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Keynote

Ancient voice: A bio-inspired tool for sentient AI

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  • Date
    8 July 2025
    Timeframe
    15:00 - 15:20 CEST
    Duration
    20 minutes
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    What if a crucial biological role of voice isn’t speaking?

    What if voice co-evolved with our vertebrate bodies, not to form language, but to support homeostasis and inform interoception, the sense of being in a body?

    Leslie Helpert shares insights from her 25 years of work with Deep Voice, reframing voice, not for its linguistic use, but for its subsurface role as a bidirectional signal: one that encodes the body’s systems and simultaneously informs them, a master channel of internal communication.

    Drawing on computational physics, bioengineering, and evolutionary biology, she presents Deep Voice as an architecture for advancing what she calls biospatial data: a numeric representation of internal state. Just as geospatial data maps movement through the outer world, biospatial data represents the body’s interior dimensionality, what it feels like to be in the world.

    This talk examines intelligence and safety at the intersection of human biology and artificial design. Rather than framing technological acceleration as “forward” or “faster,” Deep Voice invites us to look underneath and inward, for bioinspired design solutions and integrative computational frameworks.

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