Tuesday, November 12th
08:00–09:45 arrival and registration
09:45–10:00 official opening
Morning Session 1
chair: Jan Romportl
commentator: Joanna Zylinska
10:00–11:20
Kevin Warwick (University of Reading) – Sex, Lies and Games: Turing Style
+ commentary & discussion
11:20–11:40 coffee break
11:40–13:00
Hamid Ekbia (Indiana University) – AI, Its Metaphors, and Their Mutations
+ commentary & discussion
13:00–14:30 lunch break
Afternoon Session 1
chair: Radek Schuster
commentator: Kevin Warwick
14:30–15:50
Ron Chrisley (University of Sussex) – The Construction of Light
+ commentary & discussion
15:50–16:20
Alžběta Krausová – Creating Free Will in Artificial Intelligence
+ commentary & discussion
16:20–16:40 coffee break
16:40–18:00
Jaime del Val (Reverso, Madrid) – METAMERGENCE: Kinetic Intelligence and Physical Thinking Beyond the Artificial-Natural Binary
+ introduction of the project “METABODY – Media Embodiment Tékhne and Bridges of Diversity”, followed by panel discussion
19:30–23:00 conference dinner in Hotel Marriott Plzeň
Wednesday, November 13th
Morning Session 2
chair: Jan Romportl
commentator: John Storrs Hall
10:00–11:20
Ben Goertzel (AGI Society) – Beyond Artificiality, Generality and Intelligence (video-chat talk)
+ commentary & discussion
11:20–11:40 coffee break
11:40–13:10
Vladimír Havlík – Artificial or Natural Intelligence?
Tzu-Wei Hung – Syntactic Processing in the Behavior-Based Architecture of the Mind
Ivana Uspenski – Shared in Confidence: a Machine to a Machine
+ commentary & discussion
13:10–15:00 lunch break
Afternoon Session 2
chair: Michal Polák
commentator: Hamid Ekbia
15:00–16:20
Jana Horáková (Masaryk University, Brno) – The Robot: Golem of the Modern Age
+ commentary & discussion
16:20–16:40 coffee break
16:40–18:00
Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London) – What Can We Do with Crude Matter? The Golem Issue in AI, Art and Ethics
+ commentary & discussion
18:00–18:30
Jelena Guga – In the Machine We Trust: Cyborg Body of Philosophy, Religion and Fiction
+ commentary & discussion
Thursday, November 14th
Morning Session 3
chair: Pavel Ircing
commentator: Anders Sandberg
09:00–10:20
John Storrs Hall (Independent scientist and author) – Artificial Responsibility
+ commentary & discussion
10:20–10:40 coffee break
10:40–12:00
Rachel Armstrong (University of Greenwich) – The Embodied Mind
+ commentary & discussion
12:00–13:00 lunch break
Afternoon Session 3
chair: Radek Schuster
commentator: Rachel Armstrong
13:00–14:20
Anders Sandberg (University of Oxford) – What Do Cars Think of Trolley Problems: Ethics for Autonomous Cars
+ commentary & discussion
14:20–14:40 coffee break
14:40–16:40
Grace Halden – The Pursuit of Legal Rights for AGI in the Speculative Future
Abir Smiti – Soft Competence Model for Case Based Reasoning
Ondřej Beran – In Search for Memory: Remembering from the Viewpoints of Philosophy and of Multi-agent Systems Research
+ commentary & discussion
16:40–17:00 final remarks and closing ceremony
19:00< informal after-party in Pilsner pubs