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Mission-Aligned Learning-Informed Control of Autonomous Systems: Formulation and Foundations
Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Gustav Sir, Akhil Anand, Sebastien Gros, Haozhe Tian, Homayoun Hamedmoghadam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04356

Mission-Aligned Learning-Informed Control of Autonomous Systems: Formulation and Foundations
Research, innovation and practical capital investment have been increasing rapidly toward the realization of autonomous physical agents. This includes industrial and service robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, embedded control devices, and a number of other realizations of cybernetic/mechatronic implementations of intelligent autonomous devices. In this paper, we consider a stylized version of robotic care, which would normally involve a two-level Reinforcement Learning procedure that trains a po…

#HotTake:
Liberalism is a syncretic religion where the highest deity is the State and all other deities are subject to it. Liberalism asserts this distinction by classifying political systems as deriving from "natural law" and religions as faith systems. Classical liberalism divided the world into "primitive" beliefs and "enlightened" beliefs. Atheistic anarchism aligns with this distinction by opposing the state and capitalism through logic, rather than asserting that the state and capitalism are themselves systems of faith. Atheistic anarchism further reinforces the narrative of the liberal state by aligning with the liberal understanding of religion as a "primitive" institution.
Graeber et al pointed out the connections between property rights as a form of fedishism (magic) and the evolution of currency, debt, taxes, and the state from temples.

Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia
Beatriz Severes, Ana O. Henriques, Rory Clark, Paulo Bala, Anna Carter, Rua Mae Williams, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01690

Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia
Academic well-being is deeply influenced by peer-support networks, yet they remain informal, inequitable, and unsustainable, often relying on personal connections and social capital rather than structured, inclusive systems. Additionally, institutional well-being responses frequently focus on student populations, neglecting the emotional labour of faculty and staff, reinforcing an exclusionary academic culture. Drawing on HCI methodologies, participatory design, and care ethics, this workshop w…

HERAKLES: Hierarchical Skill Compilation for Open-ended LLM Agents
Thomas Carta, Cl\'ement Romac, Loris Gaven, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Olivier Sigaud, Sylvain Lamprier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14751

HERAKLES: Hierarchical Skill Compilation for Open-ended LLM Agents
Open-ended AI agents need to be able to learn efficiently goals of increasing complexity, abstraction and heterogeneity over their lifetime. Beyond sampling efficiently their own goals, autotelic agents specifically need to be able to keep the growing complexity of goals under control, limiting the associated growth in sample and computational complexity. To adress this challenge, recent approaches have leveraged hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) and language, capitalizing on its compos…