The program listed below is tentative and may be updated.

08:30 - 08:45 Opening Remarks
08:45 - 09:25 Invited talk: Anna Harutyunyan - Art of decision, science of nondoing
09:25 - 10:05 Invited talk: Alison Gopnik - Empowerment as causal learning, causal learning as empowerment: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning
10:05 - 10:20 Contributed talk: OMNI-EPIC: Open-endedness via models of human notions of interestingness with environments programmed in code
10:20 - 11:20 Break & Posters
11:20 - 11:35 Contributed talk: Episodic novelty through temporal distance
11:35 - 12:15 Invited talk: Pierluca D'Oro - AI-assisted agent design with large language models
12:15 - 13:25 Lunch + Mentorship Session
13:25 - 14:05 Invited talk: Kou Murayama - Knowledge as a sustainable source of internal rewards: How curiosity transforms into enduring interest
14:05 - 14:45 Invited talk: Romy Frömer - Hidden knobs: Mechanisms of flexible, goal-directed decision-making
14:45 - 15:00 Contributed talk: A single goal is all you need
15:00 - 16:00 Break & Posters
16:00 - 16:40 Invited talk: Ted Chiang - Speculations on educating artificial lifeforms
16:45 - 17:25 Panel Discussion - Moderated by Brian Christian
17:25 - 17:30 Closing Remarks