Vol. 8 No. 1: Proceedings of the 2026 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

Edited by Ron Petrick, Christopher Geib
April 7-9, 2026, San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront, Burlingame, California, USA.

Published by The AAAI Press, Washington, DC, USA
Copyright © 2026, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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ISSN 2994-4317
ISBN-10 1-57735-907-0
ISBN-13 978-1-57735-907-4

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 2026 Spring Symposium Series (SSS-25) was held on April 7-9, 2026 in Burlingame, California. This AAAI Symposium Series fosters a more intimate environment, enabling emerging AI communities to engage in workshop-style discussions. The topics change each year, ensuring a dynamic venue that stays current with the evolving landscape of AI research and applications.

This year, the program included the following seven symposia:

• Advances in AI-Enabled Tactical Autonomy: from Sensing to Execution
• AI in Business: Intelligent Transformation and Management
• AI+HADR
• Machine Consciousness: Integrating Theory, Technology, and Philosophy
• Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering for Knowledge-Grounded Semantic Agents (MAKE 2026)
• Multi-Agent System Safety and Teamwork (MASST): Building Better AI
• Will AI Light Up Human Creativity or Replace It?: Toward Well-Being AI for co-evolving human and machine intelligence