About

The premise for the workshop is to explore the confluence of theoretical, empirical, and technological advances for developing a unified science of intelligent systems that extends beyond the individual person. The workshop will coordinate the efforts of computer scientists, psychologists, education researchers, neuroscientists, and biologists to lay the foundations for a new science of augmented intelligence, premised on the observation that people very rarely solve problems or develop understandings on their own. Instead, people recruit other people and technologies to help them, and to such a large extent that the apt unit for understanding cognition is typically not an individual person, but rather a larger system that incorporates multiple people and the tools that they have created to help them coordinate. Through interactive workshops, we will grapple with theoretical and applied questions involving the nature of minds, how adaptive systems come into existence that can robustly solve a wide range of problems, and how humans and machines can complement each other’s strengths during learning and creation.

Format

Our goal is to make the workshop as interactive as possible. Here are some of the participation formats that we have planned so far:

  1. Weekly meetings. Each meeting will consist of 2 research talks by workshop presenters on each week, each lasting 25 minutes, followed by two 5-minute Q&A sessions devoted specifically to each presentation. After both talks, we will have a 30-minute open discussion inspired by the two presentations and their overlap.

  2. Asynchronous participation. All workshop materials and meeting recordings will be posted online. The meeting-related discussions can continue afterwards in the respective slack and jamboard channels.

  3. Community. To foster the research community, we will create a slack group where participants can discuss any issues related to augmented intelligence.

  4. Reports. We will select six rapporteurs from among the workshop panelists to prepare reports describing the themes and discussions from the workshop. The intention is for these reports to be integrated into two or more documents fit for public and scholarly dissemination.