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		<title>AISB 2026 Symposium: Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science</title>
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<p><strong>1-2 July 2026</strong></p>
<p><strong>AISB 2026, University of Sussex, UK</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Keynote Speaker: </strong>Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex</p>
<p><strong>Day of celebration: </strong>life and work of Prof Margaret Boden, 30 June.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Attendance to the day of celebration is free for attendees of the AISB Convention.</em></p>
<p><strong>Registration page: </strong> <a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2026/">https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2026/</a> </p>
<p><strong>Symposium location:</strong>Future Technologies Lab</p>
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<h3>Symposium outline</h3>
<p>In this symposium we intend to tackle complementary issues related to the likelihood of a replication crisis in computer science and computational methods, and an emerging AI bubble on the other.&nbsp;</p>
<h4>The replication crisis</h4>
<p>The replication crisis has crossed multiple fields in science asking if results presented in published papers can be reproduced, repeated, and/or replicated. In their efforts to verify results various disciplines, including computer science, have already found that the answer for too many papers is &ldquo;no&rdquo; (Gundersen et al 2025, Cockburn et al 2020). In this symposium we look at the replication crisis as it pertains especially to computer science, whether within the discipline (cf. Cockburn et al 2020), or as applied to, or utilised in, other disciplines, such as computational modelling for neuroscience (Miłkowski et al 2018).&nbsp;</p>
<p>There is also uncertainty about the extent to which &lsquo;questionable research practices&rsquo; (QRPs) can be found in the above contexts. These can include manipulating data for statistically significant results (p-hacking), post hoc analysis to find statistically significant outcomes (p-fishing), or so as to present these as expected, i.e. &lsquo;Hypothesising After the Results are Known&rsquo; (HARKing) (Cockburn et al 2020). Meanwhile, there are also proposals to address QRPs in computer science research, for instance through replication or the use of pre-study registered reports that include hypotheses and methods etc (Brown et al 2022).</p>
<h4>AI bubbles</h4>
<p>It&rsquo;s clear that AI development is expanding substantially (Giattino et al 2023) , but the extent to which this growth is sustainable is unclear. Meanwhile, the possibility of this becoming another bubble, like those from the dot com boom and real estate, is clear (Carv&atilde;o 2025). A bubble is a vague concept that captures where a process or commodity is valued or hyped beyond its intrinsic worth, typically in unsustainable ways. If contemporary expectations currently dominating the AI field do turn out to be a bubble we can expect further expansion, and then collapse, typically causing damage in the process. The economic damage of a collapse is already estimated by US commentators to rival the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 1990 and the financial crash of 2008 (Allyn 2025, Casselman and Ember 2025, Yip 2025). In the symposium we look beyond the speculation of AI stocks at the promises and reality of AI capabilities and what the effects of the potential bubble are.</p>
<p>In addition to the above are epistemic bubbles, which form around new or &lsquo;popular&rsquo; ideas. &lsquo;Epistemic bubbles&rsquo; may include &lsquo;self-segregated&rsquo; networks of &lsquo;like-minded people&rsquo; whose members are &lsquo;liable to converge on and resist correction of false, misleading or unsupported claims&rsquo; (Sheeks 2023). These bubbles can in turn create &lsquo;social epistemic&rsquo; structures which are similar to echo chambers, &lsquo;in which other relevant voices have been actively discredited&rsquo; (Nguyen). In AI contexts, these epistemic bubbles might exclude voices who are critical of these technologies, or who doubt either its identity as AI, or its scope for positive impacts and change. Not least as &lsquo;AI&rsquo; as a term brings greater expectations, including financial, compared with describing the technology in terms of its components and capacities, e.g. as LLMs, RAGs, DNNs, transformers, models, etc. Bubbles can also be created through the use of AI itself, for instance due to its scope for personalisation on media platforms, and agreeableness in GenAI chatbots, such that views of users are neither challenged nor developed.</p>
<h4>References</h4>
<p>Allyn, B. (November 2025). Here's why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever. Published online at <em>NPR. </em>Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5615410/ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-revenue-bust-data-centers">https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5615410/ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-revenue-bust-data-centers</a></p>
<p>Brown, N. C., Marinus, E., &amp; Hubbard Cheuoua, A. (2022, August). Launching registered report replications in computer science education research. In <em>Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, </em>Volume 1, 309-322.</p>
<p>Carv&atilde;o, P. (August 2025). Is The AI Bubble Bursting? Lessons From The Dot-Com Era. Published online at <em>Forbes.</em>Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao/2025/08/21/is-the-ai-bubble-bursting-lessons-from-the-dot-com-era/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao/2025/08/21/is-the-ai-bubble-bursting-lessons-from-the-dot-com-era/</a></p>
<p>Casselman, B. &amp; Ember, S. (November 2025). The A.I. Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters? Published online at <em>NY Times. </em>Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/the-ai-boom-economy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/the-ai-boom-economy.html</a></p>
<p>Cockburn, A., Dragicevic, P., Besan&ccedil;on, L., &amp; Gutwin, C. (2020). Threats of a replication crisis in empirical computer science. <em>Communications of the ACM</em>, 63(8), 70-79.</p>
<p>Giattino, C., Mathieu, E., Samborska, V., &amp; Roser, M. (2023) Artificial Intelligence Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/artificial-intelligence"> 'https://ourworldindata.org/artificial-intelligence'</a></p>
<p>Gundersen, O.E., Cappelen, O., M&oslash;ln&aring;, M. and Nilsen, N.G. (2025). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Open Science in AI: A Replication Study. <em>Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence</em>. 39, 25 (Apr. 2025), 26211-26219. DOI:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i25.34818">https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i25.34818.</a></p>
<p>Miłkowski, M., Hensel, W. M., &amp; Hohol, M. (2018). Replicability or reproducibility? On the replication crisis in computational neuroscience and sharing only relevant detail. <em>Journal of computational neuroscience</em>, 45(3), 163-172.</p>
<p>Sheeks, M. (2023). The Myth of the Good Epistemic Bubble. <em>Episteme</em>, 20(3), 685&ndash;700. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2022.52">https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2022.52</a></p>
<p> Nguyen, C. Thi. (2020). Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles. <em>Episteme</em> 17 (2): 141&ndash;61.<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.32">https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.32</a>.</p>
<p>Yip J. (October 2025) Are we in an AI bubble? Here&rsquo;s what analysts and experts are saying Published online at cnbc.com. Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble.html</a></p>
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<h3>Submissions</h3>
<p>We invite papers from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Explainable AI, philosophy, behavioural sciences, psychology, social sciences, and those working with computational models, e.g. in finance.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>We welcome a broad variety of topics, including but not limited to:</strong></p>
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<li aria-level="1">Machine learning (e.g. modelling, AI)</li>
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<li aria-level="1">Explainable AI</li>
<li aria-level="1">Decision trees</li>
<li aria-level="1">Replication crisis</li>
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<h4>Example research questions:&nbsp;</h4>
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<li aria-level="1">How do computer science methods harm or help the replicability of research?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Is research in computer science replicable?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Does the name &lsquo;Artificial Intelligence&rsquo; have an effect on what is expected of AI?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Are current valuations (financial, social etc) of AI realistic?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Is there an AI bubble in science?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Related bubbles that might be relevant to these topics, e.g. is big data also a bubble?</li>
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<p><strong>Submission:</strong> Extended abstracts of 500 words (maximum, excluding references) to Easychair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibc2026">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibc2026</a></p>
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<td><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_3.pdf">Open Artifacts, Closed Research: How Shared Code Can Undermine Replicability</a></td>
<td>Adrian Gavornik, Katarína Marcinčinová, and Marek Havrila</td>
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<td><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_6.pdf">Bubbles, crises, and harms: the promises of GenAI</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_5.pdf">Different language games, different embeddings? How word embeddings could show language games differ in science</a></td>
<td>Kiona Bijker</td>
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<td><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_4.pdf">AI ethics is an epistemic bubble that must burst</a></td>
<td>Mary Lockwood</td>
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<h4>Session 1 abstracts</h4>
<p>    <strong><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_3.pdf">Open Artifacts, Closed Research: How Shared Code Can Undermine Replicability</a></strong><br />
    <em>Adrian Gavornik, Katarína Marcinčinová, and Marek Havrila</em><br />
    The rapid developments in AI have contributed to a significant increase in the pace and volume of research in computer science. This growth has been accompanied by evolving publication practices enabling faster dissemination of results, increasingly relying on preprints and code sharing (Peng, 2011; Zhou et al., 2025; Cavenaghi et al., 2023). Although these practices are commonly intended to enhance transparency and reproducibility, we argue that they may produce unintended effects and undermine replicability. While reproducibility is treated as the cornerstone of current computer science research, the more fundamental question is whether research results truly can be trusted. Furthermore, the described tension between reproducibility and replicability opens up broader questions about the trustworthiness of computer science research, particularly in the context of trustworthy AI. If such systems are understood as socio-technical systems, whose reliability depends on technical, organizational, and epistemic practices, then the trustworthiness of AI cannot be separated from the trustworthiness of the scientific practices through which these systems are produced and validated.</p>
<p>    We demonstrate how the re-use of code and evaluation methodologies in reproducibility studies facilitates the propagation of inaccuracies, including logical and implementation errors. We show these effects on a case study of a coherent line of five follow-up publications on multi-objective recommender systems (Xin Xin et al., 2025; Stamenkovic et. al., 2022; Paparella et al., 2023; Labarca Silva et al., 2024; Rajapakse and Jannach, 2025). We suggest that our observations are not just another example of questionable research practice or coincidental errors. Instead, they highlight structural vulnerabilities in current experimental practices that can be better understood in light of the two general tensions present in contemporary computer science research.</p>
<p>    First tension points to the intricate relationship between reproducibility and replicability (Plesser, 2018; Raff et al., 2025). While both contribute to the reliability of the research and reduce accidental errors, randomness, or methodological flaws, reproducibility involves re-running the original code and data, whereas replicability requires an independent reconstruction of the model or method. When artifacts such as code are not shared, a study is not reproducible; however, it can still be replicable. Thus, reproducibility is not a prerequisite for replication. In this case study, we demonstrate that the availability of easy-to-use artifacts may, however, discourage genuine replication. Code reuse provides real benefits in terms of time and resource savings, while simultaneously creating an illusory assurance that errors and mistakes can be prevented by refraining from implementing the method from scratch.</p>
<p>    Second, in the context of broader discussions on the role of reproducibility in scientific research as such (Fidler and Wilcox, 2026), we suggest that practices intended to promote transparency, such as shared code, datasets, and evaluation pipelines, can function as Latourian black-box mechanisms. As Latour (1987) argues in his laboratory studies on scientific practices, black-boxing occurs when a system works reliably enough that its internal assumptions are no longer questioned. In this sense, once the artifacts, such as shared code, produce seemingly stable and publishable outputs, their internal assumptions are no longer questioned and verified. We observed that an agreement and stabilized knowledge emerged not from independent validation, but from alignment with the same erroneous artifact. This creates an illusion of improved capabilities of multistakeholder recommender systems and scientific progress in the field as such.</p>
<p>    The discussed tensions become especially relevant in the context of Trustworthy AI, where principles such as reliability, robustness, transparency, or accountability are often emphasized (see existing documents, such as the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI by European Commission & Directorate-General for Communications Networks, 2019; Fjeld et al., 2020). However, they often focus on the AI systems themselves, paying less attention to the scientific practices through which such systems are developed and evaluated. In other words, the trustworthiness of AI cannot be meaningfully separated from the trustworthiness of the research practices that produce it. What is required is more than just improving algorithmic or evaluation metrics, but also critically examining the practices and norms of contemporary computer science research, including code reuse, reproducibility, and experimental validation.</p>
<p>    <strong><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_6.pdf">Bubbles, crises, and harms: the promises of GenAI</a></strong><br />
    <em>Y J Erden</em><br />
    This paper examines the rise of GenAI in the context of the replication crisis and suggests we are creating substantial harms and ignoring obvious risks. The ‘replication crisis’, which largely began in psychology, largely concerns difficulties reproducing or replicating a scientific study (Ioannidis 2005; Fanelli 2009; Ritchie 2020). These problems are not restricted to psychology however, and some have suggested there could be similar problems in empirical computer science (Cockburn et al. 2020).</p>
<p>    Meanwhile the now familiar cycle of AI hype is once again peaking, with media outlets describing an ‘AI bubble’ comparable with the dot.com ‘boom and bust’ of the 1990s and 2000s (BBC, Guardian). This present bubble is largely driven by Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) that relies on Large Language Models (LLMs), and attracts extensive funding as well as other resources (NY Times). These complex models are said to ‘generate high-quality, human-like material’, and in so doing produce ‘previously unseen synthetic content, in any form and to support any task’ (García-Peñalvo & Vázquez-Ingelmo 2023).</p>
<p>    Yet these grand expectations are tempered by reports of fabrication, hallucination (LaGrandeur 2024), and of ‘accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities’ (Shojaee et al. 2025). Alongside which are questions about the ‘black box’ nature of the models, a lack of transparency about methods and data, plus difficulty in establishing where and how failure occurs (Barassi 2024). Despite this, we see a rise in the use of GenAI across diverse sectors. There is, for example, enthusiasm for these technologies in spheres where risks to livelihoods are nevertheless high, such as in education (Lee and Low 2024), human resources (Nyberg et al. 2025), and the arts (Epstein 2023).</p>
<p>    This paper addresses these issues by first drawing comparisons to the development of GenAI with the replication crisis in other disciplines. In so doing, the paper offers reasons to treat GenAI with significantly more scepticism, not only about its scope, but also regarding methodological validity, the foundations for the models, and the (training) data on which they rely. Next the paper examines case studies in contexts where there is considerable scope for harm, both direct and indirect, such as in contexts of mental health care (Solaiman 2024) and the arts (Jiang 2023). Finally, the paper argues that not only is GenAI found wanting practically, ethically and socially, it remains to be seen whether it even meets the criteria to be considered an ‘artificial intelligence’. With these arguments, the paper concludes that GenAI has multiple failures in definition, form, content, and application. Thus, if we want to make good use of these technologies, we need to do so with our eyes firmly open to their limitations.</p>
<h4>Session 2 abstracts</h4>
<p>    <strong><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_5.pdf">Different language games, different embeddings? How word embeddings could show language games differ in science</a></strong><br />
    <em>Kiona Bijker</em><br />
    This research will cover theory behind using natural language processing (NLP) word embedding methods to detect differences in language games played in science. Wittgenstein uses ’language games’ to explain how words gain meaning through use. Among a group of people, usage of a word often follows certain, unwritten, rules. These rules can differ from those in another group, like house rules for a card game which vary based on the group playing and where they are. At my friend’s house playing a 10 in a game of Mau-Mau means everyone hands their cards to the person to their left. Meanwhile, at my aunt’s house a 10 means the current player may play another card. The difference in word usage can lead to a difference in meaning between those groups (§65-69 Wittgenstein 1989). For example, to one group of friends ’going to the city’ means they meet up and travel together, where another group meets at a cafe in the city. Both groups on their own know what they mean, but if someone from the first group joins someone from the second they may both think they were stood up. In science different disciplines can play their own language games. Similar to the friend groups, this can cause confusion when collaborating across disciplines. Unlike the friend groups, the language games of disciplines often play out in published articles. This can cause misunderstandings when someone reads across different disciplines and make the articles outside their own discipline less accessible (Ellaway 2021).</p>
<p>    To those familiar with NLP ’meaning through use’ may already sound similar to the idea behind word embeddings. Word embeddings are mathematical representations of how a word is used in text. The exact link between the embedding and the word’s use depends on the method, but is often based on which words occur around the embedded term. While the embeddings of words may not cover the entire ’context’ of a language game (Skelac and Jandri´c 2020) I argue they can be used to detect differences between language games of different groups. In this case word embeddings can be used to detect differences between disciplines’ language games around that word. This work therefore offers a new view of embedding distance to show differences between language games. Distance between group’s word embeddings can then be used to help those crossing between the language games know which words may lead to miscommunications</p>
<p>    <strong><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABC-2026_paper_4.pdf">AI ethics is an epistemic bubble that must burst</a></strong><br />
    <em>Mary Lockwood</em><br />
    AI ethics promises fairness, accountability, and transparency, yet cannot deliver them. Contemporary AI ethics is an epistemic bubble in which the conditions required to realise these goals do not exist within its own structure. Its goals are admirable, but those it claims to protect have little meaningful role in defining the systems and criteria by which ethical compliance is determined (Birhane et al., 2022). Similar self-reinforcing tendencies have been identified in technological discourse and innovation-driven systems more broadly (Vinsel and Russell, 2020; Gertz, 2024). AI ethics is therefore asking the wrong question. Rather than pursuing impossible neutrality, it must interrogate whose knowledge builds systems and whose is excluded.</p>
<p>    This paper introduces Equity Bias to explain how institutional AI ethics frameworks reproduce exclusion. It occurs through the selective incorporation of knowledge compatible with existing power structures, whilst marginalising forms of knowledge that challenge them. It provides a philosophical and practical framework for identifying how epistemic exclusion is embedded across the AI development lifecycle. It also shows how ethical governance processes can appear corrective whilst remaining structurally reinforcing.</p>
<p>    The consequences are measurable. Hundreds of AI ethics guidelines now exist globally (Corrêa et al., 2023), yet automated decision-making in areas such as housing continues to produce discriminatory outcomes (Cheng et al., 2024). Those affected often have little meaningful recourse (Alon-Barkat et al., 2025). Harm persists not despite the ethics apparatus, but beneath its cover. The bubble not only fails but blocks the conditions under which genuine protection is possible.</p>
<p>    Responses to ethical failures often follow a pattern which includes more guidelines and continued consultation with the same expert communities (Maclure and Morin-Martel, 2025). Equity Bias, when applied to AI ethics, reveals this pattern as epistemic replication: the reproduction of the same epistemic commitments regardless of outcome or harm. This invites comparison with bioethics, a field that has similarly grappled with questions of epistemic authority and representation (Hofmann, 2023).</p>
<p>    Applied recursively, Equity Bias makes visible what the epistemic bubble conceals. Internal reform cannot resolve exclusions produced by the field’s own structures. Bursting the bubble requires creating conditions in which multiple knowledge systems can contest and inform both AI development and the ethics field itself. The question is not whether AI ethics must change, but who gets to determine what it changes into.</p></div>
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<p><strong>1-2 July 2026</strong></p>
<p><strong>AISB 2026, University of Sussex, UK, </strong><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/"><strong>https://aisb.org.uk/</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>Keynote Speaker: </strong>Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex</p>
<p><strong>Day of celebration: </strong>life and work of Prof Margaret Boden, 30 June.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Attendance at the day of celebration is free for attendees of the AISB Convention.&nbsp;</em></p>
<p><strong>Symposium outline</strong></p>
<p>In this symposium we intend to tackle complementary issues related to the likelihood of a replication crisis in computer science and computational methods, and an emerging AI bubble.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Symposium website: </strong><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype-promise-and-speculation/#Symposium_outline">https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype-promise-and-speculation</a></p>
<p><strong>Submission:</strong> Extended abstracts of 500 words (maximum, excluding references) to Easychair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibc2026">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibc2026</a></p>
<p><strong>Deadline: </strong>23 March 2026</p>
<p><strong>OVERVIEW:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The replication crisis</em></strong></p>
<p>The replication crisis has crossed multiple fields in science asking if results presented in published papers can be reproduced, repeated, and/or replicated. In their efforts to verify results various disciplines, including computer science, have already found that the answer for too many papers is &ldquo;no&rdquo; (Gundersen et al 2025, Cockburn et al 2020). In this symposium we look at the replication crisis as it pertains especially to computer science, whether within the discipline (cf. Cockburn et al 2020), or as applied to, or utilised in, other disciplines, such as computational modelling for neuroscience (Miłkowski et al 2018). There is also uncertainty about the extent to which &lsquo;questionable research practices&rsquo; (QRPs) can be found in the above contexts. These can include manipulating data for statistically significant results (p-hacking), post hoc analysis to find statistically significant outcomes (p-fishing), or to present these as expected, i.e. &lsquo;Hypothesising After the Results are Known&rsquo; (HARKing) (Cockburn et al 2020). Meanwhile, there are also proposals to address QRPs in computer science research, for instance through replication or the use of pre-study registered reports that include hypotheses and methods etc (Brown et al 2022).</p>
<p><strong>AI bubbles</strong></p>
<p>It&rsquo;s clear that AI development is expanding substantially (Giattino et al 2023) , but the extent to which this growth is sustainable is unclear. Meanwhile, the possibility of this becoming another bubble, like those from the dot com boom and real estate, is clear (Carv&atilde;o 2025). A bubble is a vague concept that captures where a process or commodity is valued or hyped beyond its intrinsic worth, typically in unsustainable ways. If contemporary expectations currently dominating the AI field do turn out to be a bubble we can expect further expansion, and then collapse, typically causing damage in the process. The economic damage of a collapse is already estimated by US commentators to rival the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 1990 and the financial crash of 2008 (Allyn 2025, Casselman and Ember 2025, Yip 2025). In the symposium we look beyond the speculation of AI stocks at the promises and reality of AI capabilities and what the effects of the potential bubble are. In addition to the above are epistemic bubbles, which form around new or &lsquo;popular&rsquo; ideas. &lsquo;Epistemic bubbles&rsquo; may include &lsquo;self-segregated&rsquo; networks of &lsquo;like-minded people&rsquo; whose members are &lsquo;liable to converge on and resist correction of false, misleading or unsupported claims&rsquo; (Sheeks 2023). These bubbles can in turn create &lsquo;social epistemic&rsquo; structures which are similar to echo chambers, &lsquo;in which other relevant voices have been actively discredited&rsquo; (Nguyen 2020). In AI contexts, these epistemic bubbles might exclude voices who are critical of these technologies, or who doubt either its identity as AI, or its scope for positive impacts and change. Not least as &lsquo;AI&rsquo; as a term brings greater expectations, including financial, compared with describing the technology in terms of its components and capacities, e.g. as LLMs, RAGs, DNNs, transformers, models, etc. Epistemic bubbles can also be created through the use of AI itself, for instance due to its scope for personalisation on media platforms, and agreeableness in GenAI chatbots, such that views of users are neither challenged nor developed.</p>
<p><strong>TOPICS OF INTEREST&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>We invite papers from a wide range of disciplines, including:</strong> computer science, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Explainable AI, philosophy, behavioural sciences, psychology, social sciences, and those working with computational models, e.g. in finance.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>We welcome a broad variety of topics, including but not limited to:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Machine learning (e.g. modelling, AI)</li>
<li>Large language models</li>
<li>Neural networks</li>
<li>Deep learning</li>
<li>Explainable AI</li>
<li>Decision trees</li>
<li>Replication crisis</li>
<li>AI bubble(s)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Example research questions:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>What kinds of impacts are computational methods having on science, e.g. machine learning methods, statistical analysis?</li>
<li>How do computer science methods harm or help the replicability of research?</li>
<li>Is research in computer science replicable?</li>
<li>Does the name &lsquo;Artificial Intelligence&rsquo; have an effect on what is expected of AI?</li>
<li>Are current valuations (financial, social etc) of AI realistic?</li>
<li>Is there an AI bubble in science?</li>
<li>Related bubbles that might be relevant to these topics, e.g. is big data also a bubble?</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION DETAILS&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Submission:</strong> Extended abstracts of 500 words (maximum, excluding references) to Easychair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibc2026">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibc2026</a></p>
<p><strong>Deadlines:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Abstract submission deadline: 23 March 2026</li>
<li aria-level="1">Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions: 17 April 2026</li>
<li aria-level="1">Final versions of accepted abstracts: 15 May 2026</li>
<li aria-level="1">Conference: 1 to 2 July 2026 [symposium date tbc]  </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS:&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Organising Committee</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Y. J. Erden (University of Twente) y.j.erden@utwente.nl</li>
<li>Kiona Bijker (University of Twente) k.bijker@student.utwente.nl</li>
<li>Katleen Gabriels (Maastricht University) k.gabriels@maastrichtuniversity.nl</li>
<li>Martin Lentschat (Universit&eacute; Toulouse) martin.lentschat@univ-tlse2.fr&nbsp;</li>
<li>Doina Bucur (University of Twente) d.bucur@utwente.nl</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Programme Committee&nbsp;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Maren Behrensen (Philosophy, University of Twente)</li>
<li>Marcus Gerhold (Computer Science, University of Twente)</li>
<li>Susannah E. Glickman (History, Stony Brook University)</li>
<li>Adam Henschke (Philosophy, University of Twente)</li>
<li>Saana Jukola (Philosophy, University of Twente)</li>
<li>Miles MacLeod (Philosophy, University of Twente)</li>
<li>Cyrus C. M. Mody (STS, Maastricht University)</li>
<li>Yagmur Ozturk (Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (LIG), Universit&eacute; Grenoble Alpes)</li>
<li>Stephen Rainey (Philosophy, TU Delft)</li>
<li>Danielle Shanley (Philosophy, Maastricht Univertisy)</li>
<li>Nicola Strisciuglio (Computer Science, University of Twente)</li>
<li>Rob Wortham (Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>About the AISB</strong>: <a href="https://aisb.org.uk/"><strong>https://aisb.org.uk/</strong></a></p>
<p>The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) is the largest Artificial Intelligence Society in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1964, the society has an international membership from academia and industry, with a serious interest in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and related areas. It is a member of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. The AISB Convention typically consists of a set of co-located symposia on a wide-range of topics in AI and the simulation of behaviour; there are often also a number of plenary lectures, and other events such as public engagement sessions, and historical/artistic exhibitions. The symposium model allows for the community to decide what the current topics of interest are and the direction that the field is heading. The event is central to the AISB and its mandate of promoting AI research, and in providing early career researchers and students a supportive environment in which to discuss their research.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>References</strong></p>
<p>Allyn, B. (November 2025). Here's why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever. Published online at <em>NPR. </em>Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5615410/ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-revenue-bust-data-centers">https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5615410/ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-revenue-bust-data-centers</a></p>
<p>Brown, N. C., Marinus, E., &amp; Hubbard Cheuoua, A. (2022, August). Launching registered report replications in computer science education research. In <em>Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, </em>Volume 1, 309-322.</p>
<p>Carv&atilde;o, P. (August 2025). Is The AI Bubble Bursting? Lessons From The Dot-Com Era. Published online at <em>Forbes.</em>Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao/2025/08/21/is-the-ai-bubble-bursting-lessons-from-the-dot-com-era/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao/2025/08/21/is-the-ai-bubble-bursting-lessons-from-the-dot-com-era/</a></p>
<p>Casselman, B. &amp; Ember, S. (November 2025). The A.I. Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters? Published online at <em>NY Times. </em>Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/the-ai-boom-economy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/the-ai-boom-economy.html</a></p>
<p>Cockburn, A., Dragicevic, P., Besan&ccedil;on, L., &amp; Gutwin, C. (2020). Threats of a replication crisis in empirical computer science. <em>Communications of the ACM</em>, 63(8), 70-79.</p>
<p>Giattino, C., Mathieu, E., Samborska, V., &amp; Roser, M. (2023) Artificial Intelligence Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/artificial-intelligence">'https://ourworldindata.org/artificial-intelligence'</a></p>
<p>Gundersen, O.E., Cappelen, O., M&oslash;ln&aring;, M. and Nilsen, N.G. 2025. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Open Science in AI: A Replication Study. <em>Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence</em>. 39, 25 (Apr. 2025), 26211-26219. DOI:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i25.34818.">https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i25.34818.</a></p>
<p>Miłkowski, M., Hensel, W. M., &amp; Hohol, M. (2018). Replicability or reproducibility? On the replication crisis in computational neuroscience and sharing only relevant detail. <em>Journal of computational neuroscience</em>, 45(3), 163-172.</p>
<p>Sheeks, M. (2023). The Myth of the Good Epistemic Bubble. <em>Episteme</em>, 20(3), 685&ndash;700. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2022.52">https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2022.52</a></p>
<p>Nguyen, C. Thi. 2020. &ldquo;ECHO CHAMBERS AND EPISTEMIC BUBBLES.&rdquo; <em>Episteme</em> 17 (2): 141&ndash;61.<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.32">https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.32</a>.</p>
<p>Yip J. (October 2025) Are we in an AI bubble? Here&rsquo;s what analysts and experts are saying Published online at cnbc.com. Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble.html</a>&nbsp;</p>
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									<h2>CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS: AISB 2026, University of Sussex</h2>
<strong>DEADLINE:</strong> November 30, 2025</p>
<p>Contact: Simon Bowes <a href="mailto:S.C.Bowes@sussex.ac.uk" target="_blank">S.C.Bowes@sussex.ac.uk</a> </p>
<p>AISB 2026 will be held at the University of Sussex on the 1st-2nd July. Further information on arrangements for the convention will be made available as information becomes available. </p>
<p><strong>Keynote Speaker:</strong> <a href="https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p22981-anil-seth" target="_blank">Anil Seth</a></p>
The AISB 2026 convention will follow the same overall structure as previous
conventions, namely a set of co-located symposia, and we are seeking proposals for these symposia. Typical symposia last for one or two days, and can include any type of event of academic benefit: talks, posters, panels, discussions, demonstrations, outreach sessions, etc. Proposals for Symposia are welcomed in all areas of AI and cognitive science. Some suggested areas are shown below, although any proposal in the field of AI
or cognitive science will be welcomed:<p>
<ul>
<li>AI in Education</li>
<li>Agency &amp; AI</li>
<li>Art &amp; AI</li>
<li>Cognitive &amp; Computational Neuroscience</li>
<li>Computational theory of mind</li>
<li>Computational Intelligence</li>
<li>Consciousness</li>
<li>Embodiment and AI</li>
<li>Ethics of AI</li>
<li>Human and Machine Creativity</li>
<li>Hybrid Human-AI</li>
<li>Knowledge Representation</li>
<li>Machine Learning</li>
<li>Robotics</li>
<li>Bio-inspired approaches</li>
<li>Simulation of Human and Animal Behaviour</li>
<li>The Turing Test and Philosophical Foundations of AI</li>
</ul> 
<h3>Proposing a Symposium</h3>
Each symposium is organized by its own programme committee. The committee
proposes the symposium, defines the area(s) and structure for it, issues calls
for abstracts/papers etc., manages the process of selecting submitted papers
for inclusion, and compiles an electronic file for inclusion in the convention proceedings.
<p>
<p>Proposers are welcome to submit or be involved with more than one proposal. Proposers need not already be members the AISB and will not be required to become members. They will of course be encouraged to join!</p>
<strong>Deadline for symposium proposals:</strong> 30th November 2025<br>
<strong>Notification of acceptance:</strong> 15th December 2025</h2>
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<strong>Submissions should consist of the following:</strong></p>
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<li>A title.</li>
<li>A 300–1000-word description of the scope of the symposium, and its relevance
to the convention along with the nature of the academic events (talks, posters,
panels, demonstrations, etc.).</li>
<li>Whether the symposium is intended as a sequel to a symposium at a previous
AISB conference.</li>
<li>An indication of whether submissions will be by abstract, extended abstract,
or full paper.</li>
<li>Your preferences about the intended length of the symposium as a number of
days (half a day, one day or two days), together with a brief justification.</li>
<li>A description (up to 500 words) of any experience you have in organization of
academic research meetings (please note that it is not a requirement that you
have such experience).</li>
<li>Names and affiliations of any invited speakers that you may have in mind for
the symposium.</li>
<li>Your names and full contact details, together with, if possible, names and
workplaces of the members of a preliminary, partial programme committee.</li>
</ul>

Please e-mail your completed proposal to Simon Bowes: <a href="mailto:S.C.Bowes@sussex.ac.uk" target="_blank">S.C.Bowes@sussex.ac.uk</a>  								</div>
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									<h2>1-3 July 2025, University of Twente, NL</h2>
<h3>Latest Updates</h3>
<strong>Registration</strong> for IACAP-AISB-25 is now open. Here is the link for registration system: <a href="https://2025.tickets.iacapconf.org/" target="_blank">https://2025.tickets.iacapconf.org/</a>
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<strong>Further information</strong> on the preliminary programme will be communicated and published on the conference website: <a href="https://iacapconf.org/" target="_blank">https://iacapconf.org/</a> 
<p> 
<strong>For practical information</strong> including accommodation please visit here: <a href="https://iacapconf.org/pages/practical.html" target="_blank">https://iacapconf.org/pages/practical.html</a>
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Please note that there is an <strong>exciting free workshop</strong> with reception co-organised with, and sponsored by, 4TU.ethics on the Monday before the conference. Places are limited. More information is available on the conference and registration websites.

<h3>Call for Abstracts</h3>
The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will host a joint conference in July 2025. Please see below for joint CFA.<p>
<br>
<strong>Conference dates:</strong> July 1-3 <br>
<strong>Conference website:</strong> <a href="https://iacapconf.org/" target="_blank">https://iacapconf.org/</a><br>
<strong>Host Organisation Websites:</strong><br>
<a href="http://IACAP.org" target="_blank">IACAP.org</a><br>
<a href="http://AISB.org.uk" target="_blank">AISB.org.uk</a><br>
<strong>Conference location:</strong> Enschede, NL.<br>
<strong>Conference host:</strong> University of Twente
<H3>Keynote Speakers</h3>
AISB Keynote &#8211; Philip Brey<br>
IACAP Covey Award Address – To be announced soon. Nominations are closed.<br>
IACAP Simon Award Address – To be announced soon. Nominations are closed.<br>
<h3>Calls for Symposia Contributions (still open)</h3>
If you consider submitting a paper for a symposium at IACAP/AISB, each symposium has its own submission format, specifications and timeline. Here are the symposia that are open for submissions:<p>

<ul>
<li>Symposium and Edited Volume: <a href="https://iacapconf.org/2025symposia/teachingAI" target="_blank">Teaching With and About AI using Engagement Philosophy and Case Studies</a>. Deadline: 28 February 2025.</li>
<li>Symposium and Proceedings: <a href="https://alignment.udk.ai/" target="_blank">Moral and Legal AI Alignment</a>. Deadline (extended): 15 March 2025.</li>
<li>Symposium: AI and Animals: Ethical Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Non-humans. Deadline: 14 February 2025 – submissions closed.</li>
<li>Symposium: <a href="https://iacapconf.org/2025symposia/reimaginingAI" target="_blank">Reimagining AI Agents: Artificial, Angelic, or Adversarial Intelligences?</a>. Deadline (extended): 28 March 2025.</li>
<li>Symposium: <a href="https://iacapconf.org/2025symposia/justice-medAI" target="_blank">Bridging Justice and Meaningful Human Control in Medical AI</a>. Deadline (extended): 15 March 2025.</li>
<li>Symposium: <a href="https://genai-human-relationship.weebly.com/symposium.html" target="_blank">Generative Companionship in the Digital Age: On Human-AI Relationships and the Ethical Landscape Surrounding Artificial Others</a>. Deadline: 15 March 2025.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Accepted Symposia in closed format (no call for contributions)</h3>
<ul>
<li>Advancing Debates on the Epistemology of Medical AI, with Juan M. Durán, Emanuele Ratti, Emma-Jane Spencer and Chirag Arora</li>
<li>The Epistemic Risks of AI Integration, with Ian Robertson, Sascha Fink, Hadeel Naeem and Brandon Ashby</li>
<li>Values and AI Systems, with Vincent C. Müller, Max Hellrigel-Holderbaum, Ibifuro Robert Jaja and Eleonora Catena</li>
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<h3>Call for Abstracts and Symposia Proposals (all closed)</h3>
The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) has a long-lasting tradition of promoting philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of computing as it relates to philosophy. IACAP’s members have contributed to shaping the philosophical (both theoretical and applied) debate about computing, information technologies, and artificial intelligence.<p>
<br>
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) is the largest Artificial Intelligence Society in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1964, the society has an international membership from academia and industry, with a serious interest in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and related areas. It is a member of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.<p>

Our joint 2025 annual meeting will gather philosophers, ethicists, roboticists, and computer scientists and engineers interested topics that include:
<ul>
<li>Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning</li>
<li>Ethics, Philosophy, and Societal Impact of AI and Computing</li>
<li>Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Human-Machine Interaction</li>
<li>Cognitive Science and Computational Models of Mind and Behavior</li>
<li>Embodied, Ecological, and Distributed Cognition</li>
<li>Consciousness, Emotions, and Affective Computing</li>
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We welcome submissions of various kinds:<p>
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<li><a href="https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2025/cfp?submission_type=4821-symposium" target="_blank">Symposia</a> – will typically run one or two full days. Successful applicants will issue their own CfPs and organise reviews</li>
<li><a href="https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2025/cfp?submission_type=4820-individual-paper" target="_blank">Individual papers</a> – typically as 30-minute talks (including Q&#038;A)</li>
<li><a href="https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2025/cfp?submission_type=4822-poster" target="_blank">Poster presentations</a> – either submitted as such or as alternative format for individual papers</li>
<li><a href="https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2025/cfp?submission_type=4957-workshop" target="_blank">Workshops</a> – more open, interactive format, typically as 90-minute sessions</li>
</ul>
Authors of papers are free to decide whether they submit their contributions to one of the accepted symposia or individually – depending on topical fit.<p>
Depending on format, submissions may be published in proceedings either as extended abstracts or as full papers.

<h3>Important Dates</h3>
<ul>
<li>Symposia Proposals due date (extended, was December 1): January 15, 2025.</li>
<li>Notification of acceptance for Symposia proposals: December 9, 2024 for all submissions sent before December 1, all others January 30, 2025.</li>
<li>Extended Abstracts (approx. 1000 words) for individual Presentations, Posters, and Workshops independent of Symposia, due date (extended, was December 20): January 15, 2025.</li>
<li>Notification of acceptance for Presentations, Posters, Workshops: March 31, 2025.</li>
<li>Conference registration opens: April 1, 2025. (For individual papers, posters, and workshops: In case you need a visa, please note this with your submission so that we can facilitate an early review.)</li>
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<h3>Join the Community</h3>
For updates on IACAP conferences and to be part of the conversation with other attendees, you can join:
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<li>Our <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/iacapworkspace/shared_invite/zt-1qjs05kaa-BecKu_EZnBrPLUky0XV9xg" target="_blank">Slack channel here</a></li>
<li>Our <a href="https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/iacap-announce" target="_blank">Mailing List here</a> (no book or paper announcements)</li>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>We are delighted to announce that Royal Bank of Canada have kindly agreed to support the AISB Convention 2025. RBC are a long time supporter of the AISB Convention and we are grateful for their support again this year. AISB 2025 takes place on 14th &#8211; 16th January 2025 at UWE, Bristol. Places are still [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>We are delighted to announce that Royal Bank of Canada have kindly agreed to support the AISB Convention 2025. RBC are a long time supporter of the AISB Convention and we are grateful for their support again this year.</p>
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<p>AISB 2025 takes place on 14th &#8211; 16th January 2025 at UWE, Bristol. Places are still available for registration online. Full details of the convention and registration options are available <a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/">here</a>.</p>
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									<p>As part of the AISB-2025 Annual Convention 2025 to be held at the  University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, 14-16 January 2025<br><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/">https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/</a><br>The convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)<br><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/">https://aisb.org.uk/</a><br></p>
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OVERVIEW</h3>
<p>This track accommodates AI research that does not align with any of the other special tracks.<br></p>
<h3>
TOPICS OF INTEREST</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Agents and multi-agent systems</li>
<li>
Agent-based social simulation</li>
<li>
Verification of AI systems</li>
<li>
Combining learning and reasoning</li>
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Argumentation</li>
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AI &amp; cyber security</li>
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Natural language processing</li>
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Knowledge representation</li>
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<h3>
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION DETAILS</h3>
<p>Submissions may be full papers or extended abstracts and should be sent to steve.battle@uwe.ac.uk with AISB GENERAL TRACK in the subject line.<br>We request that submitted papers are limited to eight pages, and extended abstracts are limited to 500-800 words. Each paper or abstract will receive at least two reviews. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the AISB Convention, with the proviso that at least ONE author attends the symposium, in person, to present the paper and participate in general symposium activities.<br></p>
<h3>
IMPORTANT DATES</h3>
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Extended abstract submission deadline: <strong>Extended to December 1, 2024</strong></li>
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Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions: December 9, 2024</li>
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Final versions of accepted papers (Camera ready copy): January 7, 2025</li>
<li>
Convention: 14-16 January 2025</li>
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</h3>
<p>Please note that there will be separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the convention. Delegates will either receive a memory stick containing the proceedings of all the symposia, or this content will be available online. In previous years there have been awards for the best student paper, and limited student bursaries. These details will be circulated as and when they become available. Authors of a selection of the best papers may be invited to submit an extended version of the work to a journal special issue.<br></p>
<h3>SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS</h3>
<p>SYMPOSIUM CHAIR: Dr Steve Battle, School of Computing and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England (UWE), Frenchay Campus, Bristol, UK.<br>steve.battle@uwe.ac.uk; <a href="http://go.uwe.ac.uk/battle">http://go.uwe.ac.uk/battle</a><br>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Ryan Fellows, Dr Steve Battle FCybs</p>								</div>
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									<p>As part of the AISB-2025 Annual Convention 2025 to be held at the  University of the West of England, Bristol, 14-16 January 2025<br><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/">https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/</a><br>The convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)<br><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/">https://aisb.org.uk/</a></p>
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<h3>OVERVIEW</h3>
<p>Cybernetics is a multidisciplinary field that studies systems of communication, control, and feedback in both living organisms and machines. It is primarily concerned with how systems regulate themselves, maintain stability, and adapt to changes by the use of feedback loops. Cybernetics has been applied across many domains, including biology, engineering, and social systems, and its foundational concepts have significantly influenced artificial intelligence, and robotics. Cybernetics provides the theoretical framework for designing robots that can process information, learn from their environment, and adapt their behaviour. Robotics, in turn, applies these principles to create machines capable of performing complex tasks with varying degrees of autonomy, often mimicking biological systems.</p>
<h3>TOPICS OF INTEREST</h3>
<ul>
<li>Cybernetics and its applications</li>
<li>Cognitive Robotics</li>
<li>Robot Ethics</li>
<li>Enactivism and Embodied Cognition</li>
<li>Robotics, Perception and Art</li>
<li>Sensorimotor Theory</li>
<li>Robot Language and Communication</li>
<li>Artificial Life and Cellular Automata</li>
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<h3>SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION DETAILS</h3>
<p>Submissions may be full papers or extended abstracts and should be sent to steve.battle@uwe.ac.uk with AISB CYBERNETICS AND ROBOTICS in the subject line.<br>We request that submitted papers are limited to eight pages, and extended abstracts are limited to 500-800 words. Each paper or abstract will receive at least two reviews. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the AISB Convention, with the proviso that at least ONE author attends the symposium, in person, to present the paper and participate in general symposium activities.</p>
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IMPORTANT DATES</h3>
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<li>Extended abstract submission deadline: <strong>Extended to December 1</strong>, 2024</li>
<li>Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions: December 9, 2024</li>
<li>Final versions of accepted papers (Camera ready copy): January 7, 2025</li>
<li>Convention: 14-16 January 2025</li>
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</h3>
<p>Please note that there will be separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the convention. Delegates will either receive a memory stick containing the proceedings of all the symposia, or this content will be available online. In previous years there have been awards for the best student paper, and limited student bursaries. These details will be circulated as and when they become available. Authors of a selection of the best papers may be invited to submit an extended version of the work to a journal special issue.<br></p>
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SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS</h3>
<p>SYMPOSIUM CHAIR: Dr Steve Battle, School of Computing and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England (UWE), Frenchay Campus, Bristol, UK.<br>steve.battle@uwe.ac.uk; ; <a href="http://go.uwe.ac.uk/battle">http://go.uwe.ac.uk/battle</a><br>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:&nbsp;Prof Martin Smith CEng CPhys FIET FInstP FRSA FRAS FInst LM FRInst SMIEEE FCybS,&nbsp;<span style="color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;">Dr Steve Battle FCybs</span></p>								</div>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>AISB Convention 2025 – CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS priority deadline: 2 August 2024 regular deadline: 30 August 2024 14-16 January 2025, University of the West of England UWE, Bristol, UK https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/ The society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (the AISB) annual convention will be held at UWE Bristol, UK [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><strong>priority deadline:</strong> 2 August 2024<br />
<strong>regular deadline:</strong> 30 August 2024</p>
<p><strong>14-16 January 2025, University of the West of England UWE, Bristol, UK</strong><br />
<a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/">https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-convention-2025-non-members/</a></a></p>
<p>The society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (the AISB) annual convention will be held at UWE Bristol, UK on 14-16 January 2025. The convention will follow the same overall structure as previous conventions, namely a set of co-located, parallel symposia, as well as invited and plenary lectures and sessions. We are currently seeking proposals for these symposia. Typical symposia last for one or two days, and can include any type of event of academic benefit: talks, posters, panels, discussions, demonstrations, outreach sessions, etc. Proposals to run symposia are welcomed across all areas of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, broadly understood. This includes interdisciplinary topics rooted in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. </p>
<p>Possible themes are listed below (not an exhaustive list):</p>
<ul>
<li>Knowledge Representation</li>
<li>Discourse and Dialogue</li>
<li>Natural Language Processing</li>
<li>Computational Intelligence</li>
<li>Computational Theory of Mind</li>
<li>Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence</li>
<li>Consciousness and Machine Consciousness</li>
<li>Human and Machine Creativity</li>
<li>Simulation of Human and Animal Behaviour</li>
<li>Neural Networks and Machine Learning</li>
<li>Computational Neuroscience</li>
<li>Robotics and Robot Ethics</li>
<li>Epigenetic and Developmental Robotics</li>
<li>Autonomous Agents and Agent Based Computing</li>
<li>Enactivism</li>
<li>Embodied Cognition</li>
<li>Ecological Cognition</li>
<li>Embedded [Social] Cognition</li>
<li>Extended Cognition</li>
<li>Affective Intelligence and Behaviour</li>
<li>Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction</li>
<li>Style in Text; Textual Forensics</li>
<li>Robotics, Perception and Art</li>
<li>Live Algorithms</li>
<li>Cultural, Social and Media Theory and Computing</li>
<li>Sensorimotor Theory</li>
<li>Cybernetics and Human Knowing</li>
<li>Sensory Substitution</li>
<li>Distributed Thinking</li>
<li>Robot Language and Communication</li>
<li>Proposing a Symposium</li>
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<h2>Symposia Organisation</h2>
<p>Each symposium is organised by its own organising committee. The committee proposes the symposium, defines the area(s) and structure for it, issues calls for abstracts/papers etc., manages the process of selecting submitted papers for inclusion, and compiles an electronic file for inclusion in the convention proceedings. Organisers are welcome and encouraged to invite keynote speakers to their symposia, but they are also encouraged to seek external funding in order to pay keynote speakers’ registration fees and other costs. Symposium organisers and all speakers will be expected to pay registration fees.<br />
Proposers are welcome to submit, or be involved with more than one proposal.<br />
Proposers need not already be members of the AISB (though you will be expected to join the AISB if your symposium proposal is accepted).</p>
<p>Symposium proposals will be handled in two phases: For early approval, apply by the priority deadline. This will ensure the symposium is hosted at AISB 2025 if it meets the basic criteria. Proposals received after the priority deadline but before the standard deadline will undergo the same process, but acceptance is subject to conference venue logistics, such as room availability.</p>
<p>Priority deadline for symposium proposals: 2 August 2024<br />
Notification of acceptance (first round): 9 August 2024<br />
Standard deadline for symposium proposals: 30 August 2024<br />
Notification of acceptance (second round): 6 September 2024</p>
<p>Submissions should consist of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>A title</li>
<li>A 300-1000 word description of the scope of the symposium, and its relevance to the convention along with the nature of the academic events (talks, posters, panels, demonstrations, etc.)</li>
<li>Whether the symposium is intended as a sequel to a symposium at a previous AISB conference.</li>
<li>An indication of whether submissions will be by abstract, extended abstract or full paper.</li>
<li>Your preferences about the intended length of the symposium as a number of days (preferably one or two days, but anything from half a day to three days), together with a brief justification.</li>
<li>A description (up to 500 words) of any experience you have in organisation of academic research meetings (please note that it is not a requirement that you have such experience).</li>
<li>Names and affiliations of any invited speakers that you may have in mind for the symposium.</li>
<li>Your names and full contact details, together with, if possible, names and workplaces of the members of a preliminary, partial programme committee.</li>
</ul>
<p>Please email your completed proposal to <a href="mailto:symposia-proposals@aisb.org.uk" rel="noopener" target="_blank">symposia-proposals@aisb.org.uk</a></p>
<h2>Venue</h2>
<p>The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is thrilled to welcome you to our vibrant and dynamic campus, known for its cutting-edge facilities and strong connections with industry. We hope you enjoy your stay and take advantage of all that UWE Bristol and the beautiful city of Bristol have to offer. UWE Bristol’s main campus is located 2 miles from the M4 and M5 motorways and has good links with Bristol Parkway train station and city centre buses.</p>
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<p>As part of its mission to support the public understanding of Artificial Intelligence, AISB is endorsing the <a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=96151" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">From thinking tools to AI</a> session of the Digital thinking tools badged course. The session can be studied on its own or as part of the course any time, and it is free of charge. The course itself is badged by both <a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/get-started/badges-come-openlearn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Open University</a> and <a href="https://instituteofcoding.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Institute of Coding</a>.</p>
<p>The session <a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=96151" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">From thinking tools to AI</a> is about the dream of thinking machines. It traces the history of this dream from medieval times through to the AI developments of the 21st century. It critically examines the idea that AI will make humans redundant and argues that focusing on AI supremacy runs the danger of ignoring the more immediate dangers arising from AI making decisions using opaque algorithms and biased data.</p>
<p>The topics of opaque algorithms, explainable Artificial Intelligence and the broader question of what it means for machines to think have under discussion at many symposia of the AISB&#8217;s annual convention. <a href="https://aisb20.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/schedule/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This year&#8217;s convention</a>, which is currently being rescheduled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, includes several symposia on topics such as <em>opacity in machine learning</em>, <em>responsibility and control</em>, <em>Do Robots Talk?</em>, <em>AI and Moral Learning</em>, and <em>AI and Robotics Normative Spheres</em>.</p>
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