Researchers in the first category, Research in AI, publish at AI conferences with technical contributions. These conference papers may focus on:
- Developing new AI methods to solve new types of problems.
- Improving existing AI methods to perform better on benchmarks and/or handle new categories of special cases. AI benchmarks are used to better understand capabilities and limitations, driving the development of new or improved AI techniques.
Researchers in the category Research on AI study the relationship between AI and other fields such as psychology, security, law, and more.
Researchers in the category Research with AI use AI as a tool in their research within fields outside of AI, for example in medicine or planning.
This categorisation is not equally applicable to all researchers. For example, some may only partially fit into a category (or into several categories) depending on perspective. There can also be a challenge to choose lists for interdisciplinary researchers. Therefore, the lists should be seen as a simplified division. Many researchers also appear in multiple categories.
