Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

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{{Infobox academic conference|abbreviation=AGI|discipline=Artificial general intelligence|publisher=Springer Nature|history=2008-present|frequency=Annual|website=https://agi-conference.org/|logo=AGI Society Logo.png}}

The Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a meeting of researchers in the field of Artificial General Intelligence organized by the [http://www.agi-society.org AGI Society], steered by Marcus Hutter and Ben Goertzel.{{Cite web |title=Governance |url=https://agi-society.org/governance/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=AGI Society |language=en-US}} It has been held annually since 2008.{{Cite web |title=dblp: Artificial General Intelligence |url=https://dblp.org/db/conf/agi/index.html |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=dblp.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://agi-conference.org/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=AGI Conference Landing Page |language=en-US}} The conference was initiated by the 2006 Bethesda Artificial General Intelligence Workshop and has since been hosted at various international venues.{{Cite web |last=Boyle |first=Alan |date=2024-08-17 |title=Can AI agents become conscious? Experts look ahead to artificial general intelligence |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2024/agi-consciousness-ai-debate/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=GeekWire |language=en-US}}

Locations and History

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Notable Speakers

The conference has attracted many speakers over the years including Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio

{{Cite web |title=Presentations |url=https://yoshuabengio.org/presentations/ |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=Yoshua Bengio |language=en-CA}}“Deep Learning for AI”, Keynote talk at the Artificial General Intelligence conference, AGI’14, Quebec City, August 2nd, 2014. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhdfIPzj24 Video of the talk]. and Richard S. SuttonToward Learning Human-level Predictive Knowledge, AGI keynote, March 5, 2010. {{Cite web |title=Rich Sutton's Recent Talks |url=http://incompleteideas.net/Talks/Talks.html#lugano |access-date=2025-05-17 |website=incompleteideas.net}} as well as Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Gary Marcus, John E. Laird, Peter Norvig, Joscha Bach, François Chollet, John L. Pollock, Bill Hibbard, Hugo de Garis, Stan Franklin, Steve Omohundro, Randal A. Koene, Ernst Dickmanns, Margaret Boden, David Hanson, Roman Yampolskly, Selmer Bringsjord, Kristinn R. Thórisson and Nick Bostrom.

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