About PL Neuro Workshops
PL Neuro workshops are a series of small, invite-only meetings whose purpose is to accelerate the development of next generation technologies – like neural augmentation and human-like AI – in a manner that is targeted to benefit humanity. Toward this goal, PL Neuro workshops bring together a deliberately cross-disciplinary group of scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and philanthropists with technical expertises across multiple disciplines of neuroscience and AI.
PL Neuro Salon 2025:
Scaled human neural data towards a science of intelligence
Human neural interface technology is at a turning point with significant investment in new devices and companies each year. As these devices enter clinical trials, large-scale human neural data collection is on the near-term horizon. This provides the opportunity to collect sufficient data to unlock insights about how brains compute that transcend biology and inform a substrate-independent “science of intelligence”. This, in turn, would qualitatively expand the capacities of next generation neurotechnologies, hastening their development, commercialization, and adoption.
Ensuring this outcome, however, requires an alignment of priorities across key stakeholders in the field such that the human neural data that is collected is useful not only for the clinical goals of current neural interface companies, but also for pushing forward intelligence science.
Thus, the PL Neuro Salon 2025 is built around the following set of questions:
- What kinds of human neural data are most valuable for understanding intelligence and unlocking next generation neurotechnologies?
- What developments in the neural interface field are required to collect such data at scale?
- What modeling tools and theoretical frameworks do we need to extract insight from scaled data?
- How should we structure the ecosystem – funding, policy, talent development, and institutions – to support this progress?
The answers to these questions can shape the neurotechnology ecosystem such that human capability itself may be transformed in the coming years. In addition, these questions must be asked and answered through the lens of promoting and ensuring human dignity, autonomy, and flourishing.
