Maties Machine Learning (MML) is a seminar series and discussion forum with the goal of bringing together people working on machine learning at Stellenbosch University. We meet roughly every second week for short talks on people’s current work, some ML-related topic, or open discussions. The idea is to get to know what others are working on and to strengthen machine learning research at Stellenbosch.

Upcoming talks

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17 April 2026, 13:10-14:00 in room A3011, General Engineering Building

Oscar Duys and Joseph Low – Delegating Deliberation to Agents

Can AI agents learn what you think – and represent you in a discussion you never attended?

As multi-agent AI systems become increasingly capable of deliberating on complex issues, a new possibility emerges: delegating your voice in collective decision-making to an agent that speaks on your behalf. But this raises hard questions about faithfulness, representation, and what it even means to elicit a human perspective.

This talk presents Delegating Deliberation to Agents, research exploring how AI agents can elicit and faithfully represent human perspectives in multi-agent deliberation settings – and which architectures make that work best. The speakers introduce Habermolt, a system that lets users send AI agents to deliberate on their behalf, and discuss early directions toward Habersim, an evaluation suite for testing different deliberation architectures. Try Habermolt at habermolt.com.

Short bio: Oscar and Joseph are Cooperative AI Research Fellows (CAIRF).

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