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).
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.
1. Digital Curtains Descending? Lessons from TikTok v. Garland for Europe
Davide Clementi (University of Macerata and Roma Tre University)
2. The Future of Cyber Capabilities: Emerging Techniques for Digital Influence and Manipulation
Pranjal Saraswat (Central University of Gujarat)
3. The Demand for Bullshit Under American and European Law
Jane Bambauer (University of Florida)
4. Gaming the System: Extremist Strategies in Immersive Virtual Universes
Didier Danet (GEODE Group - Paris 8 University)
5. Binary Selves: How the Digital Paradigm and AI Amplify the Identity Trap and Societal Fragmentation
Élie Chevignard (CEA, Université Paris Saclay)
6. Misinformation, Influence, and Algorithmic Bias: The Role of High-Status Users in Misinformation Spread
Soo Young Bae (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
David DeFranza (University College Dublin)
7. Building Trust and Developing Value between Creative Rightsholders and GenAI through Tokenised Licensing and Content Authenticity Tools
Chris Elsden (University of Edinburgh)
Caterina Moruzzi (University of Edinburgh)
Burkhard Schafer (University of Edinburgh)
Frances Liddell (University of Edinburgh)
Ella Tallyn (University of Edinburgh)
Evan Morgan (University of Edinburgh)
Billy Dixon (University of Edinburgh)
Kar Balan (University of Surrey)
John Collomosse (University of Surrey)
8. From Black Box to Glass Box: Leveraging Blockchain to Audit AI Systems Through Multistakeholder Participation
Roberto Almeida (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Lucas Latini (Dublin City University)
9. The Speech Act Gap and Counterspeech
Isaac Taylor (Stockholm University)
10. AI, Digital Democracy, and the crisis of social cohesion: Rebuilding political trust
Adrien Tallent (Sorbonne University)
11. AI as Bureaucratic Decision-Making
Carina Prunkl (Utrecht University; University of Oxford)
12. Guarding the Guardians: A Governance Framework to Detect and Prevent Explainability Manipulation in XAI Systems
Sahaj Vaidya (CivicDataLab)
13. AI with Heart: A Joy-Centered Framework for Ethical AI Development & Implementation
Desmond Patton (University of Pennsylvania)
Shana Kleiner (University of Pennsylvania)
Nicholas Deas (Columbia University)
Jessi Grieser (University of Michigan)
James Shepard (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
Blake Vente (Columbia University)
Kathleen McKeown (Columbia University)
14. Who Controls the Narrative? The Dual Role of Contributors and Amplifiers in Online Activism
Soo Young Bae (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
David DeFranza (University College Dublin)
15. Bootstrapping Trust in Web3 from Publicly-Verifiable Internet Data
Yuan Lu (Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Qiang Tang (The University of Sydney)
16. Understanding China’s AI-Generated Content Labelling Mandate: Towards a new mode of Algorithmic Stewardship?
Wenlong Li (Aston University)
17. Who Owns the Words? Copyright, AI Prompts, and the Governance of Digital Authorship
Jaqueline Simas de Oliveira (Fundação Getulio Vargas - Law School - RJ)
18. The Trust Paradox: How Social AI Is Rewiring Human Connection and Social Cohesion
Alva Markelius (University of Cambridge)
Priscila Chaves (Cargill)
Sarah W. Spencer (UK Government)
Joahna Kuiper (HiirAI)
19. A Socioinformatic Analysis of Community-based Fact-Checking: Why Community Notes is not as effective as X claims
Katharina Zweig (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
Julian Pelloth (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
Lena Pölzer (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau)
20. From disinformation dissection to ideological conflation: leveraging semantic embeddings and stochastic processes for detection of behavioral drifts among content-creators
Clément BENESSE (Opsci.ai)
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)
Top 10 contributing universities
1. University of Edinburgh
2. Fundação Getulio Vargas
3. Harvard University
4. Universitas Airlangga
5. University of Oxford
6. Utrecht University
7. George Washington University
8. Université Bordeaux Montaigne
9. Boston University
10. Carnegie Mellon University
Top 5 contributing organisations
ENIA
Humane Intelligence
UK Governement
Brazilian Supreme Court
Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies
Top 5 contributing companies
Beink Dream
Airbus
Salesforce
Cargill
Hugging Face
