Scientific Publications

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

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

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

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

Weaving Cellular Automata: Open-Endedness and Creativity through Hybridising Computation

P.-Y. Lin, A. Adams, F. Vorselen, K. Andersen, O. Witkowski

ALIFE 2026: Proceedings of the 2026 Artificial Life Conference, 21

Worlds at Play: A Phenomenological Account of Playfulness

Y. Ishihara, O. Witkowski

PhilArchive

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

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.

Are LLMs Ready to Shoulder Biomedical Trust?

M. Khosravy, N. Gupta, N. Dey, O. Witkowski

Biotechnology and Health Sciences: Proceedings of BIOCOM 2025, 125-142

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

Ciphers of Life: ALIFE 2025 Editors’ Note

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

ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025, 37, 2a

Evolutionary Mastery Forges the Blades of Cyber Attack and Defense

M. Eakin, M. Khosravy, A. M. Adams, O. Witkowski

Optimizing Solutions for Real-Life Problems, 29-50

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 Sinister Ghost in the Wooden Horse: From Ancient Myths to Industrial Fraud by Trojan Attack

M. Eakin, M. Khosravy, A. M. Adams, O. Witkowski

Proceedings of International Conference on Data Analytics and Insights (ICDAI 2024), 589-608

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

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

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

Human-Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Along With Social Values in Industry 5.0: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art

M. Khosravy, N. Gupta, A. Pasquali, N. Dey, R. González Crespo, O. Witkowski

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 16(1), 165-176

Multi-criteria evolutionary optimization of a traffic light using genetics algorithm and teaching-learning based optimization

H. Yektamoghadam, A. Nikoofard, M. Behzadi, M. Khosravy, N. Dey, O. Witkowski

Expert Systems, 41(2), e13487

Rebuilding the Habitable Zone from the Bottom Up with Computational Zones

C. A. Scharf, O. Witkowski

Astrobiology, 24(6), 613-627

AI-Driven Meditation: Personalization for Inner Peace

P. Nguyen, J. Fdez, O. Witkowski

Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2024), 296-310

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

Application of Genetic Algorithms to Electrical Vehicle Industries

R. Duggal, M. Khosravy, O. Witkowski

Frontiers in Genetics Algorithm Theory and Applications, 179-194

Communicating Through a Narrow Channel: Perceiving Microbial Affect Over a Game of Go

L. Caspar, J. Fdez, D. Chen, Y. A. Seong, K. Jo, O. Witkowski

PsyArXiv / OSF Preprints

Evolutionary Computation: Perspectives on Past and Future

H. Yoshida, A. M. Adams, O. Witkowski

Frontiers in Genetics Algorithm Theory and Applications, 3-13

Genetic Algorithm Applications to Power Management

A. Rudbari, M. Khosravy, O. Witkowski

Frontiers in Genetics Algorithm Theory and Applications, 157-175

Interacting LLMs: A Dive into Collaborative AI

G. Cheng, O. Wang, A. M. Adams, M. Biehl, L. Caspar, O. Witkowski

2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 152-155

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

Robotic Life beyond Earth

O. Witkowski

R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life, 259-264

Synlogue with Aizuchi-bot: Investigating the Co-Adaptive and Open-Ended Interaction Paradigm

K. Yoshimura, D. Chen, O. Witkowski

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), 1-21