AAAI-26: Call for Papers

The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26) will be held from January 20 – January 27, 2026, at the Singapore EXPO, Singapore.

Conference Overview

• Purpose: To promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines.
• Theme: Creating collaborative bridges within and beyond AI, with emphasis on AI for social impact and responsible AI.
• Activities: Technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, exhibition programs, a Bridge Program, and a Lab Program.

Main Technical Track

Submission Details

• Page Limit: Submissions may consist of up to 7 pages of technical content plus additional pages solely for references.
• Supplementary Material: Authors may submit supplementary material (technical appendix; multimedia; code and data), but reviewers are not required to review it. The supplementary material deadline is August 4, 2025.
• Reproducibility: All authors must complete a reproducibility checklist.
• Reviewer Availability: All authors are expected to be available to review (light load).
• Format: AAAI-26 is an in-person conference.

Appropriate Use of Generative AI by Authors

• Authors may judiciously use generative AI tools, but remain fully responsible for all submitted material.
• Plagiarism, non-existent references, or other violations of the AAAI Code of Professional Ethics and Conduct will be subject to sanctions.
• AI systems, including Generative Models such as ChatGPT, are prohibited from authorship or being used as a citable source.

Timetable for Authors (all deadlines Anywhere on Earth - UTC-12)

• Open Review submission site opens for author registration: June 18, 2025
• Open Review submission site opens for paper submission: June 25, 2025
• Abstracts due: July 25, 2025
• Full papers due: August 1, 2025
• Supplementary material and code due: August 4, 2025
• Notification of Phase 1 rejections: September 8, 2025
• Author feedback window: October 2-8, 2025
• Notification of final acceptance or rejection (Main Technical Track): November 3, 2025
• Submission of camera-ready files (Main Technical Track): November 13, 2025

Special Tracks

AAAI-26 features two special tracks: AI for Social Impact and AI Alignment. The same reviewing schedule will be followed for all papers.

Special Track on AI for Social Impact (AISI)

• Focus: Emphasizes the fit between AI techniques and problems of social importance, the significance of the addressed problem, engagement with previous literature, novelty and justification of the AI-based approach, quality of evaluation, facilitation of follow-up work, and overall scope for social impact.
• Review Rubric: Different from the main track.

Special Track on AI Alignment (AIA)

• Focus: Scalable oversight, mechanistic interpretability, empirical robustness evaluation, red-teaming, human cognitive and psychological factors, and safe-by-design engineering. Also welcomes work on transparent governance frameworks, economic incentives, institutional accountability, human-centered modeling and evaluation, and pluralistic coordination methods.
• Encouraged: Submissions that release open datasets, reproducible code, or practical evaluation tools.
• Review Emphasis: Technical correctness, appropriate coverage of related work, and relevance to the track.

Topics of Interest

AAAI-26 welcomes submissions reporting research that advances artificial intelligence broadly conceived. Key areas include:

• Machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, data mining, multiagent systems, knowledge representation, human-in-the-loop AI, search, planning, reasoning, robotics and perception, and ethics.
• The conference expressly encourages work that cuts across technical areas (e.g., machine learning and computer vision), bridges between AI and related research areas (e.g., neuroscience, cognitive science), or develops AI techniques in the context of important application domains (e.g., healthcare, sustainability, transportation, and commerce).

Review Criteria

• All submissions will be rigorously evaluated for the significance and novelty of contributions, theoretical and/or empirical soundness, relevance to the AAAI community, and clarity of exposition.
• Additional considerations include adherence to responsible research practices and steps to ensure reproducibility.
• Preference is given to solid technical papers that explore new territory or point out new directions for research over those that only incrementally advance the state of the art within a narrow sub-area.

AI-Assisted Peer-Review Process (Pilot Program)

• AAAI-26 will implement a pilot program for an AI-Assisted Peer Review System to explore the use of AI in the review process.
• AI-generated reviews and summaries will supplement human reviews but will not contain ratings or recommendations, and will not play a formal role in paper decisions.
• The two-phase review process will include an AI-generated supplementary review in Phase 1, and authors will be able to respond to all reviews (including the AI-generated one) in Phase 2.
• Privacy controls will be implemented to ensure confidentiality and compliance with data protection regulations.

Contact Information

• Registration Inquiries: aaai26@aaai.org
• Submission Process & Conference Inquiries: workflowchairs26@aaai.zendesk.com