The Software Sustainability Institute and Lingnan University, Hong Kong, are proud to jointly feature a webinar on AI world models. The event will take place online on Friday 17 April between 9 and 10.30 BST.

As AI transitions from processing data to generating environments, this session asks the pivotal question: What happens when AI goes beyond simulating reality and begins actively building it?

Professor Sunil Manghani will challenge our understanding of cognition itself, asking whether AI’s capacity for “world-making” suggests reality is more computable—and more finite—than we ever imagined. 

Professor Harry Yang will unveil World Action Models (WAMs), a breakthrough framework that allows robots to “imagine” the physical consequences of their actions before moving, paving the way for a new generation of embodied physical intelligence. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the philosophical implications and technical breakthroughs defining how AI moves from seeing to making worlds.

The event will be moderated by SSI Fellow Gerui Wang.