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<p><strong>1-2 July 2026</strong><br />
<strong>University of Sussex, Brighton, UK</strong></p>
<p>The AISB Convention is a flourishing annual conference that thrives from an interdisciplinary audience and facilitates discourse amongst a diverse set of researchers and research cultures. The 2026 convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will be held as an in-person only event on 1st and 2nd July 2026.</p>
<p><strong>Day of celebration: </strong>life and work of Prof Margaret Boden, <strong>30 June</strong>.</p>
<p><em>Attendance to the day of celebration is free for attendees of the AISB Convention.</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Conference Report: 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025) Zhiwei Liu (University of Manchester, Zhiwei.liu@manchester.ac.uk) I attended the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025), held in Bologna, Italy, from October 25 to 30. The conference provided me with the opportunity to listen to inspiring talks by many distinguished experts and scholars in [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><em>Zhiwei Liu</em> (University of Manchester, Zhiwei.liu@manchester.ac.uk)</p>
<p>I attended the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025), held in Bologna, Italy, from October 25 to 30. The conference provided me with the opportunity to listen to inspiring talks by many distinguished experts and scholars in the field of AI. Moreover, I was honoured to present my research titled “ConspEmoLLM-v2: A Robust and Stable Model to Detect Sentiment-Transformed Conspiracy Theories” at the conference. I am deeply grateful to AISB for providing student funding, which enabled me to participate in ECAI 2025, engage with numerous scholars, build connections, and explore potential collaborations.</p>
<h2>Presented Research</h2>
<p>The work that I presented focused on addressing the challenges of detecting conspiracy theories in the era of large language models (LLMs). While LLMs bring numerous benefits, they also pose significant risks, particularly through their ability to generate or disguise misinformation such as conspiracy theories. My research examined how LLMs can rephrase conspiracy theories by softening their sentiment tone, transforming typically strong negative sentiment into a more neutral or even positive expression, which makes automated detection more difficult. To respond to this challenge, we developed an augmented dataset, ConDID-v2, which extends the existing ConDID conspiracy detection dataset by including LLM-rewritten versions of human-authored conspiracy tweets with reduced negativity. The quality of these rewritten texts was carefully assessed through both human and LLM-based evaluation. Using this new dataset, we trained ConspEmoLLM-v2, an enhanced conspiracy detection model that builds upon previous work. The results demonstrated that ConspEmoLLM-v2 not only maintains or improves performance on original human-authored content but also significantly outperforms existing models on sentiment-transformed data. This research highlights the importance of developing detection systems that remain robust even when misinformation is deliberately disguised through sentiment manipulation. </p>
<h3>paper</h3>
<p><a href="https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/FAIA251468" target="_blank">ConspEmoLLM-v2: A Robust and Stable Model to Detect Sentiment-Transformed Conspiracy Theories</a></p>
<h2>ECAI2025 Conference Overview</h2>
<p>ECAI is Europe’s premier conference on Artificial Intelligence. it brought together leading researchers, students, and professionals from academia and industry to discuss the latest developments and challenges in AI. ECAI 2025, was held in Bologna, Italy, continuing its long tradition as a central meeting point for the AI community. The conference featured a comprehensive program including technical papers, workshops, invited talks, and the PAIS conference dedicated to AI applications. Topics covered the full breadth of artificial intelligence, with many papers exploring interdisciplinary themes that connect AI with fields such as ethics, cognitive science, and social impact. </p>
<h2>Highlighted Talks</h2>
<p>The conference featured a diverse range of insightful sessions that highlighted the depth and breadth of current AI research. Among the keynote talks, Prof. Mohit Bansal discussed building trustworthy and adaptive AI agents for collaborative reasoning and multimodal generation. Prof. Marco Dorigo presented a novel hierarchical architecture for robot swarms that combines the scalability of self-organization with the controllability of centralized systems. Prof. Edith Elkind discussed new approaches to defining and extending the concept of proportionality in multiwinner voting systems. Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska explored how formal verification methods can be used to provide provable guarantees of robustness in artificial intelligence systems. The “Frontiers in AI” series was particularly engaging, showcasing innovative perspectives across several domains. The invited talks showcasing cutting-edge research on AI reliability, transparency, verification, control, fairness, and human-centred design. Speakers introduced innovative methods for provably robust AI, interpretable models, effective human-AI interaction, and model-centric evaluation and control. The series offered a concise view of emerging trends and practical approaches shaping the future of AI research and applications.</p>
<h2>Networking and Social Opportunities</h2>
<p>The conference offered a wonderful combination of professional and social experiences, providing ample opportunities to connect with fellow participants, researchers, and professors in a relaxed and welcoming environment. I greatly enjoyed engaging in conversations during coffee breaks, lunches, and dinners, which allowed me to exchange ideas, gain new perspectives, and build meaningful professional relationships, particularly with researchers working in the field of misinformation detection. The Welcome Reception at Palazzo Re Enzo was a highlight, offering a historic and inspiring setting to meet new colleagues and share experiences. Similarly, the guided tour of Bologna provided a unique chance to explore the city while engaging in informal discussions with other participants. Beyond the academic interactions, I also had the chance to savor the local Italian cuisine, which added a memorable cultural dimension to the event. I am very thankful to AISB for supporting my participation, which made this valuable experience possible. This conference has been both inspiring and enriching, and I believe the connections and insights gained will have a lasting impact on my academic and professional development.</p>
<h2>About the Author</h2>
<p><a href="https://lzw108.github.io/" target="_blank">Zhiwei Liu</a> is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He focuses on the technical applications and discoveries of LLMs, primarily applied in misinformation detection and sentiment analysis. Prior to this, he obtained his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.<br />
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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>
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<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">What kinds of impacts are computational methods having on science, e.g. machine learning methods, statistical analysis?</li>
<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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<li aria-level="1">Saana Jukola (Philosophy, University of Twente)</li>
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<td>14:00</td>
<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>14:30</td>
<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>
<td>Y J Erden</td>
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<td>16:00</td>
<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>16:30</td>
<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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<li>18 February 2026</li>
<li>18:30 &#8211; 19:30</li>
<li>The Royal Society</li>
<li>Watch online</li>
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<p>Contemporary AI systems such as ChatGPT seem to offer articulate, wide-ranging expertise — yet beneath the surface, they fail many basic tests of rational intelligence. In this engaging talk, Professor Michael Wooldridge (Fellow of AISB) explores how these systems actually work and why they display such strange, inconsistent, and often entertaining behaviour. He will contrast today’s AI with classical ideas of logic and reason, and discuss what these developments mean for the future frontiers of artificial intelligence — and for the enduring dream of truly intelligent machines.
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Full details are available <a href="https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/02/faraday-prize-lecture/" target="_blank">here on the Royal Society web site</a>.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In a report published yesterday, Andrea Renda and Nicoleta Kyosovska from the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) comment on the EU plans for AI (giga)factories: sanctuaries of innovation, or cathedrals in the desert? Download the full report here. Is this the right direction for Europe?</p>
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<strong>EU plans for AI (giga)factories: sanctuaries of innovation, or cathedrals in the desert?</strong><br />
Download the full report <a href="https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/eu-plans-for-ai-gigafactories-sanctuaries-of-innovation-or-cathedrals-in-the-desert/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Is this the right direction for Europe?</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>CALL FOR SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS: AISB 2026, University of Sussex DEADLINE: November 30, 2025 Contact: Simon Bowes S.C.Bowes@sussex.ac.uk 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. Keynote Speaker: Anil Seth The AISB 2026 convention will [&#8230;]</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>
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<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>
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<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.
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<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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<p>It is with great joy that we note this week that the Royal Society has awarded the Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture 2025 to AISB Fellow Professor Michael Wooldridge.</p>
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The award was made based on Professor Wooldridge&#8217;s award-winning work as a leading researcher, educator and commentator in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). His popular science books, lectures and media appearances have informed millions. Full details are available on the <a href="https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/michael-faraday-prize/" target="_blank">Royal Society web site</a>.</p>
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