This week saw researchers gather in Madrid at the eighth AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES). As well as keynote talks, panels and poster sessions, the organisers experimented with a slightly different format for the contributed talks. All speakers in a session gave their talks, then contributed in a joint discussion on common themes, before the floor was opened to questions from the audience.
We cast an eye over social media platforms to find out what participants got up to at the event.
Find out what’s on the agenda at #AIES2025 next week. We’re looking forward to attending in person. Hope to see some of you there!
aihub.org/2025/10/17/w…
— AIhub.org (@aihub.org) 17 October 2025 at 14:05
AIES is underway! We are looking forward to a wonderful few days of connection and education. pic.twitter.com/fhDD9Ot8BN
— AAAI (@RealAAAI) October 21, 2025
Congratulations to the #AIES2025 best paper award winners! https://t.co/s9tDxadNDJ
— AIhub (@aihuborg) October 21, 2025
It sounds cliché, but I am honestly very excited to be here for the first time! #aies2025 Looking forward to learning from this single track conference, and of course, presenting our RAI umbrella review!
— Gisela Reyes-Cruz (@agiselarc.bsky.social) 20 October 2025 at 09:09
We’ll be at #AIES2025 presenting Atmadeep’s work on Postcolonial Ethics for Robots www.martimbrandao.com/papers/Ghosh… We:
– analyse 7 major roboethics frameworks, identifying gaps for the Global South
– propose principles to make AI robots culturally responsive and genuinely empowering
— Civic and Responsible AI Lab (CRAIL) (@civicandresponsibleai.com) 18 October 2025 at 17:48
New conceptual paper (w/Dana Calacci and Cindy Lin) at #ACM #AAAI #AIES2025 on why there’s no accountability for social claims in so-called “general-purpose” Machine Learning research. I will present the paper on the 21st on a gargantuan poster;)
Paper: lnkd.in/ePn8USDx
My website: koutianqi.info
— Tianqi Kou (@koutianqi.bsky.social) 19 October 2025 at 19:39
Excited to be here today at #AAAI #AIES2025. Looking forward to meeting more people and discussing governance and societal impacts of AI.
— David Manheim (@davidmanheim.alter.org.il) 20 October 2025 at 07:51
I am incredibly excited and honoured that our #AIES2025 paper on *Measuring What Matters: Connecting AI Ethics Evaluations to System Attributes, Hazards, and Harms* got the *best paper award*
This paper is led by @ShalalehRismani and coauthored by @renee_m_shelby Lea Davis and… pic.twitter.com/liXBNED4GB— Negar Rostamzadeh (@negar_rz) October 20, 2025
Next stop for conference hopping: #AIES2025 in Madrid!
I’ll be giving an oral presentation of our paper Why (Not) Use AI during paper session 1 tomorrow (10/20) at 11:45AM 🙂
See details in thread below 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2502.07287
— Jimin Mun (@jiminmun.bsky.social) 20 October 2025 at 09:51
Presented out paper on “AI Policy For Whom? Reclaiming Governance from Capitalist Capture” this morning at #aies2025, in a kind of new semi-panel format which was honestly really useful I feel. Many thanks to my coauthors and co-panelists. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI…
— pettter, stuff scientist (@pettter.bsky.social) 20 October 2025 at 11:53
In Madrid at #AIES2025 for the first in-person conference in a while.
Our work makes “a case for specialisation” in AI in particular, but our arguments are made for most non-human entities like companies.
More details in @mariametig‘s post https://t.co/P9F8guUrOz pic.twitter.com/KdXWdBGxuV
— El Mahdi El Mhamdi (@L_badikho) October 21, 2025
Despite Etihad’s best attempts in delaying my flights, managed to present this at the poster session yesterday! Some great questions and feedback. Felt great meeting old friends and making new ones. #AIES2025 https://t.co/hr4ylqrHXs pic.twitter.com/XmN07J24wm
— Siddharth Jaiswal (@siddsjaiswal) October 21, 2025
Excited to present our paper
“Do Your Guardrails Even Guard? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Guardrails in Aligning LLM Outputs with Expert Expectations” at #AIES2025 🇪🇸 Madrid!
🗓️ Session 3: Alignment with Whom?
🕒 Oct 21 at 3:15 PMDrop by and say hi if you’re attending!
— Anindya Das Antar (@AntarAnindya) October 20, 2025
Chee Hae Chung @grailcenter.bsky.social present “AI & the Social Contract” #AIES2025 exploring how artificial intelligence reshapes the foundations of trust, governance, & public accountability in democratic societies.
🔗 www.aies-conference.com/2025/schedule/#AI #AIGovernance #AIpolicy #TechPolicy