ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

We promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing

VOLUME 11, ISSUE 4, 2026

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Individual Articles

1. Table of Contents

2. Letter from the Editor
By Ella Scallan

Interviews with 2025 AAAI/ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awardees
3. Interview with Akari Asai – Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
4. Interview with Noah Golowich – Theoretical Foundations for Learning in Games in Dynamics Environments

5. AI Ethics & Policy Feature: The Accountability Vacuum: Agentic AI in High-Stakes Domains
By: Larry R. Medsker and Sumit Virmani

6. Conference Reports
Compiled by Ella Scallan

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AI Matters is a quarterly newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI) that features ideas and announcements of interest to the AI community. AI Matters is archived and made available in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, the newsletter is also emailed to SIGAI members and made publicly available on the SIGAI Website.

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Editor-In-Chief:

  • Iolanda Leite, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Anuj Karpatne, Virginia Tech
  • Ziyu Yao, George Mason University

Editorial Board:

  • Sanmay Das, George Mason University
  • Alexei Efros, University of California at Berkeley
  • Susan L. Epstein, The City University of New York
  • Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California
  • Doug Lange, SPAWAR Systems Center, US Navy
  • Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech
  • Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University

Editor emerita:

  • Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech (founding Editor-In-Chief)
  • Eric Eaton, University of Pennsylvania
  • Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma