Papers & statistics
Selection process
The editorial committee reviewed all submissions received by March 15th, following rigorous double-blind review standards. The editorial committee was chaired by Dr Hubert Etienne (Quintessence AI) and Dr Thomas Souverain (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and composed of Prof Joshua Tucker (New York University), Dr Alexei Grinbaum (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), Prof Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh), and Dr Herbert Lin (Stanford University).
Selected papers
The extended abstracts below were selected to be presented at the conference and the authors were invited to have the full version of their paper published in the conference’s proceedings.
Digital Curtains Descending? Lessons from TikTok v. Garland for Europe
The Future of Cyber Capabilities: Emerging Techniques for Digital Influence and Manipulation
The Demand for Bullshit Under American and European Law
Gaming the System: Extremist Strategies in Immersive Virtual Universes
Binary Selves: How the Digital Paradigm and AI Amplify the Identity Trap and Societal Fragmentation
Misinformation, Influence, and Algorithmic Bias: The Role of High-Status Users in Misinformation Spread
Building Trust and Developing Value between Creative Rightsholders and GenAI through Tokenised Licensing and Content Authenticity Tools
From Black Box to Glass Box: Leveraging Blockchain to Audit AI Systems Through Multistakeholder Participation
The Speech Act Gap and Counterspeech
AI, Digital Democracy, and the crisis of social cohesion: Rebuilding political trust
AI as Bureaucratic Decision-Making
Guarding the Guardians: A Governance Framework to Detect and Prevent Explainability Manipulation in XAI Systems
AI with Heart: A Joy-Centered Framework for Ethical AI Development & Implementation
Who Controls the Narrative? The Dual Role of Contributors and Amplifiers in Online Activism
Bootstrapping Trust in Web3 from Publicly-Verifiable Internet Data
Understanding China’s AI-Generated Content Labelling Mandate: Towards a new mode of Algorithmic Stewardship?
Who Owns the Words? Copyright, AI Prompts, and the Governance of Digital Authorship
The Trust Paradox: How Social AI Is Rewiring Human Connection and Social Cohesion
A Socioinformatic Analysis of Community-based Fact-Checking: Why Community Notes is not as effective as X claims
From disinformation dissection to ideological conflation: leveraging semantic embeddings and stochastic processes for detection of behavioral drifts among content-creators
Statistics
PCAIDE 2025 received contributions from leading institutions in 38 countries. With an acceptance rate of 15%, it tends to be more selective than comparable conferences (e.g., 38% for AIES and 24% for FAccT)
| Universities | 86% |
|---|---|
| NGOs | 6% |
| Corporates | 5% |
| GOs | 2% |
| USA | 23% | |
|---|---|---|
| France | 14% | |
| Great Britain | 9% | |
| India | 7% | |
| Brazil | 6% | |
| Italy | 6% | |
| Indonesia | 4% | |
| Netherlands | 4% | |
| Canada | 3% | |
| Germany | 3% | |
| Australia | 2% | |
| Other countries | 19% | 27 other countries |
Top 10 contributing universities
- University of Edinburgh
- Fundação Getulio Vargas
- Harvard University
- Universitas Airlangga
- University of Oxford
- Utrecht University
- George Washington University
- Université Bordeaux Montaigne
- Boston University
- Carnegie Mellon University
Top 5 contributing organisations
- ENIA
- Humane Intelligence
- UK Government
- Brazilian Supreme Court
- Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies
Top contributing companies
- Beink Dream
- Airbus
- Cargill
- Hugging Face