<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Hope you are enjoying the very beginnings of spring!<br><div><br></div><div>I am on the program committee for this exciting upcoming symposium and wanted to pass along the details below. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Susannah </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Call for Abstracts: AISB 2026 Symposium: Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">1-2 July 2026 AISB 2026, University of Sussex, UK, </span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/" title="https://aisb.org.uk/"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://aisb.org.uk/</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Keynote Speaker: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Anil Seth, Prof of Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Symposium: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype-promise-and-speculation/#Symposium_outline" title="https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype-promise-and-speculation/#Symposium_outline"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype-promise-and-speculation</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Submission:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> Abstracts<b> </b>of 500 words <b>Deadline: </b>23 March 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Please send any questions to Y. J. Erden (University of Twente): </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:y.j.erden@utwente.nl" title="mailto:y.j.erden@utwente.nl"><i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue;">y.j.erden@utwente.nl</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The replication crisis</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The replication crisis has crossed multiple fields in science asking if results presented in published papers can be reproduced, repeated, and/or replicated. In their efforts to verify results various disciplines, including computer science, have already found that the answer for too many papers is “no”. In this symposium we look at the replication crisis as it pertains especially to computer science, whether within the discipline, or as applied to, or utilised in, other disciplines, such as computational modelling for neuroscience. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">AI bubbles</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">It’s clear that AI development is expanding substantially, but the extent to which this growth is sustainable is unclear. Meanwhile, the possibility of this becoming another bubble, like those from the dot com boom and real estate, is clear. A bubble is a vague concept that captures where a process or commodity is valued or hyped beyond its intrinsic worth, typically in unsustainable ways. If contemporary expectations currently dominating the AI field do turn out to be a bubble we can expect further expansion, and then collapse, typically causing damage in the process. <b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">We invite papers from a wide range of disciplines, including:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> computer science, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Explainable AI, philosophy, behavioural sciences, social sciences, and those working with computational models, e.g. in finance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Example research questions: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">What kinds of impacts are computational methods having on science, e.g. machine learning methods, statistical analysis?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">How do computer science methods harm or help the replicability of research?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Is research in computer science replicable?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Does the name ‘Artificial Intelligence’ have an effect on what is expected of AI?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Are current valuations (financial, social etc) of AI realistic?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Is there an AI bubble in science?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Related bubbles that might be relevant to these topics, e.g. is big data also a bubble?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Organising Committee</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Y. J. Erden (University of Twente) </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:y.j.erden@utwente.nl" title="mailto:y.j.erden@utwente.nl"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue;">y.j.erden@utwente.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Kiona Bijker (University of Twente) </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:k.bijker@student.utwente.nl" title="mailto:k.bijker@student.utwente.nl"><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue;">k.bijker@student.utwente.nl</span></a></span><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Katleen Gabriels (Maastricht University) </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:k.gabriels@maastrichtuniversity.nl" title="mailto:k.gabriels@maastrichtuniversity.nl"><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue;">k.gabriels@maastrichtuniversity.nl</span></a></span><span lang="NL" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Martin Lentschat (Université Toulouse) </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:martin.lentschat@univ-tlse2.fr" title="mailto:martin.lentschat@univ-tlse2.fr"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue;">martin.lentschat@univ-tlse2.fr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Doina Bucur (University of Twente) </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:d.bucur@utwente.nl" title="mailto:d.bucur@utwente.nl"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: blue;">d.bucur@utwente.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>