fall symposium series
Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's 2025 Fall Symposium Series
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's 2025 Fall Symposium Series was held November 6-8, 2025, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. There were six symposia in the program: AI for Social Good: Emerging Methods, Measures, Data, and Ethics; AI Trustworthiness and Risk Assessment for Challenged Contexts; Engineering Safety-Critical AI Systems; First AAAI Symposium on Quantum Information and Machine Learning: Bridging Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence; Safe, Ethical, Certified, Uncertainty-aware, Robust, and Explainable AI for Health; and Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development. This report contains summaries of the symposia, which were submitted by most, but not all, of the symposium organizers. AI has demonstrated transformative potential across sectors such as aging, combating information manipulation, disaster response, education, environmental sustainability, government, healthcare, social care, transportation, and urban planning. Yet, the systematic development of AI For Social Good remains fragmented across those many research communities, with limited convergence around effective methodologies, equitable impact measurement, or access to important data and long-term engagement with targeted populations. The main objective for this symposium was to convene across disciplines and engage researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, with a particular focus on finding methods, measures and data that could be used in multiple settings. There were roughly 30 participants.
Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's 2024 Fall Symposium Series
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's 2024 Fall Symposium Series was held at Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, November 7-9, 2024. There were seven symposia in the fall program: AI Trustworthiness and Risk Assessment for Challenging Contexts (ATRACC), Artificial Intelligence for Aging in Place, Integrated Approaches to Computational Scientific Discovery, Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph and Ontology Engineering (LLMs for KG and OE), Machine Intelligence for Equitable Global Health (MI4EGH), Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development, Using AI to Build Secure and Resilient Agricultural Systems: Leveraging AI to mitigate Cyber, Climatic and Economic Threats in Food, Agricultural, and Water (FAW) Systems. This report contains summaries of the workshops, which were submitted by some, but not all, of the workshop chairs. The rapid embrace of AI-based critical systems introduces new dimensions of errors that induce increased levels of risk, limiting trustworthiness. Thus, AI-based critical systems must be assessed across many dimensions by different parties (researchers, developers, regulators, customers, insurance companies, end-users, etc.) for different reasons. Assessment of trustworthiness should be made at both the full system level and at the level of individual AI components. The focus of this symposium was on AI trustworthiness broadly and methods that help provide bounds for fairness, reproducibility, reliability, and accountability in the context of quantifying AI-system risk, spanning the entire AI lifecycle from theoretical research formulations all the way to system implementation, deployment, and operation. This first AAAI symposium on AI Trustworthiness and Risk Assessment in Challenging Contexts was triggered by two initiatives on responsible and trustworthy AI that came together thanks to encouragement given by AAAI: an international community (mostly European and Asia-South Pacific) around AI trustworthiness assessment for critical systems, already gathered at the AITA SSS Symposium in 2023; and a US-based community around University of West Florida, gathered about the question of AI risk assessment in challenging contexts e.g., for security or defense applications.
Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's 2023 Fall Symposium Series
During the final half-day of the AI-HRI symposium, the community was joined by the Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD) symposium attendees to discuss needs, expectations, and preferences for future gatherings like TAHRI to maintain the welcoming, inclusive, and close community that has persisted throughout the ten years of AI-HRI. The AAAI Fall Symposium Series provided an opportunity ten years ago for researchers at the intersection of the fields of AI and HRI to come together in an attempt to identify where they belong when neither field's venues seemed to provide the correct fit for their research contributions, serving as a bridge between the two areas of study. As the community met and learned from each other over the past ten iterations of the symposium, it became clearer that AI-HRI is a unique field of study that is equally important to both fields and their venues--more importantly, these gatherings fostered a strong, supportive community that recognizes the challenges that their colleagues face trying to understand AI problems in HRI domains, as well as HRI problems surfacing as AI becomes more ubiquitous in society. Everyone wanted more time in break-out discussions due to the wonderful, productive conversations and networking, which is a testament to the community's positive and comfortable engagement between both familiar and new faces. Although the tenth anniversary marked the last AI-HRI at the AAAI Fall Symposium Series, the opportunities that the venue offered have made this the beginning of a new community.
Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's 2022 Fall Symposium Series
The symposium consisted of four keynote speakers with varying engagement with the idea of a distributed teaching collaborative. The symposium began with a keynote by Chad Jenkins, a professor of robotics at the University of Michigan. In his talk, he laid out the symposium's goal and the intent of the distributed teaching collaborative. He highlighted efforts to offer distributed classes between the University of Michigan and Barea College, Howard University, and Morehouse College. The second keynote was Dr. Talitha Washington the current director of the AUC data science initiative.
Reports of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's 2021 Fall Symposium Series
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Symposium has been a successful venue of discussion and collaboration since 2014. During that time, these symposia provided a fertile ground for numerous collaborations and pioneered many discussions revolving around HRI, XAI for HRI, service robots, interactive learning, and more. This unique intersection of expertise, along with the rising interest in robots in mixed human-robot environments, calls for an informed discussion about the future of AI-HRI as a united research community. As such, this year's symposium had no single theme and AI-HRI submissions were encouraged from across disciplines and research interests. Moreover, with the rising interest in AR and VR as part of an AI-HRI system, along with the difficulties in running physical experiments during the pandemic, this year we specifically encouraged researchers to submit works that do not include a physical robot in their evaluation, but promote HRI research in general.
AAAI 2019 Fall Symposium Series
All persons, organizations and entities that attend AAAI conferences and events are subject to the standards of conduct set forth on the AAAI Code of Conduct for Events and Conferences. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is pleased to present the 2019 Fall Symposium Series, to be held Thursday through Saturday, November 7–9 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia adjacent to Washington, DC. An informal reception will be held on Thursday, November 7. A general plenary session, in which the highlights of each symposium will be presented, will be held on Friday, November 8. For further information, please contact: AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2275 East Bayshore Road, Suite 160 Palo Alto, California 94303 650-328-3123 650-321-4457 (fax) fss19@aaai.org The 2019 Plenary Session, to be held November 8 at 6:00 PM, will have a modified format this year.
AAAI Conferences Calendar
This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. ICAIL-2019 will be held 17-21 June in USA. SoCS-19 will be held July 16-17 2019 (immediately AAAI Fall Symposium Series. IAAI-20 Conference will be held February 9-11, 2020 at the Hilton New York Midtown Hotel in New York, New York USA.
AAAI Conferences Calendar
This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. KR Tenth International Conference on The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference 2018 will be held October 30 - No - Artificial Intelligence and Law. AAAI-19 vember 2, 2018, in Tempe, Arizona, ICAIL-2019 will be held 17-21 June in will be held 27 January - 1 February USA.
AAAI Conferences Calendar
This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. The ICAART 2018 will be held 16-18 January, Annual AAAI Conference on AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium Series 2018, in Funchal, Madeira, Portuga. Technology, USA. will be held October 24 - 26, IEA/AIE-2018 will be Research Society Conference. AAAI-18 2018 will be held October 30 - will be held February 2-7 at the Hilton November 2, 2018, in Tempe, Arizona, New Orleans Riverside Hotel, New USA.
AAAI Conferences Calendar
This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. Digital Entertainment will be held on Web and Social Media. LPN-ICAPS-17 will be held June 18-Québec City, Canada. MR'17 will be held July 3-6, 2017 in 23, 2017 in Pittsburgh, PA USA.