Little known fact: it's only our data that keeps data centers from flying into space. aifails.substack.com/p/data-cente...

Wasn’t there a volcanic eruption, terrorist attack and global pandemic? Oh wait … #ThatWasntLuxon

We would like to welcome Professor Sabine Hauert from the University of Bristol to the AAMAS 2026 keynote stage! Discover more about her speech on "Designing Trustworthy Robot Swarms for Real-World Applications".

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I also enjoyed “Careless people” - and, being a kiwi, appreciated some of the New Zealand related stories.

darkly comedic at times

Prepare for an inspiring keynote speech in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems!
Joanna Bryson from the Hertie School will deliver a keynote address on "the Limits of Artificial Agency" at AAMAS 2026🎤

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Michael Wooldridge from the University of Oxford will share expert insights at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems!🎤

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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

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TBH I got the answer I deserved

Tell the AI giants to stand together against killer robots The US Secretary of War is on a rampage. He’s trying to bully the world’s top AI companies to rip out their safety guardrails and "tailor" their models for Trump’s military. He wants to turn AI into a

Tell the AI giants to stand together against killer robots actions.eko.org/a/tell-the-a...

I'm commenting here as an expert: "JESUS LOL FUCK NO".

Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species.

And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.

This is not the AI we were promised | The Royal Society YouTube video by The Royal Society

(1/9) I love Mike Wooldridge's delivery of some of the examples I post here :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyL...
Maybe also a good time to clarify how I myself interpret these examples.

5/5 What I do see as the big challenges for the rest of the 21st century (all my grandchildren can be expected to live beyond the year 2100), are global warming, and rise of diseases due to vaccine deniers.

Stay calm. Love those around you. Be kind to everyone.

1/5 I am getting more and more emails from individuals directly to me expressing fear for their children from possibly physical actions from AI. They mention that my views seem balanced and ask me to respond to their words. The attached four skeets are a response to one such that I wrote today.

I think the poll options are the wrong question to be asking. The content of the paper may or may not be valid. But the hallucinated bibliography is in my view itself a problem, and the paper must be desk rejected on that basis.

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AAMAS 2026 | Accepted Papers - Research Track 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

The wait is over! 🎊

The AAMAS 2026 Accepted Research Track papers are now live!

🔗 View the full list of accepted research papers here:
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Join us in celebrating the hard work of our global research community!

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Me: I'd like to revisit our conversation last month about hiring a new CEO for our startup. We had a candidate who was very tall and had great hair, but some of the board was hesitating because he was a giraffe. You urged us to go ahead with the hire, pointing out the broad popularity of giraffes among people of all ages. Now, a month into his tenure as CEO, the giraffe has failed to make a single executive decision, and instead spends his time in the campus courtyard stripping the trees of leaves. The board is extremely disappointed, and asked me to request an explanation and a formal apology. ChatGPT said: Thank you for the update, though I’m genuinely sorry to hear how things have unfolded. In retrospect, my recommendation to proceed with the hire was based too heavily on superficial traits—charisma, universal appeal, and a commanding physical presence—and not enough on executive competency, decision-making aptitude, or opposable thumbs. While the candidate’s towering stature and enviable hair made a strong initial impression, I failed to adequately account for his species-specific limitations, particularly his lack of business acumen, human language fluency, and capacity for boardroom strategy beyond “find tree, eat leaves.”

New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv.
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...

We wish you happy new year, and we can't wait to meet you in Cyprus this year!

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Happy New Year! See you in Cyprus soon!

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Happy new year! (My brain hurts from reading this 😵‍💫)

Also: "Reviewers will not be allowed to use AI technology in generating or writing their reviews ...."

Absolutely.

The AAMAS policy includes "Authors are accountable for the accuracy of the work and for ensuring that there is no plagiarism. They must also ensure that all sources are appropriately cited"

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We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal

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Ban the Business Model, Not the Child - Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Ph.D. Australia’s new under-16 social media rules are now live. In plain terms, they function as a delay on having accounts: young people (and parents) aren’t penalized, but platforms must take “reasonable ...

Ban the Business Model, Not the Child.

Read these wise (research based) words from colleague @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social on the social media ban in Australia

@ascor.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social

www.jessicataylorpiotrowski.com/2025/12/11/b...

Bravo! 👏

Would it make sense to have sliding scale? Eg 2nd paper is $100, but the 6th paper is $1000, and the 11th $3000? This would disincentivise submitting LOTS of papers.

Oh, and is there some way of charging an extra amount for any AI slop submitted?

"In response to a query from the Guardian, Zhu said that he had supervised the 131 papers, which were “team endeavors” run by his company, Algoverse. The company charges $3,325 to high-school students and undergraduates for a selective 12-week online mentoring experience – which involves help submitting work to conferences. “At a minimum, I help review methodology and experimental design in proposals, and I read and comment on full paper drafts before submission,” he said, adding that projects on subjects such as linguistics, healthcare or education involved “principal investigators or mentors with relevant expertise”."

Researcher produces 100+ papers on "AI" in a year and what's worse than the shonky vibe scholarship and "slop flood" this represents is that he's doing it all as boss of an edtech company called Algoverse charging students $$thousands to do the actual work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

From a small, one-day event in 2023, to this top-speaker stacked two-day conference we got now. Really excited to see the programme of the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium to be held end of February 2026 published. Register now and see you in Wellington.