1、AAAI 2025 PRESIDENTIAL PANEL ON THEPublished March 2025Future of AI Research2Published March 2025AAAI 2025 PRESIDENTIAL PANEL ON THEFuture of AI ResearchTable of Contents6 Introduction8 Panel Members&Contributors10 AI Reasoning14 AI Factuality&Trustworthiness18 AI Agents22 AI Evaluation26 AI Ethics&

2、Safety32 Embodied AI36 AI&Cognitive Science40 Hardware&AI 44 AI for Social Good48 AI&Sustainability 54 AI for Scientific Discovery58 Artificial General Intelligence(AGI)64 AI Perception vs.Reality68 Diversity of AI Research Approaches72 Research Beyond the AI Research Community76 Role of Academia80

3、Geopolitical Aspects&Implications of AI6IntroductionAs AI capabilities evolve rapidly,AI research is also undergoing a fast and significant transformation along many dimensions,including its topics,its methods,the research community,and the working environment.Topics such as AI reasoning and agentic

4、 AI have been studied for decades but now have an expanded scope in light of current AI capabilities and limitations.AI ethics and safety,AI for social good,and sustainable AI have become central themes in all major AI conferences.Moreover,research on AI algorithms and software systems is becoming i

5、ncreasingly tied to substantial amounts of dedicated AI hardware,notably GPUs,which leads to AI architecture co-creation,in a way that is more prominent now than over the last 3 decades.Related to this shift,more and more AI researchers work in corporate environments,where the necessary hardware and

6、 other resources are more easily available,compared to academia,questioning the roles of academic AI research,student retention,and faculty recruiting.The pervasive use of AI in our daily lives and its impact on people,society,and the environment makes AI a socio-technical field of study,thus highli