The paper „How Can GenAI Foster Well-being in Self-regulated Learning?“ by Stefanie Hauske and Oliver Bendel is now available as part of the „Proceedings of the AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium Series“. Oliver Bendel presented the paper at the symposium „Impact of GenAI on Social and Individual Well-being“ in March 2024. From the abstract: „This paper explores how generative AI (GenAI) can improve the well-being of learners within self-regulated learning (SRL) frameworks in the corporate context. In the ‚GenAI to Support SRL‘ section, it presents three custom versions of ChatGPT aimed at assisting learners. These so-called GPTs demonstrate the GenAI’s potential to actively support learners in SRL and positively influence their well-being. The ‚Discussion‘ and ‚Summary and Outlook‘ sections provide a balanced overview of the opportunities and risks associated with GenAI in the field of learning and highlight directions for future research. The results indicate that GenAI could improve the well-being of learners in SRL through providing personalized guidance, reducing feelings of stress, and increasing motivation and self-efficacy. At the same time, there are several challenges for companies and employees that need to be overcome.“ It was Oliver Bendel’s ninth consecutive appearance at the AAAI Spring Symposia, which this time consisted of eight symposia on artificial intelligence. The paper can be downloaded at ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI-SS/article/view/31234.
Fig.: GPTs in the form of VLCs can help students (Image: DALL-E 3)
On the second day of the AAAI Spring Symposia, one could already get the impression that the traditional conference has returned to its former greatness. The Covid pandemic had damaged it. In 2023, there were still too few participants for some symposia. Many stayed home and watched the sessions online. It was difficult for everyone involved. But the problems had already started in 2019. At that time, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence had decided not to publish the proceedings centrally any more, but to leave it to the individual organizers. Some of them were negligent or disinterested and left the scientists alone with their demands. In 2024, the association took over the publication process again, which led to very positive reactions in the community. Last but not least, of course, the boost from generative AI helped. In 2024, you can see many happy and exuberant AI experts at Stanford University, with mild temperatures and lots of sunshine.
The AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium Series will be held at Stanford University from March 25-27, 2024. There are a total of eight symposia. One of them is „Impact of GenAI on Social and Individual Well-being“. It will be hosted by Takashi Kido (Teikyo University, Japan) and Keiki Takadama (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan). The announcement text reads: „Generative AI (GenAI) presents significant opportunities and challenges in the areas of individual and societal well-being. While its benefits in areas such as healthcare, the arts, and education are enormous, it also requires careful consideration of ethics, privacy, fairness, and security.“ On March 25, 2024, Takashi Kido opened the symposium with an interesting talk, including how ChatGPT would decide on the trolley problem. More information about the symposium is available here.
The AAAI Spring Symposium Series will be held at Stanford University on March 25-27, 2024. The symposium co-chairs are Christopher Geib (SIFT, USA) and Ron Petrick (Heriot-Watt University, UK). Since 2019, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has not published the proceedings itself, but left this to the organizers of the individual symposia. This had unfortunate consequences. For example, some organizers did not publish the proceedings at all, and the scientists did not know this in advance. This, in turn, had consequences for the funding of travel and fees, since many universities will only pay for their members to attend conferences if they are linked to a publication. This major flaw, which damaged the prestigious conference, was fixed in 2024. As of this year, AAAI once again offers centralized publication, along with an excellent quality assurance process. Over the past ten years, the AAAI Spring Symposia have been relevant not only to classical AI, but also to roboethics and machine ethics. Groundbreaking symposia were, for example, „Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents“ in 2016, „AI for Social Good“ in 2017, or „AI and Society: Ethics, Safety and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Agents“ in 2018. In 2024, you can look forward to the „Impact of GenAI on Social and Individual Well-being“ symposium, which will focus on an app for the blind and GPTs as virtual learning companions (VLCs), among other things. More information is available at aaai.org/conference/spring-symposia/sss24/.
Fig.: Student at Stanford University with her VLC (Image: DALL-E 3)
The paper „How Can Generative AI Enhance the Well-being of the Blind?“ by Oliver Bendel is now available as a preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2402.07919. It was accepted at the AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium „Impact of GenAI on Social and Individual Well-being“. From the abstract: „This paper examines the question of how generative AI can improve the well-being of blind or visually impaired people. It refers to a current example, the Be My Eyes app, in which the Be My AI feature was integrated in 2023, which is based on GPT-4 from OpenAI. The author’s tests are described and evaluated. There is also an ethical and social discussion. The power of the tool, which can analyze still images in an amazing way, is demonstrated. Those affected gain a new independence and a new perception of their environment. At the same time, they are dependent on the world view and morality of the provider or developer, who prescribe or deny them certain descriptions. An outlook makes it clear that the analysis of moving images will mean a further leap forward. It is fair to say that generative AI can fundamentally improve the well-being of blind and visually impaired people and will change it in various ways.“ Oliver Bendel will present the paper at Stanford University on March 25-27. It is his ninth consecutive appearance at the AAAI Spring Symposia, which this time consists of eight symposia on artificial intelligence.
At the AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium „Impact of GenAI on Social and Individual Well-being“ the paper „How Can Generative AI Enhance the Well-being of the Blind?“ by Oliver Bendel was accepted. In his paper, the information systems specialist and technology philosopher from Zurich discusses the GPT-4-based Be My AI feature of the Be My Eyes app. He presents his own tests with the app and discusses it from an ethical perspective. The feature is one of the most important inventions in recent years for blind and visually impaired people. It allows them to describe and categorize their surroundings without outside help. However, it is troubling that the app refuses to show some objects, including famous works of art that depict nudity. This disenfranchises people because of the moral sensitivities and economic considerations of the developers. Oliver Bendel will present the paper at Stanford University on March 25-27. It is his ninth consecutive appearance at the AAAI Spring Symposia, which this time consists of eight symposia on artificial intelligence.
Fig.: The app answers the question of which tie goes with a gray suit
Carsten Schneider (SPD) hat laut mehreren Medien ein staatliches Startkapital von bis zu 20.000 Euro für alle Volljährigen in Deutschland gefordert. Der Deutschlandfunk titelte bereits Anfang Oktober 2023 mit „Ostbeauftragter Schneider fordert Grunderbe“. Damit folgt der Politiker einer Idee, die u.a. von Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel unter dem Begriff des bedingungslosen Grundeigentums untersucht und weiterentwickelt wurde. Die Automatisierung – so schreibt er in einem Paper, das er 2019 bei den AAAI Spring Symposia an der Stanford University vorgestellt hat – schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Ihr Partner ist bereits vor Jahrzehnten die Digitalisierung geworden. In der Industrie werden neuartige Roboter eingesetzt, beispielsweise Cobots. Serviceroboter verbreiten sich in unterschiedlichen Bereichen. Systeme der Künstlichen Intelligenz übernehmen Arbeiten aller Art, sogar kreative Tätigkeiten. Die Studien zur Arbeitsmarktentwicklung gelangen zu unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Man kann aber auf jeden Fall sagen – so der Wirtschaftsinformatiker und Informationsethiker in seinem Paper -, dass bestimmte Arbeitsplätze wegfallen und viele Menschen ohne ihre vertraute Arbeit sein werden. Es ist auch anzunehmen, dass insgesamt weniger menschliche Arbeit im Auftrag (etwa für Arbeitgeber) verrichtet werden muss. Als Lösungen der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Probleme werden oft bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Robotersteuer genannt. Das Paper präsentiert, diskutiert und kritisiert diese Ansätze im Kontext der Automatisierung und Digitalisierung. Zudem entwickelt er einen weitgehend unbekannten Vorschlag, das bedingungslose Grundeigentum, weiter und stellt seine Potenziale ebenso dar wie seine Risiken. Das Paper kann über den Proceedingsband oder direkt hier abgerufen werden.
Abb.: Oliver Bendel im Jahre 2019 an der Stanford University
In late August 2023, AAAI announced the continuation of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, to be held at Stanford University from 25-27 March 2024. Due to staff shortages, the prestigious conference had to be held at the Hyatt Regency SFO Airport in San Francisco in March 2023 – and will now return to its traditional venue. The call for proposals is available on the AAAI Spring Symposium Series page. Proposals are due by 6 October 2023. They should be submitted to the symposium co-chairs, Christopher Geib (SIFT, USA) and Ron Petrick (Heriot-Watt University, UK), via the online submission page. Over the past ten years, the AAAI Spring Symposia have been relevant not only to classical AI, but also to roboethics and machine ethics. Groundbreaking symposia were, for example, „Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents“ in 2016, „AI for Social Good“ in 2017, or „AI and Society: Ethics, Safety and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Agents“ in 2018. More information is available at aaai.org/conference/spring-symposia/sss24/.
Fig.: Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus
The AAAI Spring Symposia is a legendary conference that has been held since 1992. It usually takes place at Stanford University. Until 2018, the leading US artificial intelligence organization itself published the proceedings. Since 2019, each symposium is responsible for its own. Following a restructuring of the AAAI website, the proceedings can be found in a section of the new „AAAI Conference and Symposium Proceedings“ page. In 2016, Stanford University hosted one of the most important gatherings on machine ethics and robot ethics ever, the symposium „Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents“ … Contributors included Peter M. Asaro, Oliver Bendel, Joanna J. Bryson, Lily Frank, The Anh Han, and Luis Moniz Pereira. Also present was Ronald C. Arkin, one of the most important and – because of his military research – controversial machine ethicists. The 2017 and 2018 symposia were also groundbreaking for machine ethics and attracted experts from around the world. The papers can be accessed at aaai.org/aaai-publications/aaai-conference-proceedings.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is pleased to present the AAAI 2023 Spring Symposia, to be held at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport, California, March 27-29. According to the organizers, Stanford University cannot act as host this time because of insufficient staff. Symposia of particular interest from a philosophical point of view are „AI Climate Tipping-Point Discovery“, „AI Trustworthiness Assessment“, „Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery“, „Evaluation and Design of Generalist Systems (EDGeS): Challenges and methods for assessing the new generation of AI“, and „Socially Responsible AI for Well-being“. According to AAAI, symposia generally range from 40–75 participants each. „Participation will be open to active participants as well as other interested individuals on a first-come, first-served basis.“ (Website AAAI) Over the past decade, the conference has become one of the most important venues in the world for discussions on robot ethics, machine ethics, and AI ethics. It will be held again at History Corner from 2024. Further information via www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss23.php.
„Der Begriff der Überbevölkerung (engl. ‚overpopulation‘) wird vorwiegend von Ökologie und Soziologie geprägt. Er verweist darauf, dass Lebewesen – sowohl Menschen als auch Tiere – ihren Lebensraum und den Lebensraum anderer durch ihre Anwesenheit und ihre Lebensweise überbeanspruchen. Sie bzw. ihre Mitgeschöpfe haben keinen ausreichenden Platz mehr, um sich zu entfalten, und sie können keine Nachhaltigkeit mehr gewährleisten oder zerstören sogar das Ökosystem.“ Der Beitrag von Oliver Bendel zur Überbevölkerung ist im März 2022 im Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon erschienen. Der Informations- und Maschinenethiker hatte bereits in „Are Robot Tax, Basic Income or Basic Property Solutions to the Social Problems of Automation?“ im Rahmen der AAAI Spring Symposia erste Überlegungen zu diesem Thema angestellt. Der Lexikonbeitrag nimmt am Schluss auch die Perspektive der Technik und der Ethik ein: „Technische Innovation kann eine bessere Nutzung ermöglichen und vorhandene Effekte abmildern. Umweltethik und Wirtschaftsethik widmen sich den Implikationen der Überbevölkerung in moralischer Hinsicht.“ Er kann über wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/ueberbevoelkerung-123165 abgerufen werden.
Semi-autonomous machines, autonomous machines and robots inhabit closed, semi-closed and open environments, more structured environments like the household or more unstructured environments like cultural landscapes or the wilderness. There they encounter domestic animals, farm animals, working animals, and wild animals. These creatures could be disturbed, displaced, injured, or killed by the machines. Within the context of machine ethics and social robotics, the School of Business FHNW developed several design studies and prototypes for animal-friendly machines, which can be understood as moral and social machines in the spirit of these disciplines. In 2019-20, a team led by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel developed a prototype robot lawnmower that can recognize hedgehogs, interrupt its work for them and thus protect them. Every year many of these animals die worldwide because of traditional service robots. HAPPY HEDGEHOG (HHH), as the invention is called, could be a solution to this problem. This article begins by providing an introduction to the background. Then it focuses on navigation (where the machine comes across certain objects that need to be recognized) and thermal and image recognition (with the help of machine learning) of the machine. It also presents obvious weaknesses and possible improvements. The results could be relevant for an industry that wants to market their products as animal-friendly machines. The paper „The HAPPY HEDGEHOG Project“ is available here.
The symposium „Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment“ will be held within the AAAI Spring Symposia on March 22-23, 2021. One of the presentations is titled „Care Robots with Sexual Assistance Functions“. Author of the paper is Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel. From the abstract: „Residents in retirement and nursing homes have sexual needs just like other people. However, the semi-public situation makes it difficult for them to satisfy these existential concerns. In addition, they may not be able to meet a suitable partner or find it difficult to have a relationship for mental or physical reasons. People who live or are cared for at home can also be affected by this problem. Perhaps they can host someone more easily and discreetly than the residents of a health facility, but some elderly and disabled people may be restricted in some ways. This article examines the opportunities and risks that arise with regard to care robots with sexual assistance functions. First of all, it deals with sexual well-being. Then it presents robotic systems ranging from sex robots to care robots. Finally, the focus is on care robots, with the author exploring technical and design issues. A brief ethical discussion completes the article. The result is that care robots with sexual assistance functions could be an enrichment of the everyday life of people in need of care, but that we also have to consider some technical, design and moral aspects.“ More information about the AAAI Spring Symposia is available at aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss21.php.
After several postponements, the symposium „Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment“ will be held within the AAAI Spring Symposia on March 22-23, 2021. One of the presentations is titled „Co-Robots as Care Robots“ (co-robots are also called cobots). The authors of the paper are Oliver Bendel, Alina Gasser, and Joel Siebenmann. From the abstract: „Cooperation and collaboration robots, co-robots or cobots for short, are an integral part of factories. For example, they work closely with the fitters in the automotive sector, and everyone does what they do best. However, the novel robots are not only relevant in production and logistics, but also in the service sector, especially where proximity between them and the users is desired or unavoidable. For decades, individual solutions of a very different kind have been developed in care. Now experts are increasingly relying on co-robots and teaching them the special tasks that are involved in care or therapy. This article presents the advantages, but also the disadvantages of co-robots in care and support, and provides information with regard to human-robot interaction and communication. The article is based on a model that has already been tested in various nursing and retirement homes, namely Lio from F&P Robotics, and uses results from accompanying studies. The authors can show that co-robots are ideal for care and support in many ways. Of course, it is also important to consider a few points in order to guarantee functionality and acceptance.“ More information about the AAAI Spring Symposia is available at aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss21.php.
The paper „The HAPPY HEDGEHOG Project“ by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel, Emanuel Graf and Kevin Bollier was accepted at the AAAI Spring Symposia 2021. The researchers will present it at the sub-conference „Machine Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in the Wild“ at the end of March. The project was conducted at the School of Business FHNW between June 2019 and January 2020. Emanuel Graf, Kevin Bollier, Michel Beugger and Vay Lien Chang developed a prototype of a mowing robot in the context of machine ethics and social robotics, which stops its work as soon as it detects a hedgehog. HHH has a thermal imaging camera. When it encounters a warm object, it uses image recognition to investigate it further. At night, a lamp mounted on top helps. After training with hundreds of photos, HHH can quite accurately identify a hedgehog. With this artifact, the team provides a solution to a problem that frequently occurs in practice. Commercial robotic mowers repeatedly kill young hedgehogs in the dark. HAPPY HEDGEHOG could help to save them. The video on in the corresponding section of this website shows it without disguise. The robot is in the tradition of LADYBIRD.
The paper „Care Robots with Sexual Assistance Functions“ by Oliver Bendel, accepted at the AAAI 2020 Spring Symposium „Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment“, can be accessed via arxiv.org/abs/2004.04428. From the abstract: „Residents in retirement and nursing homes have sexual needs just like other people. However, the semi-public situation makes it difficult for them to satisfy these existential concerns. In addition, they may not be able to meet a suitable partner or find it difficult to have a relationship for mental or physical reasons. People who live or are cared for at home can also be affected by this problem. Perhaps they can host someone more easily and discreetly than the residents of a health facility, but some elderly and disabled people may be restricted in some ways. This article examines the opportunities and risks that arise with regard to care robots with sexual assistance functions. First of all, it deals with sexual well-being. Then it presents robotic systems ranging from sex robots to care robots. Finally, the focus is on care robots, with the author exploring technical and design issues. A brief ethical discussion completes the article. The result is that care robots with sexual assistance functions could be an enrichment of the everyday life of people in need of care, but that we also have to consider some technical, design and moral aspects.“ Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the physical meeting to be held at Stanford University was postponed. It will take place in November 2020 in Washington (AAAI 2020 Fall Symposium Series).
Fig.: Not all people have the joy of a real relationship
The paper „Co-Robots as Care Robots“ by Oliver Bendel, Alina Gasser and Joel Siebenmann, accepted at the AAAI 2020 Spring Symposium „Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment“, can be accessed via arxiv.org/abs/2004.04374. From the abstract: „Cooperation and collaboration robots, co-robots or cobots for short, are an integral part of factories. For example, they work closely with the fitters in the automotive sector, and everyone does what they do best. However, the novel robots are not only relevant in production and logistics, but also in the service sector, especially where proximity between them and the users is desired or unavoidable. For decades, individual solutions of a very different kind have been developed in care. Now experts are increasingly relying on co-robots and teaching them the special tasks that are involved in care or therapy. This article presents the advantages, but also the disadvantages of co-robots in care and support, and provides information with regard to human-robot interaction and communication. The article is based on a model that has already been tested in various nursing and retirement homes, namely Lio from F&P Robotics, and uses results from accompanying studies. The authors can show that co-robots are ideal for care and support in many ways. Of course, it is also important to consider a few points in order to guarantee functionality and acceptance.“ Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the physical meeting to be held at Stanford University was postponed. It will take place in November 2020 in Washington (AAAI 2020 Fall Symposium Series).
Fig.: Lio at Rehaklinik Zihlschlacht (photo: Urs Jaudas/F&P Robotics)
Stanford University announced that it would cancel in-person classes for the final two weeks of the winter quarter in response to the expanding outbreak of COVID-19. Even before that, the school had set its sights on larger events. These included the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, a legendary conference on artificial intelligence, which in recent years has also had a major impact on machine ethics and robot ethics or roboethics. The AAAI organization announced by email: „It is with regret that we must notify you of the cancellation of the physical meeting of the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford, March 23-25, due to the current situation surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak. Stanford has issued the following letter at news.stanford.edu/2020/03/03/message-campus-community-covid-19/, which strongly discourages and likely results in cancellation of any meeting with more than 150 participants.“ What happens with the papers and talks is still unclear. Possibly they will be part of the AAAI Fall Symposium in Washington. The symposium „Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment“, one of eight events, had to be cancelled as well – among other things, innovative approaches and technologies that are also relevant for crises and disasters such as COVID-19 would have been discussed there.
Fig.: The conference would have been part of the AAAI 2020 Spring Symposium
The paper „Care Robots with Sexual Assistance Functions“ by Oliver Bendel was accepted at the AAAI 2020 Spring Symposia. From the abstract: „Residents in retirement and nursing homes have sexual needs just like other people. However, the semi-public situation makes it difficult for them to satisfy these existential concerns. In addition, they may not be able to meet a suitable partner or find it difficult to have a relationship for mental or physical reasons. People who live or are cared for at home can also be affected by this problem. Perhaps they can host someone more easily and discreetly than the residents of a health facility, but some elderly and disabled people may be restricted in some ways. This article examines the opportunities and risks that arise with regard to care robots with sexual assistance functions. First of all, it deals with sexual well-being. Then it presents robotic systems ranging from sex robots to care robots. Finally, the focus is on care robots, with the author exploring technical and design issues. A brief ethical discussion completes the article. The result is that care robots with sexual assistance functions could be an enrichment of the everyday life of people in need of care, but that we also have to consider some technical, design and moral aspects.“ The paper had been submitted to the symposium „Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment“. Oliver Bendel will present the paper at Stanford University between 23 and 25 March 2020.
The paper „Co-Robots as Care Robots“ by Oliver Bendel, Alina Gasser and Joel Siebenmann was accepted at the AAAI 2020 Spring Symposia. From the abstract: „Cooperation and collaboration robots, co-robots or cobots for short, are an integral part of factories. For example, they work closely with the fitters in the automotive sector, and everyone does what they do best. However, the novel robots are not only relevant in production and logistics, but also in the service sector, especially where proximity between them and the users is desired or unavoidable. For decades, individual solutions of a very different kind have been developed in care. Now experts are increasingly relying on co-robots and teaching them the special tasks that are involved in care or therapy. This article presents the advantages, but also the disadvantages of co-robots in care and support, and provides information with regard to human-robot interaction and communication. The article is based on a model that has already been tested in various nursing and retirement homes, namely Lio from F&P Robotics, and uses results from accompanying studies. The authors can show that co-robots are ideal for care and support in many ways. Of course, it is also important to consider a few points in order to guarantee functionality and acceptance.“ The paper had been submitted to the symposium „Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment“. Oliver Bendel will present the results at Stanford University between 23 and 25 March 2020.
The papers of the AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium „Interpretable AI for Well-Being: Understanding Cognitive Bias and Social Embeddedness symposium“ were published in October 2019. The participants had met at Stanford University at the end of March 2019 to present and discuss their findings. Session 5 („Social Embeddedness“) includes the following publications: „Are Robot Tax, Basic Income or Basic Property Solutions to the Social Problems of Automation?“ (Oliver Bendel), „Context-based Network Analysis of Structured Knowledge for Data Utilization“ (Teruaki Hayashi, Yukio Ohsawa), „Extended Mind, Embedded AI, and ‚the Barrier of Meaning'“ (Sadeq Rahimi), „Concept of Future Prototyping Methodology to Enhance Value Creation within Future Contexts“ (Miwa Nishinaka, Yusuke Kishita, Hisashi Masuda, Kunio Shirahada), and „Maintaining Knowledge Distribution System’s Sustainability Using Common Value Auctions“ (Anas Al-Tirawi, Robert G. Reynolds). The papers can be downloaded via ceur-ws.org/Vol-2448/.
Emotional and fascinating lectures and discussions were held at the AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium „Towards Conscious AI Systems“ at Stanford University. Machine consciousness is a research area located between artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics. The aim is the creation of a synthetic consciousness or self-consciousness. This simulates human consciousness or self-consciousness, approaches it a little or reproduces it in parts. Or it reaches the original, is identical with it in essential parts, which until further notice is far away from reality. Some of the topics that the symposium covered include the following: recent work on conscious AI systems, embodied conscious AI systems, self-reflective higher-order AI systems, ethical issues involving conscious AI systems and trust in conscious AI systems. Further interesting symposia were „Interpretable AI for Well-Being: Understanding Cognitive Bias and Social Embeddedness“ and „Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies“. More information via aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss19.php.
Fig.: One of the machine consciousness talks at Stanford University