10-11 Jun 2025 Bochum (Germany)

Evaluating Artificial Consciousness, 10-11 June 2025, Ruhr University Bochum

Registration for in-person attendance is closed. Remote attendance is possible without registration:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84586806836?pwd=1n9PyQWLBEFLmiDt8q7EmRwXKjsrqE.1

Meeting-ID: 845 8680 6836

Code: C3VsS3

Speakers include: Patrick Butlin, Joanna Bryson, Leonard Dung, Michele Farisco, François Kammerer, Johannes Kleiner, Lucia Melloni, Winnie Street.

Among others, talks at this workshop will discuss the following questions:

  • How can the science of consciousness contribute to evaluating the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems?
  • How can we evaluate the strength of evidence for consciousness in artificial systems?
  • How can we evaluate to what extent artificial systems have agency?
  • How are consciousness and agency related to moral status?
  • Specifically: what moral significance (if any) does phenomenal consciousness have?
  • To what extent, and how, should considerations about AI welfare inform policy decisions?
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