Media
Audio/Video Interviews
2023: These Researchers Used A.I. to Design a Completely New 'Animal Robot' (Scientific American | March 6, 2023)
2023: Michael Levin TAMES Life (Podcast: Computing Up | March 5, 2023)
2023: Prof. Michael Levin, Prof. Irina Rish - Emergence, Intelligence, Transhumanism (Machine Learning Street Talk | February 10, 2023)
2023: Conscious Agents vs Cognitive Agents with Donald Hoffman and Michael Levin (Philosophy Babble | February 2, 2023)
2023: Animal Regeneration, Learning, & Memory (Podcast: Nature & Nurture | January 21, 2023)
2023: What are Xenobots, the world's first living and self-reproducing robot? Dr. Michael Levin and Dr. Josh Bongard (Podcast: DG Early-Morning Show | January 3, 2023)
2022: The Global Mind, Collective Intelligence, Agency, and Morphogenesis - Michael Levin & Joscha Bach (Podcast: Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | November 9, 2022)
2022: Engineering Life and Consciousness (Escaped Sapiens Podcast | November 17, 2022)
2022: Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots (Lex Fridman Podcast | October 1, 2022)
2022: Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition (Podcast: Thing in Itself with Ashar Khan | October 1, 2022)
2022: Can Cells Think? The Magic of Developmental Biology (John Templeton Foundation | August 9, 2022)
2022: Michael Levin | Karl Friston | Chris Fields on The Meta Hard Problem, Consciousness, and Babbling (Podcast: Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | June 30, 2022)
2022: Mark Solms and Michael Levin on the Attempt to Build and Test an Artificial Consciousness (Podcast: The Meaning Code | July 29, 2022)
2022: Mark Solms and Michael Levin discuss Consciousness, Cognition and Opponent Processing (Podcast: The Meaning Code | June 24, 2022)
2022: Developmental and Synthetic Biology, featuring Dr. Michael Levin (Podcast: Stem Cell Podcast | June 14, 2022)
2022: Dr. Michael Levin on Cellular Cooperation and Cognition (Podcast: The Rational View | June 11, 2022)
2022: A Theory of Everything: Michael Levin on Multi-Scale Intelligence and Teleophobia (Interview: European Institute of Science in Management | May 31, 2022)
2022: Collective intelligence of cells | Michael Levin (Podcast: Reason with Science with Jitender Dublad | May 26, 2022)
2022: The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman (Podcast: Evolution 2.0 | May 9, 2022)
2022: Professor Michael Levin (The Sceptically Inclined Science Podcast | May 4, 2022)
2022: Scaling Selfhood: Collective Intelligence from Cells to Economies (Podcast: The Musing Mind | May 2, 2022)
2022: Hacking the Blueprint of Life | Michael Levin (Podcast: Escaped Sapiens | May 2, 2022)
2022: Regeneration, Intelligence in Life & Memory - Dr. Michael Levin (Interview: The Sheekey Science Show | April 30, 2022)
2022: Can Bioelectrical Signals Reverse Aging? | Dr. Michael Levin (Podcast: Live Longer World | April 19, 2022)
2022: Athena Akiptis and Michael Levin | Cancer, Cheating, and Cell Communication (Podcast: Science of the Noosphere with David Sloan Wilson | April 18, 2022)
2022: A Conversation with Michael Levin (Good AI | March 4, 2022)
2022: Josh Bongard & Michael Levin: "Self Replicating Living Robots" (Soft Robotics Podcast | March 9, 2022)
2022: A New Class of Robots (Innovation Uncovered | March 2, 2022)
2022: Michael Levin, PhD: Limb Regeneration, Bioelectricity, and Why Neurons Aren't Special (The External Medicine Podcast | February 24, 2022)
2022: Regenerating limbs and electroceuticals (The Vance Crowe Podcast | February 21, 2022)
2022: Will This Revolutionize Biology? An interview with Michael Levin (Andrew Van Wagner, Substack | February 2, 2022)
2022: Xenobots (Podcast: The Other Animals | January 15, 2022)
2022: Bioelectric Networks & Cellular Motivations (Podcast: Demystifying Science | January 10, 2022)
2021: Episode 24: Michael Levin (Podcast: Cassettes | December 6, 2021)
2021: Michael Levin on Morphogenetics, Regeneration, Consciousness, and Xenobots (Podcast: Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal | November 17, 2021)
2021: Michael Levin: Where does cognition come from (The Vance Crowe Podcast | November 8, 2021)
2021: Episode 17: Michael Levin (Podcast: Cassettes | September 20, 2021)
2021: Mind Everywhere (Podcast: Many Minds | July 21, 2021)
2021: Mouse on a hill: The structure and function of agency (Podcast: Big Biology | June 3, 2021)
2021: Our Body is a Collection of Intelligent Organisms (Podcast: Bold Conjectures with Paras Chopra | May 25, 2021)
2021: Michael Levin on Growth, Form, Information, and the Self (Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast | February 1, 2021)
2020: The Future of Regeneration, Biology, and Anatomical Compilers (Podcast: Build the Future | December 2020)
2020: The Software of Cell Signaling: Michael Levin Researches How Cells Build Anatomies (Podcast: Finding Genius Podcast | November 17, 2020)
2020: Bio-Electricity For Regeneration and Cancer Control (Podcast: ideaXme | July 22, 2020)
2020: American Institute of Physics, Oral History Interview (American Institute of Physics (AIP) | June 20, 2020)
2020: Picasso Tadpoles: Michael Levin on the 'Dark Matter' of Biology (Podcast: Evolution 2.0 | April 10, 2020)
2020: Bioelectric Computation (Podcast: Big Biology | April 2, 2020)
2020: Xenobots: AI Enabled First Living Robots (Podcast: Science Rehashed | March 4, 2020)
2020: 'Xenobot' Soft Robotics With Michael Levin (Soft Robotics Podcast | February 20, 2020)
2019: Inspiring New Machine Learning Platforms with Bioelectric Computation with Michael Levin (TWiML & AI | July 15, 2019)
2018: Dr. Michael Levin: Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms Cells Use to Communicate During Development and Regeneration (People Behind the Science | August 13, 2018)
2017: Hacking our cells to grow new limbs (Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea | January 07, 2017)
Print Interviews
2022: How Xenobots reshape our understanding of genetics (Aeon Essays | August 30, 2022)
2022: A Conversation with Michael Levin (Good AI | March 4, 2022)
2022: Will This Revolutionize Biology? An interview with Michael Levin (Andrew Van Wagner, Substack | February 2, 2022)
2020: Is DNA Hardware or Software? (Grow by Ginkgo | June 29, 2020)
2020: American Institute of Physics, Oral History Interview (American Institute of Physics (AIP) | June 20, 2020)
Lecture Presentations
2023: Engineering with agential materials: from evolution to biological robotics (Engineering Life Initiative Seminar, Munich, Germany | February 16, 2023)
2023: Beyond the Brain: Multiscale Diverse Intelligence as Biological Inspiration for AI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Workshop at 2023 Conference, Washington, DC | February 14, 2023)
2023: The collective intelligence of cells during morphogenesis as a model for cognition beyond the brain (Mind, Technology, and Society (MTS) talk series, University of California Merced | January 23, 2023)
2023: From physics to mind: the journey of cognition seen through the lens of embryonic development (Life Perceives Symposium, University of Sussex | January 20, 2023)
2023: Bioelectric networks underlie the intelligence of the body: from evolution of cognition to electroceuticals for regenerative medicine (Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India | January 18, 2023)
2023: Diverse Intelligence: understanding and relating to unconventional biological, engineered, and hybrid agents (Mind-Machine Conference, University of Calicut, Kerala, India | January 18, 2023)
2023: Diverse Intelligence: uncoventional minds and plastic bodies as new inspiration for GAI (Intel Labs, discussion on Generalist AI beyond Deep Learning | January 11, 2023)
2022: Understanding the Collective Intelligence of Cells: bioelectrical navigation of anatomical morphospace (School of Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire | November 2, 2022)
2022: What do bodies think about? (Royal Society of Biology | October 5, 2022)
2022: Endogenous bioelectric controls of growth and form: from basic mechanisms to electroceuticals (TERMIS 2022, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society European Chapter Conference | July 1, 2022)
2022: Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces (Plenary Session: Spacious Spatiality 2022, Society for Multidisciplinary and Fundamental Research | May 24, 2022)
2022: From Engineered Organs to Living Replicating Robots (Inaugural Wyss Visionary Solutions Summit | May 20, 2022)
2022: The Electric Life of Cancer: Bioelectrical signals reveal, induce, and normalize cancer (Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Cancer and Evolution Series | March 18, 2022)
2022: Understanding the Collective Intelligence of Cells (Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Sydney | March 3, 2022)
2022: ICLR 2022 Workshop: From Cells to Societies: A conversation with Dr. Michael Levin (Good AI | February 23, 2022)
2022: IPAM conference on Collective Intelligence: "Plasticity without genetic change: bioelectric embryos & synthetic proto-organisms" (Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) | February 17, 2022)
2022: Webinar on regenerative medicine with Prime Movers Lab (Prime Movers Lab | February 16, 2022)
2022: TAME: Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (Workshop on the origins of goal directedness, Centre Leo Apostel, of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel | February 14, 2022)
2021: BBI International Webinar Series - Professor Michael Levin (Bristol BioDesign Institute | December 9, 2021)
2021: Xenobots 3.0: Living Robots That Can Reproduce (Wyss Institute webinar | December 1, 2021)
2021: UCF Center for Ethics, "Synthetic Living Organisms: Heralds of a Revolution in Technology & Ethics" (UCF College of Arts & Humanities | November 2, 2021)
2021: Ellison Institute Insights Forum panel discussion: information and cancer (Ellison Institute | October 21, 2021)
2021: Michael Levin: Bioelectric Networks Instruct Growth and Form: from pre-neural circuits to electroceuticals (University of Manchester Podcast | October 11, 2021)
2021: What are brains, anyway? (Michael Levin | October 11, 2021)
2021: Basal cognition and Artificial Intelligence (Michael Levin | September 28, 2021)
2021: Bioelectrics of cancer (Michael Levin | September 17, 2021)
2021: Bioelectric networks: Taming the collective intelligence of cells for regenerative medicine (Foresight Institute lecture | August 17, 2021)
2021: Michael Levin: Discussion of basal cognition framework - "The Computational Boundary of a Self" (ActInfLab Livestream #025.2 | July 13, 2021)
2021: Computationally Designed Organisms With Josh Bongard & Michael Levin (IEEE Soft Robotics Podcast | May 22, 2021)
2021: Dr. Michael Levin: Reading and Writing the Bio-Electric Morphogenetic Code (Progress, Potential, and Possibilities | February 4, 2021)
2020: Michael Levin - Can Organismal Pattern Homeostasis Suppress Cancer? (Cancer & Evolution Symposium | October 16, 2020)
2020: Robot Cancer: what the bioelectrics of embryogenesis and regeneration can teach us about unconventional computing, cognition, and the software of life (Keynote presentation: Artificial Life 2020 Conference | August 2020)
2020: Michael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life (TED Talks | June 2020)
2020: Endogenous Bioelectric Networks & Regenerative Medicine (Osher Center for Integrative Medicine - Grand Rounds | February 11, 2020)
2019: Taming Decision-Making by Cells and Organs: New Vistas for Regenerative Medicine and Artificial Intelligence' (Keynote address: Tufts University's Parents and Family Weekend | October 25-26, 2019)
2019: CHArT Talks: Endogenous bioelectric networks enable cell cooperation toward building anatomies (July 8, 2019)
2018: What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System (NeurIPS 2018, Montréal, Canada | December 5, 2018)
2017: Bioelectric Regulation of Regeneration (Interview with Dr. Michael Levin)
2017: Reading and Writing the Morphogenetic Code (Allen Frontiers Symposium | November 3, 2017)
2017: The Biology Revolution: A Computational Perspective (October 17, 2017)
2016: 30-minute presentation on bioelectrics in cancer
2013: Bioelectricity in cancer
2012: 'Science for the Public' interview (February 21, 2012)
2011: Endogenous bioelectrical signals in development, regeneration, and neoplasm; in Topical Talks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London. (Levin, M.)
2011: Left-Right Asymmetry in Embryonic Development: How epigenetic, biophysical forces and gene activity interplay to determine a major embryonic axis; in Topical Talks: The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London. (Levin, M.)