Welcome to AI Matters 9(2).

Welcome to the second issue of this year's AI Matters Newsletter. As usual, we will start the issue with a conference report by Louise A. Dennis. Following it, we are very excited to present three award-winning or candidacy papers by Wijmans et al. (ICLR 2023 Outstanding Paper), Ma et al. (SIGKDD 2022 Best Paper), and Li, Liu, and Wu (CVPR 2023, Award Candidate). The papers cover a range of intriguing topics, such as the formation of spatial memory in navigation agents, causal modeling with hypergraphs, and full-body motion estimation from egocentric videos. Finally, we end this issue by a collection of "blue sky" ideas presented in the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program at EAAI 2023, summarized by Guerzhoy et al.