Conscious Learning Summer School

July 13-17, 2026, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

The AI field is facing a great crisis. The crisis is twofold. First, well-known media-hyped AI projects are human intelligence assisted by machines in an open-skull mode. The human is the homunculus in the open skull who is intelligent, not the machine assistants. Second, inside the open skull, it is the human homunculus who conducts misconduct of Post-Selection misconduct (also known as P-Hacking) from many trained random systems. That is, he post-selects the luckiest system based on its luck on a known validation data set. This misconduct is like selecting the luckiest lottery tickets from the last known lottery draw. The luckiest lottery ticket is not intelligent, and its luck in the last validation set will be grossly different in any future test set. In other words, almost all published test error rates are not test error rates, but rather, only the smallest validation error rates. Therefore, the AI bubble will eventually burst.

Based on over 35 years of research, since the first developmental network Cresceptron, through SHOSLIF, DN1, DN2, and DN3, this summer school will teach conscious learning, how to enable machines to learn consciousness using DN3 so that (1) AI machines do not need a human homunculus inside their skulls, and (2) the reported errors are truly test errors.

This is the first-ever summer school that introduces machine consciousness in computational terms. It will be held in East Lansing, Michigan, USA, on-site, July 13-17, 2026, with a tour in Michigan 18-19, 2026. The intended audience includes researchers, practitioners, administrators, funders, graduate students, undergraduate students, and high-school students. (High school students can be accompanied by parents. Parents of a high-school student can attend the school without paying tuition.) Those who pass the exam will be issued a BMI CL 2026 certificate. A number of travel grants are available from summer school sponsors.

We also want to hear from you because your voice matters in building this community. Tell us what challenges you face learning about AI, what questions keep you up at night about career paths, and what you would want from the Conscious Learning Summer School. Send your questions to sbagchi@genisama.com. Visit clsummerschool.com to reach the social media sites.