I think it's problematic to view the AI research community as having a single agenda. It's diverse, and there are many views.

Also worth reminding those who may not be aware that LLMs are a sub-field of Deep Learning, which is a sub-field of Neural networks, which is a sub-sub-field of AI.

The thing that gets me is that of all communities, I’d certainly expect the AI research community to be very aware of the limitations of LLMs!

IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment.

Submission link: forms.gle/xzfax1VCTVim...

#AAMAS2026

So nine women, working together, can complete one pregnancy in a month? 🤷

The abstracts submission deadline for the main technical tracks is fast approaching! Don't miss your chance to present your research in Cyprus and connect with top experts in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems🔔

📅 Submission deadline: October 1, 2025
#AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents

1971 #ACMTuringAward recipient John McCarthy was born #OTD in 1927. Dr. McCarthy's lecture, "The Present State of Research on Artificial Intelligence" is a topic that covers the area in which he has achieved considerable recognition for his work. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

Described accessibly (Hopefully) in a Conversation article.

My article Interlinked Computing in 2040: Safety, Truth, Ownership and Accountability has just won the journal's best paper award ( www.computer.org/publications... )

A reminder that the 70+ year-old research discipline of AI is much bigger than genAI, much bigger than just deep learning, much bigger than Big Tech. AI includes symbolic reasoning, multi-agent systems and statistical machine learning and is used for astrophysics, renewable energy and climate models

Adding AI watermark to latest paper...

A leading Ai conference ought to know better!

The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems is coming to Cyprus this year.

youtu.be/aAGHxUPZInY

#AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents

(2/2) Note: deadline 9th June, "We can only consider applicants who are citizens or residents of New Zealand or Australia or on a current working visa."

More information: ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Position (permanent): Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Information Management at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.

My school is advertising for an academic position. (1/2)

Framing of AI safety as primarily about x-risk has 3 drawbacks:
1.Excludes researchers with different perspectives about what AI safety is and why we should care about
2.Misleads public about the field's scope and necessity
3.Creates resistance to build safe AI systems from those skeptical of x-risk

Our paper "AI safety for everyone" with Balint Gyevnar is out at Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
We challenge the narrative that AI safety is primarily about minimizing existential risks from AI. Why does this matter?

Congratulations! 🎉👏

Ooh, the controversy! I pronounce it "Ay-MAS". We'll see what AAMAS attendees think on Friday. Am also curious as to whether the pronunciation aligns with geography ...

Delighted to share our most recent paper: "A Scoresheet for Explainable AI" (with John & Sebastian).

It will be presented at @aamasconf.bsky.social later this month.

🎬 Short YouTube summary (5 minutes): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpf...

📝 Link to the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.098...

Here is how I have been comparing the two big hype phenomena in AI and robotics, in my recent talks. Spoiler alert: the hype is unfounded.

OpenAI: "Users have told us that understanding how the model reasons ... helps build trust in its answers."

Anthropic: "Do reasoning models accurately verbalize their reasoning? Our new paper shows they don't."

www.anthropic.com/research/rea...

AI Hype: The phenomenon where experts without expertise hype up imminent arrival of expertise without experts. #AIAphorisms