The 18th Annual AGI Conference
Schedule
The AGI-25 Conference features workshops, keynote talks, AGI research technical paper presentations, focused on consideration for creating machines that think.
*Schedule subject to change, all times in GMT
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Doors Open
8.15am to 8.50am, Reception Area
Opening Remarks
9am to 9.15am, University Lobby
Workshop Schedule:
Morning Session: 9am to 1pm (incl. Coffee Break)
Afternoon Session: 2pm to 6pm (incl. Coffee Break)
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Workshop 1
Location:
Rm M104
All Day
Machine Consciousness: Philosophy and Implementation
This will be an all day workshop, with coffee and lunch breaks.
Chairs: Joscha Bach, Michael Timothy Bennett, Robert Prentner, Hikari Sorensen, Johannes Kleiner
This will be a one day workshop, co-organized by the Association of Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS) and the California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC).
The workshop will explore machine consciousness, bridging the gap between theories of consciousness and AGI development, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophers, AI researchers, and cognitive scientists.
Workshop 2
Location:
Rm M116,
All Day
Hyperon – an Architecture for Near-Term Neural-Symbolic-Evolutionary AGI
This will be an all day workshop, with coffee and lunch breaks.
Hosted by: Ben Goertzel, Alexey Potapov, Matt Iklé
Morning Session Theme: Hyperon, Current Technology & Near-Future Roadmap
1. Current state of databases, interpreters and compilers for Hyperon’s MeTTA AGI programming language
2. Hyperon AI algorithms and applications
Afternoon Session Theme: Predictive Coding, A Framework for Neural & Symbolic Learning and Inference for AGI
1. Predictive coding theory and concepts
2. State of current predictive coding efforts
3. Potential extensions of the paradigm
Workshop 3
Location:
Rm M115
All Day
Visualizing the Intelligence Singularity – A Live Experiment in Intelligence Structuring for AGI Safety
Chair: Andy Williams
Morning Session: Most debates about AGI still rest on axiomatic accounts—elegant in closed, well-characterised problem domains but brittle the moment genuinely novel phenomena appear.
This workshop asks a sharper question:
Must every valid theory of intelligence—and the field that studies it—incorporate a
formal functional model of intelligence to remain globally coherent in an open world?
Afternoon Session: The functional model of intelligence discussed in the morning can be generalized into a functional model for adaptation in any domain of functionality. The concept of a functional model of intelligence being required in order to have the capacity to solve the problem of AGI in an aligned way is then part of a far larger and more general problem. That problem is the lack of a
functional model for adaptation in any dynamically stable system in general, including a functional model for consciousness as an adaptive system.
Workshop 4
Location:
Rm M114,
Morning Session, 9am to 1pm
5th Workshop on Interpretable Natural Language Processing – Fundamentals and Applications
Chair: Anton Kolonin
While general conversational intelligence (GCI) can be considered one of the core aspects of AGI, the fields of AGI and NLP currently have little overlap, with few existing AGI architectures capable of comprehending natural language and nearly all NLP systems founded upon specialized, hardcoded rules and language-specific frameworks. This workshop is centered around the idea of INLP, an extension of the interpretable AI (IAI) concept to NLP; INLP allows for acquisition of natural language, comprehension of textual communications, and production of textual messages in a reasonable and transparent way. The proposed presentations regarding Link Grammar (LG), unsupervised LG learning, interpretable NLG/NLS, and sentiment mining/topic matching cover various INLP methods that may bring a greater degree of GCI to proto-AGI pipelines. A continuation of the INLP workshops at the AGI Conference Series.
Presenters: Abhishek Saxena, Alexey Glushchenko, Alexander Boldachev, Pavel Salowski, Anna Arinicheva, Samson Bobo, Usman Gidado
Workshop 5
Location:
Rm M118,
Afternoon Session, 2pm to 6pm
NARS Workshop
Workshop Organizer: Pei Wang
Workshop Leader: Bowen Xu
Website: Christian Hahm
Being one of the most sophisticated models of AGI, NARS (Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System) has attracted much interest from researchers, AI professionals, and students worldwide. The goal of the NARS project is to build thinking machines. Endeavors are made to uniformly explain and reproduce many cognitive facilities, including reasoning, learning, planning, etc., to provide a unified theory, model, and system for AI.
Built on top of its open-source implementation (OpenNARS), several NARS-based and NARS-related projects have been undertaken and are currently under development. To encourage communication and collaboration among the researchers and introduce these projects to the AGI community, a workshop will be held during AGI-25 as an integrated part of the conference to discuss the ongoing AGI research directly or indirectly related to NARS.
Workshop 6
Location:
Rm M114
Afternoon Session, 2pm to 6pm
Fenrir’s Leash - Can Your Team Control the AGI?
Chair: Trevor Buteau
Engage in a dynamic, fast-paced simulation of what it might be like to successfully instantiate an AGI. Through the format of a “tabletop game”, participants (or “players”) explore how AGI control and safety is as much a coordination and strategic challenge under uncertainty as it is a technical one.
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8:15am – 8:50am
Doors Open
Doors Open
8:15 – 8:50
Morning Session
9:00 to 12:00
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9:00 - 9:45
AGI-25 Opening Remarks
Matthew Ikle, AGI-25 Conference Chair
Kristinn Thórisson, Professor of Computer Science, Reykjavik University
Dr. Ragnhildur Helgadottir, Rector of Reykjavik University
Sigridur Hrund, Investor, Creator, Icelandic Humanitarian, Former Chair of FKA
9:45 - 10:30
Keynote
Tatiana Shavrina, Research Scientist, Meta Frontiers in LLM-Agents for Science Acceleration
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break 
10:50 - 12:10
Contributed Papers, Session 1
AGI & LLM
- Alexey Potapov and Vita Potapova, The Role of LLMs in AGI
- R. Wray, J. Kirk, and J. Laird, Applying Cognitive Design Patterns to General LLM Agents
- G. de Carvalho and K. Thórisson, Bad Reasoners, the Turing Trap & the Problem of Artificial Dualism
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch Break 
Afternoon Session
13:00 to 17:05
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13:10 - 13:55
Keynote
Alex Ororbia, Assistant Professor, RIT, Director, The Neural Adaptive Computing Laboratory (NAC Lab) The Mortal Computer: Beyond Difference Engines and Towards Biomimetic Intelligence
13:55 - 14:50
Contributed Papers, Session 2
Adaptation Optimization
- Artem Prokhorenko, Petr Kuderov, Evgenii Dzhivelikian and Aleksandr Panov, Temporal Predictive Coding as World Model for Reinforcement Learning
- Tyler Cody, MeTTa-TMPAL: MeTTa-based architecture for a self-writing process algebra of learning
- Robert Wray, Steven Jones and John Laird, Requirements for Recognition and Rapid Response to Unfamiliar Events Outside of Agent Design Scope
Q&A
14:50 - 15:10
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:55
Keynote
Richard Sutton, Research Scientist, KEEN TECH The Oak Architecture: A Vision of SuperIntelligence
15:55 - 17:05
Contributed Papers, Session 3
RL | ML | Optimization
- Cole Wyeth and Marcus Hutter, Value Under Ignorance in Universal Artificial Intelligence
- Yihuan Mao, Yipeng Kang, Peilun Li, Wei Xu and Chongjie Zhang, IBGP: Imperfect Byzantine Generals Problem for Zero-Shot Robustness in Communicative Multi-Agent Systems
- Yuxin Bai, Cecelia Shuai, Ashwin De Silva, Siyu Yu, Pratik Chaudhari and Joshua Vogelstein, Prospective Learning in Retrospect
- Kenric Nelson, Igor Oliveira, Amenah Al-Najafi, Fode Zhang and Tony Ng, Variational Inference Optimized Using the Curved Geometry of Coupled Free Energy
Q&A
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8:15am – 8:50am
Doors Open
Doors Open
8:15am – 8:50am
Morning Session
9:00 to 12:55
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9:00 - 10:30
Keynote, Young Researchers Session
Faezeh Habibi, PhD student, The Neural Adaptive Computing Laboratory (NAC Lab) & AI Researcher, SingularityNET
Leonard M. Eberding, PhD Student, CADIA, Department of Computer Science, Reykjavik University
Michael Timothy Bennett, Computer Scientist, Australian National University
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:35
Keynote
Ben Goertzel, Chairman, AGI Society
11:35 - 12:55
Contributed Papers, Session 4
Frameworks
- Ben Goertzel, OpenCog Hyperon: A Practical Path to Beneficial AGI and ASI
- Ben Goertzel, The Emergence of Modularization from Architecture Search via Optimal Transport
- Chloe A. Schaff and Kristinn R. Thórisson, Towards Synthetic Engineers: Requirements & Implications of the Conceptual Engineering Design Process
- George Wright, A Treasure Map to Metacognition
Q&A
12:55 - 13:55
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
13:55 to 17:45
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13:55 - 14:40
Keynote
Henry Minsky, CTO, Leela AI Implementing AGI Is Not Child’s Play — But It Should Be! A Path to Implementing 'Scientist AI'
14:40 - 15:40
Contributed Papers, Session 4
Perception | Relation Learning | Reasoning Systems
- Olivier Georgeon, Simon Gay and Paul Robterston, A Spatio-Temporal Schema Mechanism for Developmental Robotics
- Bowen Xu and Pei Wang, On the Essence of Spatial Sense and Objects in Intelligence
- Robert Johansson, Patrick Hammer and Tony Lofthouse, Arbitrarily Applicable Same/Opposite Relational Responding with NARS
Q&A
15:40 - 15:55
Coffee Break
15:55 - 16:40
Keynote
Kristinn R. Thórisson, Professor of Computer Science, Reykjavik University General Intelligence: Ingredients, Methods & Progress
16:40 - 17:45
Contributed Papers, Session 6
Cognitive Architectures Design Choices
- Nathan DiGilio and Pulin Agrawal, Neuro-symbolic LIDA’s Semantic Vision System
- Howard Schneider, Theory of Mind as a Core Component of Artificial General Intelligence
- Tangrui Li and Boyang Xu, On Improving Dynamic Resource Allocation in NARS with a Novel Bag Design
- Amber Gibson and Dmitry Sokolov, Toward a Modular Cognitive Architecture for Collective Intelligence Systems: A P2P Platform for Distributed Epistemology, Semantic Processing, and Scalable Memory
Q&A
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8:15am – 8:50am
Doors Open
Doors Open
8:15 – 8:50
Morning Session
9:00 to 12:20
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9:00 - 9:45
Keynote
Anna Ciaunica, Principal Investigator | Group Leader, Co-Embodied Self Lab (CELab) The No Body Problem: Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems
9:45 - 10:30
Keynote
Joscha Bach, AI Strategist, Liquid AI The Operation of Consciousness
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:10
Contributed Papers, Session 7
Consciousness
- Ouri Wolfson, The Direct Approach of Testing for AGI-Consciousness
- Shri Lal Raghudev Ram Singh, Which Consciousness Can Be Artificialized? Local Percept-Perceiver Phenomenon for the Existence of Machine Consciousness
- Ray Lee, Inverted Cognition: Toward Minds That Begin with Output and Derive Goals Retroactively
- Ignacio Cea, Is phenomenal consciousness necessary for AGI? A review of the theoretical landscape
12:10 - 13:10
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
13:10 to 16:05
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13:10 - 14:10
Contributed Papers, Session 8
Ethics | Compliance | AI Alignment
- Eli Sennesh and Maxwell Ramstead, An Affective-Taxis Hypothesis for Alignment and Interpretability
- Zhaowei Zhang, Fengshuo Bai, Mingzhi Wang, Haoyang Ye, Chengdong Ma and Yaodong Yang, Roadmap on Incentive Compatibility for AI Alignment and Governance in Sociotechnical Systems
- Serap Sisman-Ugur, Integrating AGI and Transhumanist Technologies in Education: An Integrative Framework of Cognitive Enhancement and Ethical Implications
- Ruben Laukkonen, Fionn Inglis, Shamil Chandaria, Lars Sandved-Smith, Edmundo Lopez-Sola, Jonathan Gold, Jakob Hohwy and Adam Elwood, Contemplative Superalignment
Q&A
14:10 - 14:30
Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:15
Keynote
Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor and Director, Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University Hananel Hazan, Senior Staff Scientist and Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University Bio-inspired AI and AI-powered Biology Research
15:15 - 16:05
Contributed Papers, Session 9
Intelligence Theory | Formalism
- Kyle Fuller, Deacon Sawyer, James Oswald and Thomas Ferguson, Resource-Relativized Legg-Hutter Intelligence
- Gabriel Simmons, A Reply to “Is Complexity An Illusion?”
Q&A
Intelligence Theory | Formalism
- Kyle Fuller, Deacon Sawyer, James Oswald and Thomas Ferguson, Resource-Relativized Legg-Hutter Intelligence
- Gabriel Simmons, A Reply to “Is Complexity An Illusion?”
Q&A
16:05 - 17:05
Panel
Moderator: Zar Goertzel, Formal Ethics Ontology Engineer, TrueAGI
Participants:
- Josef Urban, Distinguished Researcher, Head of AI, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC)
- Nil Geisweiler, AGI Researcher, SingularityNET
- Adam Vandervorst, AGI Researcher, Qoba.ai