The Dubai AI Festival 2025 is proud to host Tobias Rees, founder and CEO of Limn AI, as one of its most thought-provoking speakers. At the cutting edge of philosophy, art, and artificial intelligence, Rees brings a radically unique voice to the global AI conversation—one focused not on what AI can do for us today, but on what entirely new kinds of thought, life, and possibility AI makes possible.
As both a deep thinker and visionary builder, Rees challenges us to move beyond utilitarian debates and explore the discontinuities, the ruptures, and the new ontologies that AI introduces into the human experience.
Limn AI: Where Philosophy Meets Artificial Intelligence
Rees is the founder and CEO of Limn AI, a small but influential R&D studio that operates at the crossroads of AI research, philosophy, and the arts. Limn’s mission is to ask the deep, often unspoken questions about technology:
What difference does AI make?
- What new forms of thought, subjectivity, and reality does it bring into the world?
- How can we invent alongside AI, rather than merely deploy it?
Through its work, Limn AI does not simply build tools; it builds provocations, experiments, and philosophical devices—seeking to understand and shape the emerging techno-human condition.
Global Research Leadership at the Intersection of Futures
In addition to his work at Limn, Tobias Rees holds two prestigious fellowships that reflect the breadth and significance of his intellectual contributions:
- Senior AI2050 Fellow at Schmidt Sciences, a visionary program that supports individuals exploring the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on society and science.
- Senior Visiting Fellow at Google Quantum AI Lab, where he engages with quantum computing researchers to reflect on the ontological consequences of computational futures.
These roles place Rees at the heart of critical inquiry around what it means to be human in the age of increasingly autonomous and intelligent machines.
Keynote at Dubai AI Festival 2025: “Inventing the New with AI”
At the Dubai AI Festival 2025, Tobias Rees will deliver a keynote unlike any other:
“Inventing the New: Thinking and Building Beyond the Human with AI.”
This session will delve into:
- The conceptual shifts brought about by AI that challenge our inherited categories of thought
- How AI can serve as a creative partner in philosophical and artistic inquiry
- Why we must go beyond problem-solving to inventing new worlds, new senses, and new futures
His talk will resonate with philosophers, artists, scientists, futurists, and AI developers interested in reimagining what AI is for—not only what it can do.
Tobias Rees’ keynote will be a defining moment of the Dubai AI Festival 2025, inviting audiences to think deeper, wider, and more creatively about AI—not as a tool, but as a force for existential and cultural invention.
