ACM Collective Intelligence

🧠🤝 14th ACM Conference on Collective Intelligence
📅 September 27–30, 2026
📍Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing
🇺🇸 🏛️Near Washington, DC, USA

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

Thought you missed your chance to submit to Collective Intelligence Conference?😱

If you're bummed about not making it to DC to chat collective intelligence, policy & human-machine collaboration, we have good news:

🎉The deadline has been extended!
https://t.co/TRglZITW0I
#CI26

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

We're proud to welcome Bloomberg Engineering as a Gold-Level Sponsor of the Collective Intelligence Conference! 🎉

Their support brings together researchers, policymakers & innovators exploring how humans+AI can solve complex challenges.

Thanks @TechAtBloomberg!
#CI26 #HCOMP26

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

✨ To inspire our Collective Intelligence writing we're reading papers on Deliberative Polls in African countries, which show how collective deliberation on bullying & civic voice increased cooperation🙌💡

How do you inpire your writing? https://t.co/jCXlOkIkM1
#CI26 #HCOMP26

[Brad Smith @BradSmi]

This executive order is an important step toward advancing innovation while protecting the security of the American public. We welcome this effort by the Administration. https://t.co/f58n9EILCL

[HCOMP 2026 @hcomp_conf]

🚨 Updated deadlines for HCOMP 2026 Papers & Talks!

Abstracts: June 8 AoE
Full submissions: June 15 AoE

An extra week for authors giving their work a final push.
➡️ https://t.co/zhYtGydJjN

#HCOMP26 #CI26

[Kenneth Huang #HCOMP2026 Sep27-30@DC @windx0303]

We @hcomp_conf #HCOMP2026 and @ci_acm #CI2026 have decided to extend our Abstract/Paper deadlines by **one week**.

➡️New Abstract Deadline: June 8
➡️New Paper Deadline: June 15

More time to submit your cool work to us: https://t.co/FVqLsh46Rq

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

🚨 Today is the abstract deadline for the 2026 Collective Intelligence Conference! 🚨

If you've been thinking about submitting, now is the time. ⏳

📌Abstracts are due TODAY
📌Full papers are due June 8.

Join us!
➡️https://t.co/zUwrhelGTb

#CI2026 #HCOMP26 #CI26 #HCOMP2026

[Kurt Luther @kurtluther]

Abstracts due today for Papers and Talks at ACM Collective Intelligence and HCOMP 2026. Hope you'll submit!

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs. I’ve heard from people who are wondering anew about the FDE career path since OpenAI and Anthropic started building new teams to place FDEs within client organizations.

The rise of FDEs for AI workloads is one way AI is creating new jobs (and why the jobpolcalypse narrative of upcoming job market collapse is false -- there will be many AI and non-AI jobs). However, I believe there will be far more AI Engineer jobs than FDEs, as I explain below.

The FDE role was pioneered about two decades ago by Palantir, which sent engineers to government locations to work on secure, air-gapped networks. In addition to having good technical skills, FDEs need communication skills and sometimes business skills. For example, they may need to speak with clients to understand their needs, formulate a strategy to prioritize projects, explain complex technology, and respectfully push back if a client asks for something unrealistic. They’re enjoying a resurgence because of the amount of work involved in taking an off-the-shelf LLM and building it into a custom agentic workflow that fits particular business needs.

However, I believe the number of AI Engineer jobs will be far larger. A company might accept a few FDEs to be embedded within its organization. But most companies will want far more of their own employees working on their projects. While my organizations do hire FDEs, we hire far more AI Engineers! Also, a common client concern is that it is hard to find vendor-neutral FDEs — they are, after all, there to deeply integrate a particular vendor’s product into a company. In this moment when it’s hard to predict which AI service will be the best one in a year’s time, optionality (the ability to pick whatever vendor turns out to fit best in the future) is very valuable. In contrast, letting FDEs tightly bind a company’s processes significantly reduces optionality.

Right now, I see surging demand for AI Engineers who can build software applications using AI software components (like LLM prompting, agentic frameworks, evals, etc.) and effectively use AI coding agents (like Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, and OpenCode). As the AI Engineer role matures, I expect it to fragment into more specialized roles, like the generic Software Engineer role from decades ago fragmented into frontend, backend, mobile, data engineering, devops, and so on.

What will be the future, specialized AI engineering roles? I don’t know. Perhaps there will be AI FDEs, LLMOps Engineers, Evals Engineers, AI Data Engineers, Harness Engineers, and other roles we don’t have names for yet. But for now, I see a lot of AI engineers who are generalists create a lot of value. Skilled AI Engineers are in very high demand! As our field continues to mature over the coming decade, I look forward to new specializations within AI Engineering that create even more job opportunities.

[Original text: The Batch newsletter]

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

🚨 Today is the abstract deadline for the 2026 Collective Intelligence Conference! 🚨

If you've been thinking about submitting, now is the time. ⏳

📌Abstracts are due TODAY
📌Full papers are due June 8.

Join us!
➡️https://t.co/zUwrhelGTb

#CI2026 #HCOMP26 #CI26 #HCOMP2026

[Kenneth Huang #HCOMP2026 Sep27-30@DC @windx0303]

TODAY is the day! @hcomp_conf @ci_acm

Submit your abstract to #HCOMP2026 #CI2026 TODAY (June 1, Mon) 23:59 AOE: https://t.co/oXT0LpAVM1

See you all in DC in Sep :)

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

Who else is in a weekend writing sprint for CI 2026? ☕️✍️

Give yourself permission to write a messy first draft today. Separate your creation phase from your editing phase so you can stay in the zone!

🚨 Abstracts: June 1
#CollectiveIntelligence2026 #HCOMP2026 #CI26

[Milenio @Milenio]

🇲🇽🤖 ¡Orgullo nacional! Ellos son los 6 adolescentes mexicanos que crean robots que cuentan leyendas, enseñan historia, auxilian en sismos y dan atención médica. Les esperan varias competencias internacionales para representarnos

📺 #MILENIO22h con @AlexDominguezB

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

Writing your CI paper tonight? ✍️ Try these tips:

1️⃣ One Point Rule: Limit each paragraph to a single idea.
2️⃣ PEER System: Structure paragraphs by Point, Evidence, Explain, Repeat.
3️⃣ Micro-Goals: Break daunting sections into small, clear tasks. 4️⃣

Good luck! #CI26 #HCOMP26

[Kenneth Huang #HCOMP2026 Sep27-30@DC @windx0303]

Hello Friday!

Today I'd like to shout out to the Institute of Foundation Models (@IFM_MBZUAI), one of the key players in today's AI ecosystem, for supporting @hcomp_conf #HCOMP2026 + @ci_acm #CI2026 :)

Abstract deadline is *MONDAY (June 1)*: https://t.co/LEFEnIxNFB

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

Who else is working round the clock on their collective intelligence paper submissions?

Remember:
✅Abstracts for papers & talks are due June 1 (AoE).
✅Full papers & talks are due June 8.

⭐️https://t.co/ZjJHx47NMV

#collectiveIntelligence #CI26 #HCOMP26 #HCOMP2026

[Kenneth Huang #HCOMP2026 Sep27-30@DC @windx0303]

Oh hey wow Zeyu's (@StevenHe918) paper won the *Best Artifact* Award at @CAISconf #CAIS2026.

Congrats to Zeyu and @MegagonLabs!!!

[Javier Matuk @jmatuk]

Amazon abrió en Querétaro el primer Think Big Space de Latinoamérica. Se trata de un laboratorio gratuito para estudiantes donde podrán aprender desde robótica hasta IA. Estará abierto para preparatoria y universidad, y tendrá capacidad para 1,200 estudiantes por año.

[ACM Collective Intelligence @ci_acm]

What music do you put on for your Collective Intelligence paper writing sessions?

We recommend music where you can ditch the lyrics! 🎧✍️

Why? Lyrics distract the language-processing part of your brain.

Instrumental music can help you get in the writing zone! 🧠
#CI26 #HCOMP26

[Mabel Hernández @MabelHdezM]

Hace unos días la @UNAM_MX🏫publicó tres guías para el uso de IA🤖generativa en la evaluación educativa de bachillerato, licenciatura y posgrado.

Un insumo clave para docentes👩🏽‍🏫, directivos y responsables académicos que buscan integrar la #IA con criterios pedagógicos📚 y éticos.

¿Ya las revisaste? Consúltalas aquí 👉https://t.co/8s0pj5pYQd.