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3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid

Priya Donti, an MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor, studies how machine learning can make the power grid more efficient and resilient. Photo credit: Adam Glanzman. By Adam Zewe Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that enable the training […]

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Interview with Xiang Fang: Multi-modal learning and embodied intelligence

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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Interview with Anindya Das Antar: Evaluating effectiveness of moderation guardrails in aligning LLM outputs

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,

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Taking humanoid soccer to the next level: An interview with RoboCup trustee Alessandra Rossi

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

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The Machine Ethics podcast: Companion AI with Giulia Trojano

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. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano This month we’re chatting with Giulia Trojano about AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, deskilling

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AAAI presidential panel – AI perception versus reality video discussion

Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / Distorted Dandelions / 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

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2025 AAAI / ACM SIGAI Doctoral Consortium interviews compilation

Contributors to the 2025 Doctoral Consortium series. Authors pictured in order of their interview publication date (left to right, top to bottom). 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

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AAAI 2025 presidential panel on the future of AI research – video discussion on AGI

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 of AI research in a structured way. As part of this

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The Machine Ethics podcast: the AI bubble with Tim El-Sheikh

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. The AI bubble with Tim El-Sheikh This month we’re chatting again with Tim El-Sheikh. We discuss podcasting, history of openAI, London

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