This is the 10th in a series of goal reasoning workshops, with particular focus on decision-maker alignment. The workshop will be held October 12, 2025 in Atlanta, GA in conjunction with the 12th Annual Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference.
Purpose and Aims
Goal Reasoning is the topic of how to create AI systems that dynamically decide what should be done in response to changes in their environments, often by choosing goals or objectives. This is separate from but closely intertwined with Action Selection, the topic of how to meet objectives. While many AI systems assume that humans provide all objectives, this may be undesirable for a variety of reasons, for example:
Surprises may come up when an AI is out of communication
Humans may want maintenance systems to deal with new problems without supervision
Operators may not be trusted to give safe objectives
Speed of execution may require goals to be taken on faster than a human can respond
Goal reasoning researchers investigate how to achieve this level of dynamic responsiveness to the world.
In Decision-Maker Alignment, researchers investigate how to understand human decisions and replicate individual humans' decision-making capabilities. This is an important mechanism for ensuring trustworthy autonomy with humans off-the-loop. We see this as a mechanism for dynamically determining what should be done, and therefore is an important method for performing goal reasoning; at this workshop, we hope to explore the differences between how alignment and goal reasoning are pursued and to integrate our understanding of these topics.
Important Dates
August 22 29, 2025: Paper submission
September 12, 2025: Notifications
October 12, 2025: Workshop
Links
Papers should be 16 pages formatted according to the ACS Style. Papers and presentations will be available after the workshop via this web page. It is permitted to submit to both GRAW and ACS; if you co-submit to the Workshop and the main ACS conference, and your paper is accepted for presentation at the main conference, we'd like you to give a highlights talk at the Workshop.
Submissions should be made at https://openreview.net/group?id=cogsys.org/ACS/2025/Workshop/GRAW
Main Conference Link: http://www.cogsys.org/conference/2025/