Eric Medvet

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN INTERACTING WITH IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (ICE) • If you believe you are witnessing ICE activity, please call ICIRR's 24-Hour Family Support Hotline at 1-855-HELP-MY-FAMILY (1-855-435-7693). • If you find yourself interacting with an ICE officer in any location including your workplace, or out in the community, remember: • You have the right to remain silent when questioned or arrested by immigration officers • You should remain calm and keep your hands where the officer can see them. • You can state that you wish to speak with an attorney. • You are not required to • Discuss your immigration or citizenship status with the police, immigration agents, or other officials • Sign anything you do not understand. • If an officer knocks on your door at home: • You have the right to not open the door. • ICE officers must have a warrant signed by a judge to enter your home. ICE "warrants" are not signed by judges; they are ICE forms signed by ICE officers and they do not grant authority to enter your home without your consent • If you are outdoors and think you see immigration officers nearby: • You can move to a safe indoor space • If you are a U.S. citizen and feel safe to do so, you can record the activity with your phone or write down any relevant information about what you witness— ALWAYS being careful to not interfere or otherwise obstruct the operation • DO NOT: • Post unverified information on social media • Interfere with the investigation or otherwise put yourself in harm's way NEED SUPPORT? CALL ICIRR'S FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK HOTLINE: 1-855-435-7693

There are reports of ICE activity on the north side of Chicago happening now.

Please share so people in the area can be aware and take precautions.

If you’re in the area please come by our office at 7016 N Clark St for ICE whistles.

We protect each other. Chinga la migra.

This work comes from a very positive and very intensive interaction of diverse scientists at the #alice workshop. Kudos to the authors and to the workshop organizers, who ignited this (and others) fruitful research collaborations.

“A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule Some with “high blast radius”

“A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule
@garymarcus.bsky.social

“…I warned that maintaining GenAI code would be harder than writing code with GenAI … FT: ‘Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages’…”

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

BREAKING: For the first time in 35 years the Ig Nobel ceremony will move to Europe. "There are no immediate plans to return the ceremony to the US."
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Food for thought for conference steering committees.

All previous editions have been a success, don't miss this one! #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.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

2026 ISAL Award Nominations Below is a form for you to nominate individuals, papers, or project for awards from the International Society for Artificial Life. Award recipients will be chosen by an impartial committee of members...

Nominate people you admire for the ISAL awards!

There are 7 categories you can nominate people for; you can also nominate yourself if you've done something awesome relevant to the categories.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#ALife

Picture 1: doctor looking at chart tells patient, "Your body has run out of magnesium." Picture 2: patient replies with a smile, "0mg"

The #ALife Newsletter is out!
We are starting to integrate your feedback and as a result, this edition has an interview, paper summaries, and project introductions.

Go have a look:

alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...

New preprint with Léo Pio-Lopez:
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

"Multi-Scale Longevity: Defeating Aging from Cells to Embodied Human Minds, and the Future of the Species"

a broader view of longevity research.

Yesterday I had the privilege to give a talk at the event MOSAICO talks 2026. The topic was "invisible challenges", I decided to discuss professional deskilling due to AI. A very nice event, organised in the wonderful Aula Baratto within the main building of Ca' Foscari University

Come una sola persona ha ottenuto il controllo di 7mila robot aspirapolvere Un ingegnere informatico voleva controllare il proprio con un joypad, ma una falla di sicurezza gli ha aperto un mondo

Un ingegnere informatico voleva solo controllare il suo robot aspirapolvere con un joypad, ma si è ritrovato ad avere accesso a circa settemila altri robot sparpagliati in giro per il mondo

ilpost.link/npWyujrcVi

‘A.I. Literacy’ Is the New Drivers’ Ed at This Newark School Teachers say they want to equip high school students to drive artificial intelligence, rather than be mere passengers steered by chatbots.

Schools across the U.S. are hustling to introduce a new subject: A.I. literacy. These lessons are becoming more common as a debate has exploded over whether chatbots are likely to improve — or doom — education.

Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents - npj Complexity npj Complexity - Promoting cooperation in the public goods game using artificial intelligent agents

Can AI be programmed to make others play nice? Evolutionary Game Theory says you can! But not how you might think. Paper out at npj Complexity www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Blog post about the paper: adamilab.blogspot.com/2024/12/can-...

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.

I really love the format of the workshop! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 to the organizers and the participants!

Buon #Natale!

Our paper "ARC-NCA: Towards Developmental Solutions to the Abstraction & Reasoning Corpus" has been awarded a Runner-Up #ARCprize

Congrats team: E. Guichard, F. Reimers, M. Kvalsund, M. Lepperød, & me

Thanks F. Chollet, G. Kamradt, M. Knoop!

Paper: etimush.github.io/ARC_NCA/

Da #SIP a #Telecom…adesso è tutto #TIM…ma se li avete usati tutti e quattro…allora siete tutti ex giovincelli come il sottoscritto?!

ALICE workshop guest speakers

This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑‍🔬

- Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social
- Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social
- Alexander Mordvintsev
- Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social
- Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social
- Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social
- Susan Stepney

Come learn about UCLA research projects that have been suspended under the Trump administration, and why they matter for all of us.

🧪 Wednesday, Sept 10 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
📍 Northwest corner of Westwood & Le Conte

Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures:
Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)!

Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life.

Judges and prizes to be announced soon.
⬇️ ⬇️

PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding Department of Computer Science Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD f

🏹 Job alert: PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding at the University of Copenhagen

📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Oct 31
🔗 https://bit.ly/4g5sZ0Q

And here are the accepted contributions to the Special Session #TheDistributedCiphers at @alife2025.bsky.social:

Details: www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Distri...

See you in Kyoto 🇯🇵

"A Neural Cellular Automaton Model of Memory Transfer" by Etienne Guichard and Stefano Nichele. YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

Presentation of our work on "NCAs for memory transfer + application to ARC-AGI", given at the computational series of the #Levin Lab at Tufts & Harvard Universities.

Thanks M. Levin for the kind invitation & special thanks to Etienne for presenting our work.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyc0...

Kenichi Morita: Reversible world of cellular automata - Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines -

New book review, freely available in GPEM:

“Reversible world of cellular automata” by Kenichi Morita, reviewed by Tomas Rokicki

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

E poi "scovaze" ovunque a bordo strada. Non un paio di cartacce, ma un continuo di bottiglie (direi una al metro, almeno), soprattutto di birra, e altri residui. Una cosa sistematica, e vergognosa. Per chilometri.

Alla fine di una discesa di campagna, c'erano tre dossi perpendicolari alla marcia, con dislivello di 30cm almeno. Sono riuscito a stare in piedi, ma si è rotto il portapacchi. Tutte le strade che non fossero almeno una provinciale erano terribili.

81 km in poco meno di 7h, 670m di guadagno altitudine (serve contare tutti i buchi...).