Call: Towards Conscious AI Systems – AAAI Spring Symposium

CALL FOR PAPERS

TOWARDS CONSCIOUS AI SYSTEMS
AAAI Spring Symposium
Stanford, CA
March 25 – 27, 2019
http://diid.unipa.it/roboticslab/consciousai/

DEADLINE: November 2, 2018

SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss19 (look for this symposium)

The study of consciousness remains a challenge that spans multiple disciplines. Consciousness has a demonstrated, although poorly understood, role in shaping human behavior. The processes underpinning consciousness may be crudely replicated to build better AI systems. Such a ‘top-down’ perspective on AI readily reveals the gaps in current data-driven approaches and highlights the need for ‘better AI’. At the same time, the process of designing AI systems creates an opportunity to better explain biological consciousness and its importance in system behavior.

Measuring the components that may lead to consciousness (e.g., modeling and assessing others’ behaviors; calculating utility functions for not only an individual agent, but also an interacting society of agents) is increasingly important to address concerns about the surprising capabilities of today’s AI systems.

The symposium is an excellent opportunity for researchers considering consciousness as a motivation for ‘better AI’ to gather, share their recent research, discuss the fundamental scientific obstacles, and reflect on how it relates to the broader field of artificial intelligence and robotics.

Research on consciousness and its realization in AI systems motivates research to account for, with scientific rigor: the motivations of AI systems, the role of sociality with and between machines, and how to implement machine ethics.

The meeting will offer a platform to discuss the connection between AI systems and other fields such as psychology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and neuroscience.

TOPICS

Some of the topics that the symposium will cover are:

  • Recent work on conscious AI systems
  • Embodied conscious AI systems
  • Self-reflective higher-order AI systems
  • Ethical issues involving conscious AI systems
  • Trust in conscious AI systems
  • Social robotics and conscious AI systems
  • Consciousness, the theory of mind and artificial emotions
  • The role of episodic memory in conscious AI systems
  • Design strategies versus developmental approaches
  • Symbolic versus deep neural networks in conscious AI systems
  • Measurement of consciousness in AI systems
  • Physicalist models of consciousness
  • Philosophy of mind and machine consciousness
  • Conscious processes and time
  • Implementing neuroscience of consciousness in AI systems
  • Computational models of consciousness

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers (6 pages) or position and work-in-progress papers (2 pages) according to the Springer Lecture Notes style:
https://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Papers should be submitted via AAAI Spring Symposium Easychair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss19 (look for our symposium)

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. The symposium proceedings will be published online via CEUR-WS.org. Selected, high-quality papers will be considered for a book.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Paper submission: November 2, 2018
  • Acceptance/rejection: December 3, 2018
  • Final version of papers: December 17, 2018
  • Registration deadline for accepted papers: February 8, 2019
  • Symposium: March 25 27, 2019

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Antonio Chella (University of Palermo & ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy)
David Gamez (Middlesex University, London, UK)
Patrick Lincoln (SRI International)
Riccardo Manzotti (IULM University, Milan, Italy)
Jonathan Pfautz (DARPA)

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please visit the symposium website http://diid.unipa.it/roboticslab/consciousai/

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