Nominations are solicited for the 2026 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an

In a new series of interviews, we’re meeting some of the PhD students that were selected to take part in the Doctoral Consortium at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025). During the conference in Bologna, we caught up with Mario Mirabile who is studying for his PhD in trustworthy AI and multi-agent systems

IceMing & Digit / Stochastic Parrots at Work / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Better Images of AI and We and AI have been exploring the role of visual and narrative metaphors in shaping our understanding of AI. As part of this we invited some researchers who have been conducting different types of research into the

  Autonomous systems increasingly face value-laden choices. This blog post introduces the idea of designing “conflict-sensitive” autonomous traffic agents that explicitly recognise, reason about, and act upon competing ethical, legal, and social values. We present the concept of Value-Aligned Operational Design Domains (VODDs) – a framework that embeds stakeholder value hierarchies and contextual handover rules

Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI is a podcast from AAAI featuring thought-provoking discussions between AI experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts from different age groups and backgrounds. Each episode delves into how generational experiences shape views on AI, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that come with the advancement of this transformative technology. Human-centric