Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems

The Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS 2025) focuses on research that aims to understand and replicate the full range of human cognitive abilities in computational systems. Unlike narrow benchmarks that dominate much of modern AI, ACS emphasizes integrated, general-purpose reasoning: planning under uncertainty, analogical reasoning, language understanding grounded in world knowledge, learning from sparse data, and the architecture of mind more broadly. The conference bridges cognitive science, AI, and psychology.

ACS is well suited for researchers interested in symbolic AI, cognitive architectures, hybrid neuro-symbolic systems, and theories of mind that go beyond statistical pattern matching. Cognitive scientists, AI researchers, roboticists, and philosophers of mind all find common ground here. Graduate students seeking an alternative to purely connectionist approaches will discover a rigorous and historically deep tradition of research that continues to generate novel and impactful ideas about the nature of intelligence.