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Florida Atlantic’s Center for the Future Mind will host Mindfest 2025: Sentience, Autonomy and the Future of Human-AI Interaction ��on Wednesday, March 12 and Thursday, March 13 on ��������’s Boca Raton campus at 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton.

MindFest 2025 is a groundbreaking conference exploring the nature of mind – natural, artificial, and hybrid – and the future of intelligent systems. It offers an inspiring environment for two days of philosophical inquiry and interdisciplinary dialogue. This year’s theme, “Sentience, Autonomy, and the Future of Human- AI Interaction,” focuses on the rise of large language model (LLM) - based agents as well as the nature of sentience and consciousness in the brain. The film “Her” famously depicted Samantha, a highly personalized AI agent tailored to the needs and personality of her user, Theodore. Today’s AI agents – while far less sophisticated – raise urgent philosophical questions about agency, autonomy, disinformation, consciousness, the future of work and the nature of mind.

Mindfest is partnering with the PBS national television show “Closer to Truth” to showcase interviews of many of the conference speakers.

The conference is organized by Susan Schneider, the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor at ��������, former NASA chair and Distinguished Scholar at the Library of Congress. The Center is based within ��������’s Brain Institute, as well as the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at ��������. Conference speakers include Robert Lawrence Kuhn, “Closer to Truth” Landscape of Consciousness; Robin Hanson, George Mason University; Zoltan Istvan, Transhumanist author and Presidential candidate 2016; Tam Hunt, University of California, Santa Barbara; Johathan Schooler, University of California, Santa Barbara; Julia Mossbridge, Future Intelligence; ��James Hughes, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies at University of Massachusetts; Mihaela Constantinescu, University of Bucharest; and more.

Below is a sampling of conference sessions:

• The Age of LLM: Extending a Deep Analysis of a Society Dominated by Brain Emulation AIs
• AI, Virtual Worlds, Agency and Deathbots
• Transhumanism, AI and the Future of Selfhood
• LLM Personhood, Agency and Understanding

For the full program, visit �� /future-mind/mindfest/. To register, visit

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