Models of experience and implications for AI

Hype looms around large language models and wider artificial intelligence (AI). Conscious AI, for example, is discussed as years away or just around the corner. Yet, there has been little cross-disciplinary work integrating and discussing diverse approaches to the hypothetical structural similarities between such systems and human subjective experience. This workshop will explore this diversity to gain new insight into such relationships. Attendees will integrate phenomenological, neuroscientific, mathematical, relational and artistic models to explore the science of subjective experience beyond traditional neuroscience, and its implications for the development of future AI, human-computer interactions, and the humanities.

Foundational questions include: How does our experience shape our worlds? How does the world and its technologies shape us in return? Can we mathematically structure our experience? What may be the relationship between such a structure, the brain and the body? How can we investigate such a structure scientifically? Artistically? And, what are the implications of doing so for technology and society? We aim to foster respectful exchange in a diverse and inclusive environment to approach these open questions, generate a cross-disciplinary dialogue and motivate collaborations among the attendees. 

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