Papers & statistics
Selection process
The editorial committee reviewed all submissions received by December 20th, 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 Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Baylor College of Medicine), Prof Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University), Dr Sasha Luccioni (Hugging Face), Dr Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris).
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.
Hybrid Intention and Augmented Agency: Allocation of Criminal Culpability in Neuroprosthetic Control
Epistemically-Aware AI
Regulating the Unseen: AI Accountability in UK Healthcare Sector
Setting boundaries: Defining “neurodata” and the implications for AI policy and Regulation
Are we going towards a Human-AI Coevolution? A multi-leveled framework to study the impact of human-AIinteraction on societal behaviors
Moral Competence Before Moral Content: Why AI Systems Lack the Prerequisites for Value Alignment
Measuring AI Accountability Through Argumentation Analysis: Can Model Reasoning Withstand Scrutiny
Children’s Rights, Metacognition, and AI Literacy: A Conceptual Frameworks
Irrationality, Loops, and Affective Personalization in Human AI Interaction
Generative AI as a Third Agent: Rethinking Academic Work and Principal AI Agent Dynamics in Higher Education
Reconfiguring Creative Labour: Generative AI, Work Practices, and the Ethics of Distributed Agency
From Extraction to Exchange: A Data Streaming Framework for Equitable AI Content Economics
The Fabricated Front: A Typology of GenAI Opacity Mechanisms at Work
Environmental Impacts of Data Centers and Criminal Law Responses: A Comparative Perspective
Toward a Self-Organizing Literature Review: An Application to the Financial Impacts of Physical Climate Risks
AI, Democracy and environmental justice in Africa
Will AI Help Solve Climate Change? Assessing the Evidence
Selected posters
Authority Bias Under Pressure: How Professional Status Shapes AI Summarization of Conflicting Clinical Recommendations
Medical Agents and Public Health Dilemmas: Responsibility, Risk, and Decision-Making under AI Assistance
Empowering Patients with DIY Ethics for DIY Health Technologies
From Tool to Companion: How Users Negotiate Trust, Dependency, and Critical Engagement with LLMs
“I’m Here for You”: An Exploratory Multiple-Case Study of Deceptive Empathy and Crisis-Resource Misalignment in LLM Responses to Passive Suicidal Ideation
Re-Archiving Social Interactions: AI, Creativity, and Cultural Memory in the South Asian
From Rejection to Regulation: Mapping the Landscape of AI Resistance
Enforceability by Design: Preventing AI Dependency and Preserving Critical Thinking in Human-AI Interaction
Care-Full Alignment: Socio-Technical Design, User Attachment, and Ethics of Care in AI Chatbots
The Mirror That Talks Back: Young Men’s Gendered Narratives of Joy & AI-Mediated Well-being
From Artificial Subjectivity to Synthetic Sociality: How AI Systems Enter Human Meaning-Making
From Fear to Fluency: Cultivating AI Confidence and Socio-Economic Wellbeing in the Workforce
Human-Robot Collaboration in the Workplace Transformation: Ethical, Legal, Labour and Technological Challenges
FairPath: Transparent Group-Aware Selection with Explicit Efficiency-Fairness Guarantees
Doing AI Ethics at Work: Semantic Translation and Ethical Decision-Making in Development Teams
Synthetic Data and Digital Twins for Physical AI Systems: Accountability under Data Scarcity
Embedding Environmental Externalities into EU Competition Law: AI, Big Tech and the Energy Transition
A comparative ethical typology for mapping existing and emerging ethical themes in the field of autonomous environmental robotics
The environmental costs of AI expansion : a comparative study of data center governance in Brazil’s PL 2338/2023 and the EU AI Act
Counting Threads and Teraflops: Mapping the Environmental Footprint of AI-Driven Fashion Supply Chains
Getting Intelligent about Intelligence: New Foundations for Artificial Intelligence Research
Statistics
PCAIDE 2026 received contributions from leading institutions in 51 countries. With an acceptance rate of 10%, it tends to be more selective than comparable conferences (e.g., 38% for AIES and 24% for FAccT).
| Universities | 75% |
|---|---|
| NGOs | 13% |
| Corporates | 11% |
| GOs | 2% |
| France | 16% | |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 14% | |
| Italy | 12% | |
| Great Britain | 9% | |
| Netherlands | 8% | |
| Saudi Arabia | 5% | |
| India | 4% | |
| Canada | 3% | |
| Belgium | 2% | |
| Nigeria | 2% | |
| Other countries | 25% | 41 other countries |
Top 10 contributing universities
- King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- University of Pennsylvania
- ENS Paris
- University of Florence
- Oregon State University
- University of Cambridge
- University of Technology Nuremberg
- University of Edinburgh
- University of California, Berkeley
Top 5 contributing organisations
- Aithos Foundation
- Digital Futures Lab
- Young AI Leaders of Paris
- Learning Planet Institute
- National Research Council of Italy
Top contributing companies
- Bundesdruckerei
- Sony Computer Sciences Laboratories
- Mitsubishi Electric R&D
- Mental Rich
- Advance Future Technology




