The Second ICCS Conference
"AI and Sentience"
Heraklion, Crete, Megaron Hotel, 3–5 July 2025
9:00–9:30 — Welcome speeches
09:30–11:30 — General approaches to AI sentience I
Keith Frankish. How to think about artificial consciousness
Nicholas Humphrey. The mirage of sentient AI
Michael Pauen. Ascribing Higher Cognitive Abilities to AI
11:30–13:00 — Brunch
13:00–15:00 — Sentient AI in the social context
Pietro Perconti. Sentient machines already exist (and it has nothing to do with Deep Learning)
Clara Colobatto. Public Perceptions of AI Consciousness: Predictors and Consequences
Antonio Chella. AI Consciousness and Robot Inner Speech
15:00–16:00 — Catering and poster session
16:00–18:00 — The psychology of AI
Katarina Marcincinova. Positive aspect of illusionism and its implications for AI sentience
Susan Blackmore. What is it like to be artificially intelligent?
Michael Levin. TBC
9:00–11:00 — General approaches to AI sentience II
Susan Schneider. Addressing questions of LLM sentience
David Chalmers. On the computational correlates of consciousness
Robert Clowes. Confabulating Centres of Narrative Gravity with Large Language Models and its Implications for Understanding Consciousness
11:00–12:30 — Brunch
12:30–15:00 — Practical approaches to sentient AI
Dmitry Volkov. TBC
Daniel Hulme. Intelligence and Consciousness: in practice
Roman Yampolski. Limits of explainability, predictability and control for advanced AIs/Superintelligence Speech
15:00–16:00 — Catering and poster session
16:00–18:00 — The psychology of AI
Alessandro Acciai, Alessio Plebe. From Simulation to Dissimulation: Tracing Self-Consciousness in AI
Maria Raffa. Active Inference and AI Sentience: A Framework for Exploring Artificial Consciousness
Riccardo Manzotti. AI and Value: from cost function optimization to artificial freedom
9:30–10:00 — Introduction of the Dennett Prize winner
10:00–11:00 — Andy Clark. Dennett Lecture
