7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Kiva Ballroom “Varieties of Non-Human Consciousness” Susan Schneider, Co-Chair; Stuart Hameroff, Co-Chair, Garry Nolan, Ben Goertzel, Hartmut Neven, Rajnish Khanna others TBA
Susan Lynn Schneider is an American philosopher and artificial intelligence expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. Co-director, MPCR Lab (Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Lab). Schneider writes about the nature of the self and mind, especially from the vantage point of issues in philosophy, AI, cognitive science and astrobiology. Before opening the Center for the Future Mind, she held the NASA Chair with NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
In her recent book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of the Mind, she discusses the philosophical implications of AI, and, in particular, the enterprise of "mind design." Schneider recently completed a three-year project with NASA on the future of intelligence. She now works with Congress on AI policy. She also appears frequently on television shows on stations such as PBS and The History Channel. She writes opinion pieces for the New York Times, Scientific American and The Financial Times. Her work has been widely discussed in the media (see "media" above). She is currently working on a book on the shape of intelligent systems (for W.W. Norton).
