Now in its 4th year, the NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track has kept its theme on Agency, inviting research papers and artworks which explore emerging applications, methods, and critiques of artificial intelligence and machine learning in art, design, and creative practice.
Agency in AI refers to a model’s ability to act independently and make decisions based on its understanding of its environment and goal without human intervention. The NeurIPS Creative AI Track says this year their focus is on Agency- how Agency emerges, is exercised, negotiated and contested through creative practice with AI.
“Agency may belong to an artist, a collaborator, a model, an audience, a platform, a community, or even a larger social and technical system, and may be asserted, delegated, shared, resisted, constrained, or redistributed,” the NeurIPS further elaborated on its website.
The submissions to be presented at the renowned NeurIPS 2026 conference which is scheduled to take place in Sydney, Australia in December between 6-12 will not be only limited to the theme.
“We welcome all forms of artwork and research that propose original ideas in Creative AI. We particularly encourage work that crosses disciplinary boundaries and may be critical, speculative, poetic, performative, empirical, technical, or experimental,” the foundation informed.
NeurIPS 2026 is a non-profit organization whose aim is to foster the exchange of research advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, by hosting an annual interdisciplinary academic conference with the highest ethical standards for a diverse and inclusive community.
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