The challenges humanity faces in the era of rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. Yuval Harari’s work Homo Deus and the messages from the 2024 Davos Forum. The shaping of expectations to change or entirely replace humans. Questioning the uniqueness and necessity of human existence.

What lies ahead for us? The speed of technological development, the lack of meaning, and the low level of public dialogue. Humanity as a passive observer of its own future.

Science, marketing, and reality. The main differences between human and artificial intelligence. How substantiated is the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI)?

The identification of the human being with a machine endowed with biochemical properties performing specific functions. Predictions about synthesizing a new human or creating machines to replace humans. The engineering of biological, cyborg, and non-organic “beings.” Ambitions to eliminate human "deficiencies"—death, suffering, and limitation. Rendering the human existence meaningless, and predictions of the end of human history.

• Spearkers: Aram Pakhchanyan, Kharen Musaelian
• Host: Fr. Mesrop Aramian