A tentative program for our ALIFE 2026 workhsop on "Agentic and Generative AI as Artificial Life" is out: Website: www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/ Join us in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) on August 20th.

Stefano Nichele@stenichele.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🦀Call for Contributions – Workshop on Agentic and Generative AI as Artificial Life How can we design agentic AI ecosystems that remain robust, safe, and secure as they become more complex and autonomous? We are inviting contributions to our upcoming workshop: 👉 www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/

Check out our new preprint "Conversable Complexity: Agentic LLM Collectives as Interpretable Substrates" Link: arxiv.org/abs/2607.01047

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Complexity and interpretability rarely coincide: complex systems are usually too opaque to question, while transparent ones are too simple interesting dynamics to emerge. What if we treated LLM agents as the basic computational unit to build agentic substrates? Paper thread 🧵

Our paper on Mass Conservation as an Inductive Bias for Self-Organized Criticality in Neural Cellular Automata has been accepted at ALIFE 2026 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23115

Jeff is giving a keynote at ALIFE 2026. See you in Waterloo!

ALIFE Conference 2026@alifeconf.bsky.social · last mo.

We're excited to start unveiling the keynote speakers for #ALIFE2026! First up: Jeff Clune (University of British Columbia), presenting: "Open-Ended, Quality Diversity, and AI-Generating Algorithms in the Era of Foundation Models" Join us in Waterloo, Canada, 17–21 Aug, 2026. 2026.alife.org

Don't know how often @sethbullock.bsky.social visits here so I wanted to convey his message that our dear friend and ALIFE colleague INMAN HARVEY recently passed away. Follow the link below to Seth's touching post on LinkedIn. #ALIFE

A few days ago I heard that Inman Harvey had died quite suddenly. Inman was a central figure within the international Artificial Life research community and along with a few others helped define the… ...

A few days ago I heard that Inman Harvey had died quite suddenly. Inman was a central figure within the international Artificial Life research community and along with a few others helped define the r...

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Coverage of the NORA (Norwegian AI Research Consortium) annual awards 2026, including my award for AI community building and education 🏆 www.nora.ai/news/2026/no...

NORA Awards 2026: A Celebration of Excellence Across Norwegian AI - NORA - Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium

During the NORA Annual Conference 2026 in Oslo, we presented our annual awards, recognising outstanding contributions to AI in Norway. The awards honour individuals and organisations that have demonst...

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We are devastated by the unexpected death of Inman Harvey a few days ago. A towering figure in artificial life and evolutionary robotics for 35 years, he was a mentor, inspiration and friend to generations of Artificial Life researchers. A full obituary will follow.

Stefano @stenichele.bsky.social gave a great talk about reimplementing code by Nils Aall Baricelli, the pioneer who ran a self replicating automaton on an early computer while the military wasn't using it at night

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION: June 14th, 2026 *** www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/

Stefano Nichele@stenichele.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🦀Call for Contributions – Workshop on Agentic and Generative AI as Artificial Life How can we design agentic AI ecosystems that remain robust, safe, and secure as they become more complex and autonomous? We are inviting contributions to our upcoming workshop: 👉 www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/

Small experiment on "semantic artificial life". I put small LLMs (Qwen 2.5 0.5B) on a 1D lattice. It is an NCA where update rules are LLMs that receive tokens from left/right neighbors & their previous output and produce new output tokens.

Good news if you’re still finishing your #ALIFE2026 submission! ⏳ Deadline extended to April 12, 2026 (AoE) — final extension. 📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year. 👉 Details & templates on our website. 2026.alife.org

🦀Call for Contributions – Workshop on Agentic and Generative AI as Artificial Life How can we design agentic AI ecosystems that remain robust, safe, and secure as they become more complex and autonomous? We are inviting contributions to our upcoming workshop: 👉 www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/

The International Society for Artificial Life is offering 5$ memberships to a limited number of people located in low/middle income countries. If you have been interested in the membership benefits (alife.org/membership/) but cannot afford it, apply here: alife.org/2026/03/24/n... #ALife

New ISAL Global Membership Program Pilot

Overview ISAL has core values of being an inclusive and supportive community as well as making the field viable for junior and early career scholars to succeed and thrive in. We recognize that the cos...

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We are organising the 4th edition of our special session on CA, distributed dynamical systems, and their applications to intelligence. Submit your works and join us at ALIFE 2026 in Waterloo (Canada). bingdev.binghamton.edu/sayama/SS-di...

What can a 70-year-old idea about digital organisms teach us about the future of AI and artificial life? 🧬💡 📄 Read our report: arxiv.org/abs/2603.08463 #ArtificialLife #ComplexSystems #OpenEndedEvolution #ArtificialIntelligence #ALife

Submissions for #ALife2026 workshop, tutorial, and spec.session proposals are now closed. Thanks for the great response! Decision letters will be sent soon, and accepted sessions will appear on the website. 👉 2026.alife.org Reminder: the deadline for full papers and extended summaries is March 30.

Do you know a student who has published an amazing paper? A veteran professor you admire? Nominate them to win an #ISAL 2026 Award! 🏆 Winners will be announced at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! Want to know more? Check out the form and submit it by March 8 AoE! #ALIFE2026 forms.gle/bkd4ireJSSUc...

Kristine's paper "Information theoretic measures of neural and behavioural coupling predict representational drift" is now available on PLOS Comp. Biology. Link: doi.org/10.1371/jour... This work was led by Kristine (former PhD student) while visiting University of Cambridge during her PhD.

📢 Call for Papers: #ALIFE2026 Waterloo 🇨🇦 & online | 17–21 Aug 2026 📝 Full Papers & Summaries: 30 March 2026 📌 Special Sessions, Workshops & Tutorials proposals: 20 Feb 2026 Theme: Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems 2026.alife.org

What a week—projects, tutorials, discussion groups, art demo & even a complexity-alife quiz! Thank you to all the attendees who brought a fantastic energy to this year's ALICE workshop. We can't wait to see you again next year, this time in Norway 🇳🇴 Thank you to @aicentre.dk and @itu.dk !

The first month of 2026 has flown by and today we bring you the new monthly #complexitycat thread, where you'll find opportunities that you will fall in love with. 🧵😻 (Keep an eye next week, we'll bring you more.😉)

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OT: here's our new baby, basically a third child. His name is Happy, 9 weeks old ❤️

What a great week at the @aliceworkshop.org (Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution) in Copenhagen. Our multidisciplinary group worked intensely for the whole week and we got the 2nd prize!! Thanks to the amazing organizers from the REAL lab and the jury.

Projects time 👨‍💻👩‍💻🧑‍💻

The panel discussion with all the guests speakers and moderated by Milton Montero & @elisecutts.bsky.social

Day two: tutorials, more discussion groups with @angelgm.bsky.social, @kyrre2000.bsky.social and Alexander Mordvintsev

Discussion groups with @stenichele.bsky.social, @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social, Susan Stepney & @ericmedvetts.bsky.social

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Discussion groups underway at the @itu.dk skyboxes 🧑‍🔬☀️

Project pitch time 💡 Great project ideas by attendees and guest speakers @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social, @angelgm.bsky.social, @stenichele.bsky.social, @kyrre2000.bsky.social, @ericmedvetts.bsky.social, Susan Stepney & Alexander Mordvintsev #ALICEinCopenhagen #ALICE26

Less than a week for ALICE—we are looking forward welcome you all in Copenhagen! ⛄ You can find the updated program here: aliceworkshop.org/program/

Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2026 will take place in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), 17-21 August 2026. More details coming soon!