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Relational neurosymbolic Markov models

Telling agents what to do Our most powerful artificial agents cannot be told exactly what to do, especially in complex planning environments. They almost exclusively rely on neural networks to perform their tasks, but neural networks cannot easily be told to obey certain rules or adhere to existing background knowledge. While such uncontrolled behaviour might […]

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Learning to see the physical world: an interview with Jiajun Wu

Image Credit: Jiajun Wu, Yunzhi Zhang, Hong-Xing Yu, Joy Hsu, Jiayuan Mao. Discovering Hybrid World Representations with Co-Evolving Foundation Models. In Proceedings of the Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Trends in AI (ETA) Track, 2026. In the latest issue of AI Matters, a publication of ACM SIGAI, Ella Scallan caught up with Jiajun

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AAAI presidential panel – AI and sustainability

Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / Digital Society Bell / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics. Members of the

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From Visual Question Answering to multimodal learning: an interview with Aishwarya Agrawal

In the latest issue of AI Matters, a publication of ACM SIGAI, Ella Scallan caught up with Aishwarya Agrawal to find out more about her research, what most excites her about the future of AI, and advice for early career researchers. You were awarded an Honourable Mention for the 2019 AAAI / ACM SIGAI Doctoral

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Governing the rise of interactive AI will require behavioral insights

Clarote & AI4Media / AI Mural / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Interactive AI: From tool to companion AI is no longer just a translator or image recognizer. Today, we engage with systems that remember our preferences, proactively manage our calendars, and even provide emotional support. This is interactive AI. Unlike traditional software, these systems are:

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Congratulations to the #AAAI2026 award winners

A number of prestigious AAAI awards were presented during the official opening ceremony of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026) in Singapore, on Thursday 22 January. The winners are as follows: 2026 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for Humanity The AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for Humanity recognises the positive impacts of

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#AAAI2026 social media round up: part 2

The 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence took place in Singapore from 20-27 January, the first time that the event has been held outside of North America. In our first social media round up we had a peak at the first half of the conference which hosted the tutorials, the bridge programme, and the doctoral

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Interview with Zijian Zhao: Labor management in transportation gig systems through reinforcement learning

Each year, a small group of PhD students are chosen to participate in the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium. This initiative provides an opportunity for the students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. For the past couple of years, we’ve been meeting

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AIhub monthly digest: January 2026 – moderating guardrails, humanoid soccer, and attending AAAI

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

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#AAAI2026 social media round up: part 1

The 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence is currently taking place in Singapore, the first time that the event has been held outside of North America. The opening two days of the conference hosted the tutorials, the bridge programme, and the doctoral and undergraduate consortium, with the main conference – including the invited talks and

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