The Winter Intelligence Conference, set in Oxford during Alan Turing’s centenary year, combines two subconferences:
AGI-12, the 5th conference on Artificial General Intelligence on the 8th and 9th of December 2012 (with workshops to follow on the 10th and 11th).
AGI Impacts conference which analyses the issues and risks surrounding the creation of such machines (run by the Future of Humanity Institute and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impact of Future Technology) on the 10th and 11th of December 2012.
A selection of papers from the AGI Impacts conference have been published in a special volume of the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence: Risks of General Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 26, Iss. 3, 2014, Vincent C. Müller (ed).
Attendees at both subconferences are eligible for the $1000 2012 Turing Prize for Best AGI Safety Paper, for any paper or contribution to ‘AGI-12’ and ‘AGI-Impacts 2012’ that presents exceptional research on the question of how to develop safe architectures or goals for artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Maps and directions to and around Oxford can be found here.
Venue: St. Anne’s College, Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
08:45-09:45 Keynote:
- Margaret Boden (University of Sussex) Creativity and AGI Video →
09:45-10:45 Keynote:
- David Hanson (Hanson Robotics) Open source genius machines who care: Growing Friendly AGI via GENI, Glue and Lovable Characters
10:45-11:15 Morning break
11:15-12:15 Keynote:
- Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth) From Sensorimotor Intelligence to Symbols: Developmental Robotics Experiments
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Keynote:
- Nick Bostrom (Future of Humanity Institute) The Superintelligence Control Problem
14:35-16:20 Session 1: Cognitive Architectures & Models A
16:20-16:45 Break
16:45-18:30 Session 2: Cognitive Architectures & Models B
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:40 Session 4: Conceptual and Contextual Issues
12:40-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 AGI Society / conference series business meeting
14:00-16:00 Session 5: Cognitive Architectures and Models C
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Session 6: Mathematical Formalisms and Tools
- Aaron Sloman: Meta-morphogenesis: How a planet can produce Minds, Mathematics and Music Video →
9:45-10:15 Break
10:00-12:00 Hands-on AGI-12 tutorial on the CHREST cognitive architecture
12:00-13:00 Lunch
- Bruce Schneier (BT) Enabling the Trust that Makes Society Function Video →
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-17:00 Talks:
- Roman Yampolskiy: Reward Function Integrity in Artificially Intelligent Systems
- Andras Kornai: Bounding the impact of AGI
- Ted Goertzel: Minimizing Risks in Developing Artificial General Intelligence
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-18:50 Talks:
- Ben Goertzel: GOLEM: Toward an AGI Meta-Architecture Enabling Both Goal Preservation and Radical Self-Improvement
- Alexey Potapov and Sergey Rodionov: Universal empathy and ethical bias for artificial general intelligence
19:00 Conference Dinner
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 AGI Roadmap discussion, led by Ben Goertzel and Joscha Bach
12:00-13:00 Lunch
- Miles Brundage: Limitations and Risks of Machine Ethics
- Stuart Armstrong: Predicting AI… or failing to
- Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski: Trends and Scenarios of Selected Key AI Technologies until 2025
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Talks:
- Robin Hanson: Envisioning The Economy, and Society, of Whole Brain Emulations
- Anders Sandberg: Ethics and Impact of Brain Emulations
- : Could we use untrustworthy human brain emulations to make trustworthy ones?
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00-19:15 Keynote:
19:15-20:00 Wine & Cheese Reception
[ For a list of extended abstracts for AGI Impacts please click here → ]