Autonomous robots are seen by engineers as mere human avatars deployed for the benefit of some absent principal. Other times, when bound to research in cognitive science, they are seen as mere plastic and metal incarnations of some fundamental, effortfully distilled essence of human beings.

They are not.

Un Seminario UPM celebrado el 24 de Mayo de 2022 organizado por AIR4S, el Digital Innovation Hub en Inteligencia Artificial para los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, coordinado por la UPM y reconocido como uno de los 30 DIH más relevantes en Europa en el ámbito de la Inteligencia Artificial.

The Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness (JAIC) will offer a multidisciplinary platform to discuss AI and consciousness in the light of robotics and artificial systems, computational science, psychology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and neuroscience.

The aims and scope of the journal are:

• articles that take inspiration from biological consciousness and/or that explore theoretical issues of consciousness to build robots and AI systems that show forms of functional consciousness;
• articles that employ robots and AI systems as tools to model and better understand biological mechanisms of consciousness;
• articles that discuss ethical problems emerging or uncovered through the overlap of AI and consciousness, and that investigate the ethical and societal impact of consciousness and the limits of it, and
• to pursue the hybridization between the field of AI and the field of consciousness studies.

Go to JAIC journal website.