ICBINB-BIO: Failure Modes of AI in Biology at NeurIPS 2026
| When | Dec 11, 2026 |
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| Where | Sydney, Australia |
| Format | in-person |
| Status | scheduled |
The I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better biology workshop will bring machine-learning and life-science researchers together in Sydney on December 11, 2026, to examine where AI fails beyond benchmarks. Topics include distribution shift, confounded supervision, uncertainty, causal inference and the limits of foundation and agentic models. The full-day, in-person programme includes invited talks, spotlights, posters and a panel. Paper submissions are closed; the organizer lists November 11 as the tentative camera-ready and poster deadline. The organizer labels the schedule “Australia time” without an explicit UTC offset.
Submission deadline: Paper submission closed September 2, 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE. Camera-ready and poster deadline November 11, 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE (tentative)..
Dates and sessions
Dec 11, 2026
- 08:50–09:00 — Opening talk
- 09:00–09:30 — Invited talk 1
- 09:30–10:00 — Invited talk 2
- 10:00–10:30 — Invited talk 3
- 10:30–10:45 — Coffee break
- 10:45–11:30 — Spotlights 1–3
- 11:30–12:45 — Poster session
- 12:45–13:30 — Lunch break
- 13:30–15:00 — Invited talks 4–6
- 15:00–15:15 — Coffee break
- 15:15–16:00 — Spotlights 4–6
- 16:00–16:45 — Panel discussion
- 16:45–17:00 — Closing
| Event website | ICBINB-BIO organizers |
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