The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."
—Stephen Hawking
AJCAI 2026 will take place in Auckland from November 27–30, followed by ACML 2026 in Melbourne from December 1–4, ahead of NeurIPS 2026, the major AI research conference scheduled across multiple locations in December.
NeurIPS 2026 has selected 102 workshops from 454 valid submissions, with workshops in Sydney, Paris and Atlanta highlighting a shift in AI research beyond large language models toward autonomous agents, physical AI, adaptive foundation models, robotics, AI for science and more reliable and efficient systems.
The Position Paper Track at NeurIPS 2026 claimed that it has adopted a strict AI-use policy, requiring papers to be substantially human-written, with limiting the use of AI only to copy-editing.
The Creative AI Track at NeurIPS 2026 is calling for artworks and papers that examine how agency emerges, is shared, contested or constrained when humans and AI systems make things together.
The boycott of NeurIPS 2026 Conference by Chinese scientific bodies continue even after a public apology from organizers.
NeurIPS Foundation says the decision to prohibit certain US sanctioned institutes based in China from submissions was an internal mistake,.
