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Topics that have been chosen

  1. Grief and anger in dogs, humans, and machines
  2. Human and super-human intelligence are likely to be achieved and difficult to prevent.
  3. Heirarchy in humans, chimps, and machines.
  4. Number sense and mathematical ability in humans, animals, and machines.
  5. Language in humans, animals, and large language models
  6. Emergence of motivation in animals humans and machines
  7. Shame, guilt, and morality in humans, animals, and machines
  8. The Creation of "Art" in Humans, Machines, and Animals
  9. Self-models in humans and machines
  10. How do human, pig and AI emotional intelligence differ
  11. B-1 Should human-level or superior artificial intelligence be allowed to develop? (x2)
  12. B-2 What are the implications of the theories of intelligence ...? (x2)
  13. Sympathy in humans, elephants, and the AI Jessica
  14. Consciousness in humans, animals, and machines
  15. Love as it is present in humans, animals, and machines
  16. Learning, communication, and manipulation in humans, animals, and AI companions
  17. Creation of "Music" in Humans, Machines, and Animals
  18. Convincing arguments against/an overall discussion of “strong AI”
  19. Computational creativity for novel content generation compared to human creativity
  20. Emergent conscious behaviour in humans, animals and machines
  21. Appreciation of beauty in humans, animals, and machines
  22. Language acquisition in humans, animals, and machines
  23. The emergence of communication systems in ants, humans, artificial intelligence