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General Information

PT-AI 2021

 

4th Conference on “Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence”

Gothenburg

27-28 September, 2021

(Previous conferences: Thessaloniki 2011, Oxford 2013, Leeds 2017)

Organisation

Vincent C. Müller, Technical University of Eindhoven (& University of Leeds & Alan Turing Institute)

Ivica Crnkovic & Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg

Location

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Lindholmen Conference Centre, see video also) & ONLINE

  • The conference is a hybrid event, i.e. on-site and on-line. Participation fully online is possible. Papers & discussions are streamed live, but not recorded.
  • There is no conference fee.

Programme: https://www.pt-ai.org/programme

Invited Speakers

– Virginia Dignum (Umeå, S) “Responsible AI: from principles to action” 

– Michael Levin (Tufts, USA) “Intelligence beyond the brain: basal cognition of life in diverse problem spaces inspiration for AI” 

– David Papineau (KCL, UK) “A Philosopher’s Reactions to GPT-3” 

– Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh, UK) “The Digital Basanos: AI and the Virtue and Violence of Truth-Telling”

Proceedings

Accepted papers and posters will be published in a volume of proceedings (likely in Springer’s SAPERE series or the Synthese series). Upload to a freely accessible place is encouraged (e.g. PhilPapers).

For details, see the Call for Papers page.

Papers from previous conferences have been downloaded over 350,000 times from the publishers alone:

2011: ‘Minds and Machines‘ & SAPERE series

2013: Synthese series

2017: SAPERE series

Themes

Artificial intelligence is set to change the world – as well as the way we see ourselves and the world. The conference will deal with fundamental issues of present and future artificial intelligence, such as:

Basic Concepts of AI: Complexity, Computation, Consciousness, Creativity, Free will, Information, Intelligence, Intentionality & meaning & representation, Life, Superintelligence & singularity

Ethics of AI: Human dignity and AI, Impact on society, Machine ethics, Bias & fairness, Responsibility & rights for machines, Risk to humanity & AI safety, Privacy, manipulation

Approaches & Methods of AI: Big data analytics, Cognitive architecture, Cooperation & interaction, Cybernetics, Dynamical systems, Embodiment, Enactive cognition, Embedded & extended mind, Expert systems, Machine learning & neural networks, Neuroscience & AI, Non-symbolic AI, Robotics

Challenges of AI: Action selection & rational choice, Brain emulation and uploading, Symbol grounding, Common sense, Frame problem, Gödelian arguments, Turing test, …

Programme Committee

Abramson, Darren

Arriagada-Bruneau, Gabriela

Beavers, Anthony

Berkeley, Istvan

Cannon, Michael

Copeland, Jack

Dietrich, Eric

Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana

Firt, Erez

Gomila, Antoni

Gudmunsen, Zach Seyed

Loehr, Guido

Magnani, Lorenzo

Miłkowski, Marcin

Morales, Diego

Müller, Vincent C.

Piccinini, Gualtiero

Schiaffonati, Viola

Shagrir, Oron

Vallverdú, Jordi

Wheeler, Michael

Wiedermann, Jiri

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