Submission Guidelines 

Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original academic works in the following formats:

·      Workshop proposal (1-page)

·      Abstract submission (up to 250 words)

·      Research poster (1 slide)

·      Full paper (up to 4 pages, excluding references)

All submissions must use the “IEEE conference template”: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/ieee-conference-template/grfzhhncsfqn. Submissions must be original (unpublished) work. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by an expert committee and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Reviews will be double-blind, hence do not include your names as authors for your submission, you may use “anonymous”.

Submissions should be made electronically through the SiC 2025 submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=SIC/2025/Conference

Conference scope and themes

The topic of SI is interdisciplinary in nature. We welcome submissions from a range of fields including: computer science and engineering (e.g. robotics, expert systems, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction), philosophy and ethics, social sciences (e.g. political science, psychology, economics), environmental and space sciences, law and public policy, literature, neuroscience and biomedical sciences (e.g. animal behaviour, cognition).

Topics of interest (conference streams) include but are not limited to:

·    Conceptualising and evaluating SI (e.g. defining SI, AI's progress towards SI [from LLMs to true understanding], uncertainty in AI and SI, quantum computing and its role in SI, quantifying SI [metrics, tests, levels, evaluations], impacts of commercial LLMs on the future of AI, explainability and interpretability in SI systems)

·    Cognitive science of SI (autonomous systems and decision-making at SI levels, AI reasoning, biological vs. artificial pathways to SI, neuroscience-inspired approaches to SI, human-AI collaboration and augmented intelligence)

·    Ethical, legal, and policy implications of SI (e.g. existential risk mitigation, the role of embodiment in SI agents, adversarial AI and security threats, consciousness of SI agents, frameworks for SI governance)

·    Frontiers and human progress with SI (e.g. SI in science discovery and acceleration, computational creativity and SI art generation, how SI changes human life routines and re-shapes civilisations, multi-agent coordination among SI entities, role of researchers in a world with SI, democracy and sustainable development)