Call for Papers: Mind in the Age of AI-workshop
The emergence of artificial intelligence — large language models, autonomous AI agents, robotics — may represent one of the most significant transformations in human cognitive history, comparable to the emergence of language, writing, or the internet. Human cognition has always evolved in constant interaction with its environment and tools. AI is now becoming a central part of that environment: it shapes how we think, and we shape how it develops. This recursive co-evolution raises fundamental questions about the nature of mind, agency, and what it means to be human.
Mind in the Age of AI-workshop, 19th of August 2026, University of Turku
This pre-workshop explores these questions under the broad theme "Mind in the Age of AI." The concept of mind is understood widely, encompassing cognitive processes (including metacognition, attention, and executive function), consciousness and phenomenological experience, agency and free will, and motivation and emotion.
Please send your abstract of max 250 words to jusjyl@utu.fi by June 1. Decisions will be informed on June 12. Read more about the workshop here: https://sites.utu.fi/mindintheageofai/
This project is part of the project Transform-AI, funded by the Strategic Research Council. The pre-workshop serves as a broad opening to the main Agential Capacities in Context -workshop, June 20 – 21st 2026.