Cross-AI Frontier Workshop on Self-Evolving AI Safety (SEAS 2026) will be held virtually on Dec. 14-16, 2026 in the Cross-AI Symposium 2026 (https://cross-ai.io/conference/2027/preconf/).

Authors are encouraged to select their preferred venue when submitting their papers/posters/demos. Please visit workshop webpage for more details and submission instructions.

________________________________________
Introduction

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing toward increasingly autonomous agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, tool use, adaptation, self-improvement, and coordination with other agents. These capabilities create transformative opportunities while raising a fundamental safety challenge: our ability to understand, evaluate, and control AI systems must keep pace with their increasing autonomy and capability.

This challenge is especially acute for self-evolving, self-recursive, and collective AI agents. Agents that can modify their operation, acquire new capabilities, or coordinate with other agents may exhibit emergent behaviors, unexpected interactions, and capability growth that are difficult to anticipate or control. Recent incidents involving frontier agents crossing intended security or authorization boundaries further demonstrate the need for effective mechanisms to prevent unauthorized actions, enforce safety constraints, detect failures, and enable reliable intervention.

The central premise of this workshop is that AI safety must advance alongside AI capability. Increasingly powerful agents must remain controllable, secure, verifiable, and accountable to humans, including as they adapt, interact, and evolve. Achieving this requires connecting fundamental scientific advances with practical engineering, deployment experience, and effective governance.

The workshop brings together academia, industry, and government to address frontier AI safety as a shared scientific, technical, operational, and societal challenge. We welcome contributions spanning both fundamental research and practical solutions, with emphasis on approaches that translate research into measurable, deployable, and enforceable safety mechanisms for increasingly autonomous agents.

This open call for papers invites original contributions on the theory, methods, architectures, evaluation, and practical deployment of safe agentic systems. Submissions may address technical, conceptual, empirical, or applied research, including, but not limited to, the following areas.
________________________________________
Core Tracks

1. Self-Evolving AI
2. Collective Intelligence
3. Control & Alignment
4. Agent Security & Containment
5. Safety Evaluation
6. Oversight & Verification
7. Safe Deployment & Governance
8. Research-to-Practice
________________________________________
Topics & Important Dates (AoE)

Please visit the workshop website:
https://www.cross-ai.io/conference/2027/preconf/seas-2026/
________________________________________
Submission

Please follow the workshop website to submit papers/posters/demos/lightning talks. Accepted full/short/poster/demo papers will be published in the indexed proceedings.