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Resources

Papers, talks, videos, slides, and other digital traces.

Turing, Searle, Lovelace: Three Levels of Mental Attribution in AI

A茂da Elamrani 路 BAM螢 C-Tests Workshop, University of Bamberg, 2026

A talk on mental attribution in AI, moving across behaviour, architecture, and explainability as three levels for reconsidering machine minds.

Three Levels of Distinction Between Biological and Artificial Consciousness

A茂da Elamrani 路 KogWis 2025, Artificial Consciousness, Ruhr-University Bochum, 2025

A talk from the Artificial Consciousness session at KogWis 2025, held with Henry Shevlin and Wanja Wiese on scientific and public approaches to AI consciousness.

Introduction to Artificial Consciousness: History, Current Trends and Ethical Challenges

A茂da Elamrani 路 arXiv, 2025

A broad introduction to artificial consciousness, covering historical context, current research trends, and ethical challenges.

Understanding Artificial Consciousness: Clarifying Concepts and Advancing Research

A茂da Elamrani 路 Models of Consciousness 5, University of Bamberg, 2024

A MoC5 talk clarifying artificial consciousness terminology and current research, with attention to Attention Schema Theory and Transformer architectures.

Inputs, Outputs, and Meta-Models

A茂da Elamrani 路 Models of Consciousness, University of Oxford, 2019

A talk proposing a theory-neutral way to compare scientific theories of consciousness by treating them as functions with inputs, outputs, and mapping rules.

Reviewing Tests for Machine Consciousness

A茂da Elamrani and Roman V. Yampolskiy 路 Journal of Consciousness Studies 26 (5-6):35-64, 2019

An analytic review of proposed tests for machine consciousness, comparing architecture-based and behavior-based approaches.

Of Mills and Machines: Computing Thought Experiments on Consciousness

A茂da Raoult 路 Manuscript

A paper on machine consciousness through Leibniz鈥檚 Mill and later thought experiments on qualia, intentionality, and artificial minds.