciplinary conferences are convened on 7-8 May: __AI: Beyond Humanity__, and __The Emporion Road: From the West to the East__.
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On this occasion, the creation of the Hub’s Cantemir Medal and Ioan Petru Culianu Prize will be announced. The two distinctions are endorsed by the Board of the Academia Europaea.
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The event is generously sponsored by the Romanian Academy and Banca Transilvania, and supported by numerous partners.
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Videos of the event will be streamed, then archived on the [Hub’s homepage|https://www.acadeurobucharest.eu]) and YouTube Channel ([Academia Europaea Bucharest Hub – YouTube|https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SDXZwBjGMouX8dsBA8cVA?app=desktop]).
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Join the [Zoom Meeting|https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81804211983?pwd=xw1CXHbckLk44qmHb0iBbXsXpzORK0.1]\\
__Meeting ID:__ 818 0421 1983\\
__Passcode:__ 473282\\
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__AI: Beyond Humanity__, an academic, public, and professional event, builds on two successful previous conferences: __The Challenge of AI__, under the aegis of the Academia Europaea, with support from the Romanian Academy (World Trade Center, Bucharest, 11-12 June 2024, organized by Master Communications International and sponsored by several companies; its details, videos, and related texts are at [https://www.mastercommunications.ro]), and __AI and Humanity__, 8-9 May 2025 under the double aegis of the Academia Europaea and of the Romanian Academy, and in collaboration with Master Communications International (full program and videos are archived at the addresses above).
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This time, the discussion starts from AI and keeps returning to it, bringing together scholars and other professionals from many disciplines. The main focus will be on the massive impact of AI on the definition, production, evaluation, canonization, dissemination, and subversion of knowledge in all fields. The opening remarks, “Towards a Posthuman Noosphere?”, will set the tone for a humanist reflection, looking at the increasing delegation to AI of everything humans used to do (and be) in what Teilhard de Chardin called ''noosphere''. But AI is of course an instrument some humans, not all of them and not necessarily the best (-intended), have built and trained, experimented with, and spread to all forms of human activity/existence, while lay people were looking in disbelief and awe, entertaining both high expectations and growing distrust, ultimately engaging in a passionate mind game about endless possibility and apocalypse. We convene this conference to examine the entire ongoing phenomenon from as many angles as we can.
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The current event, like the previous one, has two parts: A. An academic part, open to the public. B. An academic and professional part, for registered participants only. The videos are to become available online at the same addresses.
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