The Frontier Workshop on Embodiment and AI on AIs understand

The Frontier Workshop on Embodiment and AI

Research workshop on embodied AI, AI safety, and internal-state models, held at AIAS+ 2026 in San Francisco.

These models lack bodily experience, understanding the world largely through statistical associations. To advance embodiment in artificial intelligence and achieve genuine world comprehension, we posit that models must move beyond token associations toward "felt" cognition supported by integrated internal and external world models.

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The Frontier Workshop on Embodiment and AI, “Embodiment in Multimodal Large Language Models,” AIAS+ 2026 workshop page. The page identifies the workshop date as Saturday, November 7, 2026 and presents this text in the workshop’s collective first-person description of current multimodal LLMs.

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AI Verified The quote expressly says current MLLMs lack bodily experience and need to move beyond token associations to achieve genuine world comprehension; it directly rejects the claim that AIs understand. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Against is correct: the quote says current MLLMs lack bodily experience and genuine world comprehension, so it opposes the statement “AIs understand.” · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The official workshop page identifies The Frontier Workshop on Embodiment and AI and its Nov. 7, 2026 workshop date; it reproduces this wording verbatim in its collective first-person description. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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