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Researchers from the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies took part in the second annual conference of the International Center for Consciousness Studies (ICCS).
The conference was held on July 3–5, 2025, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It was devoted to the problem of artificial intelligence and sentience (AI and Sentience) and brought together leading researchers in philosophy, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence from different countries. Over the course of the three-day program, participants discussed the possibility and criteria of sentience in AI, the boundaries of artificial consciousness, the ethical consequences of the emergence of sentient machines, as well as new theoretical approaches and empirical research in this field. One of the organizers of the ICCS conference was Dmitry Volkov, co-founder of our center and a member of its Board of Trustees.
MCCS researchers presented poster papers at the conference:
Evgeny Loginov — The Dilemma for the Social Approach to AI Consciousness
Andrey Mertsalov — Sentient AGI and The Standard Psychological Continuity View
Anton Kuznetsov — Radical Epistemic Underdetermination: AI and Alien Sentience
Artem Besedin — Sentience Is Not a Matter of Definition!
Taras Tarasenko — Systematic Errors in AI: A Challenge for Sentience or Architectural Signature?
