Helen Edwards

Helen Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. She previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Meridian Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Quartz, and Transpower.

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Ideas

On Meaning, Meaning-Making, and the Human Life Well Lived

Humans are meaning-makers whose particular evolutionary history has given us a unique relationship to consciousness, mortality, and values

Helen Edwards, Dave Edwards May 10, 2025

Book cover of Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe, by Annaka Harris

Books

Annaka Harris: Lights On

A review of Annaka Harris' Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe

Helen Edwards May 10, 2025

Ideas

Introducing the New Artificiality Institute

A more meaningful future with AI starts here.

Dave Edwards, Helen Edwards May 4, 2025

Ideas

How AI Might Make Life Shapeless

A personal essay about "life's greatest invention."

Helen Edwards Apr 12, 2025

Ideas

Can AI Make a Perfect Clone?

Considering a future of generative ghosts.

Helen Edwards Apr 12, 2025

Cover image of The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, by Chris Hayes

Books

Chris Hayes: The Sirens' Call

A review of The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, by Chris Hayes

Helen Edwards Apr 12, 2025

Conversations

David Wolpert: The Thermodynamics of Meaning

A conversation with David Wolpert, Professor a the Santa Fe Institute about his recent paper on the thermodynamics of meaning.

Dave Edwards, Helen Edwards Apr 5, 2025

Cover image of Nicholas Carr's Superbloom

Books

Nicholas Carr: Superbloom

A review of Nicholas Carr's Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Helen Edwards Apr 5, 2025

Books

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What Is Intelligence?

A review of What Is Life?: Evolution by Computation, and What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds, by Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Helen Edwards Mar 17, 2025

Conversations

Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Michael Levin: The Computational Foundations of Life and Intelligence

A conversation with Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google) and Michael Levin (Tufts University) about two recente papers on the computational foundations of life and intelligence.