Confirmed invited Speakers with preliminary talk titles
Patrick Butlin (Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford, UK), “AI consciousness: The big picture and some details”
Joanna Bryson (Hertie School Berlin), “How Consciousness Relates to Morality: When Artificial Consciousness Is Unimportant”
Leonard Dung (Ruhr-University Bochum), “Artificial consciousness, natural kinds, and scientific virtues”
Michele Farisco (Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Bioethics Unit, Biogem Institute, Ariano Irpino (AV), Italy), “The challenge of finding indicators of consciousness in AI”
François Kammerer (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Archives Henri Poincaré, Strasbourg), “Moral significance in artificial systems: if not consciousness, then what?”
Johannes Kleiner (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Institute for Psychology, University of Bamberg), “Can no-go theorems help evaluate the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems?”
Lucia Melloni (Ruhr-University Bochum), Talk title TBA
Winnie Street (Senior Researcher on the Google Paradigms of Intelligence Team and fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London), “Could an AI be sentient? Theoretical, behavioural and ethical approaches”