Scientific Publications

An Operational Framework for Affect-Adjacent Structure in Plant–Environment Interaction

B. J. Calvert, L. Caspar, O. Witkowski

Bioengineering, 13(3), 287

Beyond the attention economy, towards an ecology of attending. A manifesto

G. Bombaerts, T. Hannes, M. Adam, A. Aloisi, J. Anderson, P. S. Arvidson, et al.

AI & Society, 41(1), 477-492

Defining Life: A Conversation

K. Kofman, C. Adami, F. Baluška, J. Bongard, D. Brash, et al.

Organisms. Journal of Biological Sciences, 9(1), 11-47

Neurodivergent influenceability in agentic AI as a contingent solution to the AI alignment problem

A. Hernández-Espinosa, F. S. Abrahão, O. Witkowski, H. Zenil

PNAS Nexus, 5(4), pgag076

Symbiotic Alignment via Collective Predictive Coding: A Theoretical Framework for Co-Creative Human–AI Ecosystems

T. Taniguchi, Y. Hayashi, M. Hirose, M. Oka, K. Suzuki, O. Witkowski, A. Tang

Artificial Life, 1-29

Towards Robust Universal Perturbation Attacks: A Float-Coded, Penalty-Driven Evolutionary Approach

S. Wang, M. Khosravy, N. Gupta, O. Witkowski

arXiv preprint, arXiv:2601.12624

ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025

O. Witkowski, A. M. Adams, L. Sinapayen, M. Baltieri, M. Khosravy

MIT Press

Edited proceedings volume.

Bidirectional Communication Between Xenobot Cultures? Toward Collective Intelligence Across Diverse Biological Systems

A. Parsa, V. P. Pai, L. Caspar, F. Pigozzi, O. Witkowski, M. Levin

Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 37, 2025(1), 83

Robots reading recipes: large language models as translators between humans and machines

O. Wang, G. Cheng, L. Caspar, A. Yokota, M. Khosravy, O. Witkowski

Artificial Life and Robotics, 30(3), 407-416

Selves as Perspectives: From Biological Life to Superintelligence and a Bodhisattva Project

T. Doctor, O. Witkowski, P. Colognese, Y. Ishihara, M. Levin

PsyArXiv / OSF Preprints

The Woven Mind: Ada Lovelace, Intuitive Computing, and Creative Machines

P.-Y. Lin, O. Witkowski

Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025, ALIFE 2025, 61-70

An Open-Ended Approach to Understanding Local, Emergent Conservation Laws in Biological Evolution

A. M. Adams, E. Jacopin, P. Gagrani, O. Witkowski

2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1-8

Deep Learning Security Breach by Evolutionary Universal Perturbation Attack (EUPA)

N. Gupta, M. Khosravy, A. Pasquali, O. Witkowski

IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 5(11), 5655-5665

On Creativity and Open-Endedness

L. B. Soros, A. M. Adams, S. Kalonaris, O. Witkowski, C. Guckelsberger

ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference, 60

Rebuilding the Habitable Zone from the Bottom Up with Computational Zones

C. A. Scharf, O. Witkowski

Astrobiology, 24(6), 613-627

The Ethics of Life as It Could Be: Do We Have Moral Obligations to Artificial Life?

O. Witkowski, E. Schwitzgebel

Artificial Life, 30(2), 193-215