The conference will aim to shed light on philosophical, ethical, social, esthetical, medical and also technical issues that constitute current conceptions of AI. Transdisciplinary dialogue between experts from engineering, natural sciences and humanities is strongly encouraged. Contributions to the following topics are welcomed:

 

• AI Applications in Real Life 

scope and limits of applicability, harmonization of implementation, the pros and cons of practical usefulness, ambient intelligence, reality of second life

•  AI for Human Health 

patient´s experience with intelligent prosthetics, models for psychiatry, Eliza as a psychotherapeutist, biomedical ethics

•  AI and Art

creative facets of designing AI products, aesthetics of computer-human contacts, cyberpunk art, machines as artists, science fiction

•  AI and Mind 

artificial and natural thought, mind and consciousness, semiotic models, self-reference, emergence

•  AI versus IA

intelligence amplification, human cognitive enhancement, brain-computer interface, embodied cognitive science

• Man-Machine Coexistence

man-machine communication, individual and social coexistence of human and machine, transhumanism, issues of prospective cohabitation and/or fight

•  Fringe AI

singularitarianism, mind-uploading, simulation argument, cyborg theory