Agent Foundations 2025 at CMU
We are opening applications to attend a 5 day agent foundations conference at Carnegie Mellon University. The program will include talks, breakout sessions, and other activities.
Endlessly debate your favored decision theory, precommit to precommit, bargain with(in) yourselves, make friends across the multiverse, and remember: never give in to acausal blackmail!
Apply here by January 26
Key Information
March 3-7, 2025
At Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA
30-40 attendees
Apply by January 26
About
Topics may include:
Bounded decision-making and resource-limited reasoning
Reflective stability and fixed points in agency
Logical decision theory and updateless decision theory
Causal vs evidential vs logical decision theory
Embedded agency
Natural abstraction hypothesis
Abstraction boundaries
Infra-Bayesian learning theory
Inner alignment and mesa-optimization
Logical causality
Multi-level world models
Game theory and multi-agent systems
Logical inductors and reflective reasoning
Foundations of reasoning under uncertainty
Coordination problems and acausal trade
Logical counterfactuals
Ontological crises and reasoning across ontologies
Are there any costs to attend?
The event is free to attend. However, we are unable to provide accommodations or travel support for this event. We will provide lunch and dinner as well as snacks, coffee, and tea daily.
Submissions
We strongly welcome paper submissions. Paper submissions should be submitted via this form by February 17.
Website
Here.
Will the event/sessions be recorded by any chance? (may not be able to attend, but would love to learn); additionally, would the topics be focused exclusively on relations to X risks?
Excited to attend, the 2023 conference was great!
Can we submit talks?
Yes, this should be an option in the form.
I think the website just links back to this blog post? Is that intentional?Edit: I also think the application link requires access before seeing the form?Second Edit: Seems fixed now! Thanks!
The link to the website is still broken.
Does clicking on HERE work for you?
Clicking on the word “Here” in the post works.
Are paper submissions exclusive?
No.
Great, looking forward to it, thanks for putting this on.