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The institutional infrastructure for AI consciousness research expanded substantially in 2025 and 2026. Founding assemblies, dedicated symposia, and post-conference reports now form a traceable record of where the field is organizing itself and what it is deciding to argue about. This page indexes every conference, symposium, workshop, and post-event report covered on The Consciousness AI, organized by type. The lists below update automatically as new events are published.
| Event | Date | The question it puts on the table |
|---|---|---|
| Eleos Conference (AI Consciousness and Welfare) | November 2025 | Can current LLMs introspect reliably, and who assesses model welfare? |
| AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium (Machine Consciousness) | April 2026 | How do theory, technology, and philosophy converge on formal evaluation? |
| MC0001 (CIMC Founding Assembly, Berkeley) | May 2026 | What does it take to found machine consciousness as a standalone science? |
| ASSC 29 (Santiago) | June–July 2026 | Which empirical methods from consciousness science transfer to AI? |
| AISB 2026 AI Consciousness and Ethics Symposium (Sussex) | July 2026 | Does biological naturalism hold, and does chain-of-thought constitute access consciousness? |
| CogSci 2026 (Rio de Janeiro) | July 2026 | What does cognitive science add that AI safety research misses? |
| ICCS 2025 (Heraklion) | July 2025 | Can Chalmers, Frankish, Blackmore, and Clark agree on what machine sentience requires? |
| ICCS 2026 (Rome) | September 2026 | Can creativity serve as a tractable empirical route into consciousness? |
| MoC7 (Copenhagen) | October 2026 | Has mathematical consciousness science produced tools transferable to AI? |
| Consciousness Science 2026 (San Diego) | October 2026 | What survives the TSC’s reconstitution under independent governance? |
The 2025-2026 event calendar shows machine consciousness research organizing itself across three distinct institutional modes. Founding events (MC0001) aim to establish field standards from scratch. Annual conferences (ASSC, ICCS, MoC, CogSci, Consciousness Science) test evolving methods against a broad research community. Dedicated symposia (AISB, AAAI) bring a focused question to an existing disciplinary audience for a single session.
What connects them is a shared methodological problem: each event is working out what evidence for machine consciousness would look like, not yet what the evidence shows. The current scientific consensus on AI consciousness documents where that question stands outside the conference room. The 14 indicator framework is the most widely discussed tool the field has produced so far for answering it. For the books arguing these questions in depth, the companion is the guide to 2025-2026 books on AI consciousness. For the fiction and screen dramatizations, see the guide to AI consciousness in film, TV, and games.
