TL;DR:  Salesforce Research and Mila announce AI for Global Climate Cooperation, a working group collaboration and competition to design negotiation protocols and climate agreements. We plan to coauthor a peer-reviewed scientific paper with top-performing teams; insights will be distilled into a policy brief shared with leading policymakers, informing future

December 21, 2021 The leading AI research conference, NeurIPS 2021, has recently wrapped up, spanning seven very full days, 2,344 accepted papers, eight invited talks, ten tutorials, and nearly 70 workshops. Though there was diverse and innovative thought leadership on display, I found myself drawn to the particular topics