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How Deep is Your Bot? Two Visions of Machine Consciousness

Abstract: With rapid advances in the social and cognitive capabilities of AI, questions concerning their consciousness and moral status are becoming increasingly pressing. In this talk, I contrast two radically different approaches—Deep and Shallow—to addressing these issues. Deep approaches dominate mainstream philosophy of mind and consciousness science, viewing consciousness as an empirically discoverable natural kind …

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It probably doesn’t matter whether software can be made sentient

Abstract: Around 40% of philosophers believe that future AI systems will be conscious (Bourget and Chalmers 2023). Others have argued that the realization of phenomenal consciousness in conventional computer hardware is infeasible, nomologically impossible, or even metaphysically impossible (Block 2009; Godfrey-Smith 2016; Searle 1992; Shiller 2024; Tononi and Koch 2015). Whether or not the AI systems …

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Desire homuncularism – Agency, ethical standing, and skin in the game

Abstract: Late in his career, Daniel Dennett changed his mind about minds. If his new view is correct, it has deep implications for both the moral standing of nascent AIs and for the existential danger they may pose. He suggests in his (2017) that genuine minds require a different kind of architecture than he previously …

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Conscious as a solution to a biological problem

Abstract: Much of the recent discourse on AI consciousness has centered around two questions: is artificial consciousness possible in principle and do current systems meet the requirements laid out by prominent theories. For many practical purposes, it matters more whether we are likely to see nontrivial numbers of conscious artificial minds as the technology matures. …

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AI Zombies: Global Workspace Theory and Resource-Rational Analysis

Abstract: One of the more promising empirical theories of phenomenal consciousness is the Global Workspace Theory (GWT), which says that a mental representation becomes conscious when it enters a global workspace from which it can be broadcast to various specialized psychological modules [1-3]. There has been some discussion of GWT in connection with recent advancements …

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The Fair Treatment of Unequal Claims: The Moral Importance of Injecting Randomness into Algorithmic Decision Systems

Abstract: One compelling approach to value alignment treats value alignment as fundamentally a question of the fairness of the procedure for determining the principles that AI systems should align with (Gabriel 2020). This talk examines the question of how a procedure should treat different stakeholders’ claims fairly, especially in multi-stakeholder cases where people have both …

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AI Consciousness and Well-Being

Date: March 5-6, 2025 (Wednesday, Thursday) Organizer: AIH Lab   Desire homuncularism – Agency, ethical standing, and skin in the game Prof Steve Petersen,  Niagara University AI Zombies: Global Workspace Theory and Resource-Rational Analysis Prof Justin Tiehen,  University of Puget Sound It probably doesn’t matter whether software can be made sentient Dr Andreas Mogensen, University of Oxford …

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