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Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we find out about a robot to navigate hiking trails, learn from logical constraints, analyse the effectiveness of moderation guardrails, and travel to Singapore to attend AAAI. Attending AAAI 2026 This … Read More

Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. 2025 wrap up with Lisa Talia Moretti & Ben Byford For our 2025 round up episode we’re again chatting with Lisa Talia Moretti on the prevalence … Read More

What if AI were designed not only to optimize choices for individuals, but to help groups reach decisions together? At IJCAI 2025 in Montreal, I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Kate Larson of the University of Waterloo, a leading expert in multi-agent systems whose research explores how AI can support collective decision-making. In this interview, she reflects on … Read More

We’re pleased to announce that we will be giving an introduction to science communication for AI researchers at AAAI this year. This will be held on Wednesday 21 January from 13:00 – 14:30. The session is part of the Undergraduate Consortium programme. However, if you are attending the conference and fancy finding out how you can communicate your research to … Read More

In their paper presented at AIES 2025, “Do Your Guardrails Even Guard?” Method for Evaluating Effectiveness of Moderation Guardrails in Aligning LLM Outputs with Expert User Expectations, Anindya Das Antar, Xun Huan and Nikola Banovic propose a method to evaluate and select guardrails that best align LLM outputs with domain knowledge from subject-matter experts. Here, Anindya tells us more about … Read More

By Michael Allen Thousands of kilometres of cables and pipelines criss-cross Europe’s sea floors, carrying the gas, electricity and data that keep modern life running. Yet these critical links lie mostly unprotected. A series of recent incidents, such as the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions, has raised fears that Europe’s underwater infrastructure is becoming a target, and that defending it … Read More

This year, the Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence will take place outside of North America for the first time. From Tuesday 20 January to Tuesday 27 January, Singapore will play host to the 40th edition of the conference. The event will feature invited talks, tutorials, workshops, and an extensive technical programme. There are also a whole host of other … Read More

A core objective of RoboCup is to promote and advance robotics and AI research through the challenges offered by its various leagues. The ultimate goal of the soccer competition is that, by 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots will defeat the most recent winner of the FIFA World Cup. To bring this vision closer to reality, the RoboCup … Read More

If you’ve ever gone hiking, you know trails can be challenging and unpredictable. A path that was clear last week might be blocked today by a fallen tree. Poor maintenance, exposed roots, loose rocks, and uneven ground further complicate the terrain, making trails difficult for a robot to navigate autonomously. After a storm, puddles can form, mud can shift, and … Read More

Elise Racine & The Bigger Picture / Web of Influence I / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 In March 2025, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), published a report on the Future of AI Research. The report, which was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi covers 17 different AI topics and aims to clearly identify the trajectory … Read More