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I had the honor of giving a keynote at @icmlconf in Seoul: “Moving from Behavioral Guardrails to Principled Agency.” 🚀 Simple guardrails are no longer enough. We have entered the "teenage years" of AI. Read the compressed highlights on X: 👇 👇 👇 x.com/verena_rieser/…

@icmlconf 🙏 I have made annotated slides available here: cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks…

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul last week titled “What will be left for us to work on?” I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available, annotated with a lightly edited transcript: cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks… I made three arguments. First, the "AI as Normal Technology" framework is a correct and useful as a way to think about AI’s impacts, unless and until there is some future discontinuity such as through recursive self-improvement. Second, even though we should take recursive self-improvement seriously, there is no milestone that companies might achieve in the lab that will suddenly put us all out of work. Third and finally, jobs of the future will be radically different, and a lot of adaptation will be needed. I shared my thinking about what this might look like and ended with a vision of human/AI “co-superintelligence”.

That's a wrap! We hope you had a fun, productive, and idea-filled Gangnam-styled #ICML2026! It's been a pleasure posting with you -- stay tuned for more content. We wish you a safe trip home, and see you next year!

Workshops! Workshops! Workshops! What are you going to on the last day of #icml2026?

Wrapping up day one or workshops at #icml2026! See you for day 2!

Thanks for having me! It was a pleasure presenting to this audience. Thank you for the engaging and thoughtful questions! #icml2026 #seoul

Arvind Narayanan @random_walker brings us a talk “What will be left for us to work on?” At #icml2026

Join us for this morning’s amazing plenary talk by @verena_rieser “From Behavioral Gaurdrails to Principled Agency”

Congrats to the 2026 test of time award winners! #icml2026

Aviv Regev is delivering one of the keynote talks this year at #icml2026 on Lab in the Loop for drug research and discovery!

@ShamKakade6 gave an incredible talk this morning to a packed house! #icml2026

The last part of the welcome remarks is recognizing all the award winners. Check out the blog post for more details on the winners and the process! blog.icml.cc/2026/07/05/ann…

Come to the town hall Thursday to get your questions answered!

The PC Chairs are presenting the welcome remarks. #ICML2026 has over 20,000 in-person attendees!