Hi Stefano, Reiji, and all,

Thank you for the thoughtful review and concrete suggestions. I really appreciate the spirit of coordination here.

Having read all three proposals carefully, my sense is that we have three distinct workshops that, together, tell a compelling story. I would love to propose that we keep all three separate, but schedule them back-to-back as a coherent “Agentic AI” afternoon at ALIFE. Each workshop would keep its own description, and we would use the same submission system (OpenReview?). We could also do a short joint workshop / panel at the end of the afternoon to tie the threads together. This could create a nice moment of synergy without forcing a merge.

The arc could be something like:

Agent Ethology — the phenomenological layer. Observing what agents are already doing in the wild, through the lens of ethology and behavioral ecology.
Safety and Security in Ecologies of Autonomous Systems — the governance layer. Once we see what’s happening, how do we govern it? Accountability, regulation, and reputation.

Generative AI as a Source of Complexity — the modeling layer. What new dynamics and structures emerge when generative AI itself is the substrate for simulation and evolution?

This gives us a natural progression: observation → governance → modeling. Each workshop keeps its own identity, framing, and call for papers, but the sequence makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Practically, if each workshop takes a 60-minute slot, we could request a 240-minute block, depending on what’s possible.

1:30pm-5:30pm.

60 min

30 min.

We would also be happy to coordinate on keynote invitations to avoid overlap, and to cross-promote each other’s calls for papers.

What does everyone think?

Best,

Amber