[meetings] Second Call for Papers and Extended Deadline: RaD-AI at AAMAS'26

[Mirsky, Reuth]

Second Call for Papers and Extended Deadline

AAMAS-26 Workshop on Rebellious and Disobedient Agents in AI (RaD-AI)

May 26, 2026; Paphos, Cyprus

https://sites.google.com/view/rad-ai/rad-ai

tl;dr updates:

Submissions are now available until February 20, 2026. 

We are happy to announce our keynote speakers: Réka Markovich, Felipe Meneguzzi, and Stefan Sarkadi.

Should intelligent autonomous agents always obey human commands or instructions? We argue that, in some contexts, they should not. Most existing research on collaborative robots and agents assumes that a “good” agent is one that complies with the instructions it is given and works in a predictable manner under the consent of the human operator it serves (e.g., it should never deceive its operator). The goal of this workshop is to challenge this assumption and to rethink the desired abilities and responsibilities of collaborative agents. These include, for example, exhibiting behavior that attempts appropriate and harm-preventing non-compliance (e.g., safety constraints in autonomous vehicles or training LLMs to avoid potentially harmful or norm-violating output), among others. 

Paper Submissions:

Papers should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=radai26

 We accept submissions of the following types: regular research papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages), position papers (up to 2 pages), and tool talks (up to 2 pages).

Papers must be in high-resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Reviews are double-blind, and submissions must conform to the AAMAS-26 submission instructions found here:  

https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/.

Invited Speakers:

- Dr. Réka Markovich is the head of the Computational Law and Machine Ethics (CLAiM) group at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Luxembourg.

- Dr. Felipe Meneguzzi is the head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and Chair of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.

- Dr. Stefan Sarkadi leads the Hybrid Intelligence and Deception Exploration (HIDE) and the co-lead of the Centre for Defence and Secure AI at the University of Lincoln

Dates:

February 20th, 2026: Workshop Paper Submission Deadline

March 20, 2026: Acceptance Notifications Emailed to Authors

TBD: Workshop Registration Deadline

May 26, 2026: Workshop

Organizing Committee (alphabetized):

David W. Aha, Navy Center for Applied Research in AI, Naval Research Laboratory

Gordon Briggs, Navy Center for Applied Research in AI, Naval Research Laboratory

Peta Masters, Department of Informatics, King’s College London

Reuth Mirsky, Computer Science Department, Tufts University (primary PoC: reuth....@tufts.edu)

Sarath Sreedharan, Computer Science Department, Colorado State University

Mor Vered, Department of Data Science & AI, Monash University

Ruchen (Puck) Wen, Colgate University