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.

  1. Hybrid Intention and Augmented Agency: Allocation of Criminal Culpability in Neuroprosthetic Control

    • Janko Munjić — PhD Candidate at the University of Kragujevac
  2. Epistemically-Aware AI

    • Dr Adrià Segarra — Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
  3. Regulating the Unseen: AI Accountability in UK Healthcare Sector

    • Dr Mehmet Unver — Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire
    • Iheanyichukwu Henry Ogu — Investigations and Information Compliance Officer at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
  4. Setting boundaries: Defining “neurodata” and the implications for AI policy and Regulation

    • Dr Sara Berger — Sr Research Scientist and Director of Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, IBM Research
    • Iris Coates McCall — Research Analyst, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
    • Alexis Baria — Senior Data Scientist, UL Standards & Engagement
  5. Are we going towards a Human-AI Coevolution? A multi-leveled framework to study the impact of human-AIinteraction on societal behaviors

    • Chiara Marcoccia — Graduate student at École Normale Supérieure - PSL
    • Luca Pappalardo — Senior Researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
    • Dino Pedreschi — Professor of Computer Science at Università di Pisa
  6. Moral Competence Before Moral Content: Why AI Systems Lack the Prerequisites for Value Alignment

    • Dr Arno Libert — Research scientist at Aithos Research Foundation
    • Daan Henselmans — Executive director at Aithos Research Foundation
  7. Measuring AI Accountability Through Argumentation Analysis: Can Model Reasoning Withstand Scrutiny

    • Dr Arno Libert — Research scientist at Aithos Research Foundation
    • Daan Henselmans — Executive director at Aithos Research Foundation
  8. Children’s Rights, Metacognition, and AI Literacy: A Conceptual Frameworks

    • Martina Galleti — Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories
    • Michael Anslow — Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories
    • Dilara GOKPINAR — Impact Lead and VP of the Young AI Leaders Paris
    • Emmanuelle Charghinoff — President of the Young AI Leaders Paris
    • Cécile RETKOWSKY — Socio-Judicial Agent of the Young AI Leaders Paris
    • Sabrina Akennad — Student at Université Paris Saclay
    • Oussama Elmerrahi — Data & Governance Lead at DataNovaQ
  9. Irrationality, Loops, and Affective Personalization in Human AI Interaction

    • Alexandru Mateescu — PhD candidate at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne
  10. Generative AI as a Third Agent: Rethinking Academic Work and Principal AI Agent Dynamics in Higher Education

    • Rafael Plaza — Research Director at IMPACTO – AI Governance & Institutional Design
  11. Reconfiguring Creative Labour: Generative AI, Work Practices, and the Ethics of Distributed Agency

    • Paola Panarese — Professor at University Sapienza di Roma
    • Claudia Solinas — PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma
    • Marta Grasso — PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma
  12. From Extraction to Exchange: A Data Streaming Framework for Equitable AI Content Economics

    • Dr Primavera De Filippi — Director of research at CNRS
    • Hannah London — J.D. candidate at Berkeley Law School
    • Sebnem Erener — Managing Legal Counsel at Klarna Bank
  13. The Fabricated Front: A Typology of GenAI Opacity Mechanisms at Work

    • Dr Tom van Nuenen — Lecturer and Senior Data Scientist at University of California, Berkeley
    • Pratik Sachdeva — Senior Data Scientist at University of California, Berkeley
    • Sahiba Chopra — PhD candidate at University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
  14. Environmental Impacts of Data Centers and Criminal Law Responses: A Comparative Perspective

    • Marco Di Donato — PhD candidate at University of Verona
  15. Toward a Self-Organizing Literature Review: An Application to the Financial Impacts of Physical Climate Risks

    • Paul Vigneron — Postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Louis Bachelier
    • Prof Vincent Vigneron — Professor of Statistical Learning for Precision Medicine at the University of Évry & head of the SIAM team at the IBISC Lab
  16. AI, Democracy and environmental justice in Africa

    • Oluwakorede Ajibona — PhD Candidate, Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics at the University of Kansas
  17. Will AI Help Solve Climate Change? Assessing the Evidence

    • Théophile Lenoir — Coordinator of the Observatory on the Environmental Footprint of AI at Ecole Normale Supérieure & PhD candidate at the University of Milan

Selected posters

  1. Authority Bias Under Pressure: How Professional Status Shapes AI Summarization of Conflicting Clinical Recommendations

    • Dr Arno Libert — Research scientist at Aithos Research Foundation
    • Daan Henselmans — Executive director at Aithos Research Foundation
  2. Medical Agents and Public Health Dilemmas: Responsibility, Risk, and Decision-Making under AI Assistance

    • Yingxue Yang — PhD student at Shanghai Jiaotong University
  3. Empowering Patients with DIY Ethics for DIY Health Technologies

    • Jana Sedlakova — Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford
    • Clara-Maria Barth — PhD candidate at the University of Zurich
  4. From Tool to Companion: How Users Negotiate Trust, Dependency, and Critical Engagement with LLMs

    • Paola Panarese — Professor at University Sapienza di Roma
    • Claudia Solinas — PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma
    • Marta Grasso — PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma
  5. “I’m Here for You”: An Exploratory Multiple-Case Study of Deceptive Empathy and Crisis-Resource Misalignment in LLM Responses to Passive Suicidal Ideation

    • Yesim Keskin — Associate Professor of Psychology at University of La Verne
    • Nanda Min Htin — Researcher at Georgetown University Law Center
  6. Re-Archiving Social Interactions: AI, Creativity, and Cultural Memory in the South Asian

    • Najam Ul Assar — PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia
  7. From Rejection to Regulation: Mapping the Landscape of AI Resistance

    • Ayse Gizem Yasar — Senior Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL
    • Can Simsek — Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
  8. Enforceability by Design: Preventing AI Dependency and Preserving Critical Thinking in Human-AI Interaction

    • Fakhar Abbas — Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Trusted Internet & Community, National University of Singapore
    • Simon Chesterman — David Marshall Professor and Vice Provost at the National University of Singapore
    • Araz Taeihagh — Assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
  9. Care-Full Alignment: Socio-Technical Design, User Attachment, and Ethics of Care in AI Chatbots

    • Rayane El Masri — PhD student at the Queensland University of Technology
  10. The Mirror That Talks Back: Young Men’s Gendered Narratives of Joy & AI-Mediated Well-being

    • Sim Gil — PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania
    • Desmond Patton — 31st PIK University Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice and the Waldo E. Johnson Jr. Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
    • Shana Kleiner — Associate Director, SAFELab, University of Pennsylvania
  11. From Artificial Subjectivity to Synthetic Sociality: How AI Systems Enter Human Meaning-Making

    • Thorsten Jelinek — Research Fellow at the Hertie School, Centre for Digital Governance
    • Patrick Glauner — Department of Applied Computer Science, Deggendorf Institute of Technology
    • Alvin Wang Graylin — Digital Economy Lab, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University
  12. From Fear to Fluency: Cultivating AI Confidence and Socio-Economic Wellbeing in the Workforce

    • Narmadha Kamalakannan — Doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Ponts Business School, Paris
  13. Human-Robot Collaboration in the Workplace Transformation: Ethical, Legal, Labour and Technological Challenges

    • Dr Alina Glushkova — Centre for Robotics, Mines Paris-PSL Université
    • Dr Sotiris Manitsaris — Centre for Robotics, Mines Paris-PSL Université
    • Dr Alexandros Spyridonos — Spyridonos Law Offices
  14. FairPath: Transparent Group-Aware Selection with Explicit Efficiency-Fairness Guarantees

    • Karthik Gajulapalli — PhD candidate at Georgetown University
    • Victor Wang — PhD candidate at Georgetown University
  15. Doing AI Ethics at Work: Semantic Translation and Ethical Decision-Making in Development Teams

    • Paola Panarese — Professor at University Sapienza di Roma
    • Claudia Solinas — PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma
    • Marta Grasso — PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma
  16. Synthetic Data and Digital Twins for Physical AI Systems: Accountability under Data Scarcity

    • Pietra Quinelato — Professor at Universidade de São Paulo
  17. Embedding Environmental Externalities into EU Competition Law: AI, Big Tech and the Energy Transition

    • Kamya Chawla — PhD candidate at the University of Bristol
  18. A comparative ethical typology for mapping existing and emerging ethical themes in the field of autonomous environmental robotics

    • Aline Shakti Franzke — Research associate at the University of Tübingen
    • Lou Therese Brandner — Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen
    • Simon David Hirsbrunner — Senior researcher at the University of Tübingen
  19. The environmental costs of AI expansion : a comparative study of data center governance in Brazil’s PL 2338/2023 and the EU AI Act

    • Teresa Helena Sales — Postdoctoral researcher at Universidade de São Paulo
  20. Counting Threads and Teraflops: Mapping the Environmental Footprint of AI-Driven Fashion Supply Chains

    • Nirbhay Rana — Associate Professor at IILM University Gurugram
  21. Getting Intelligent about Intelligence: New Foundations for Artificial Intelligence Research

    • Melvin Chen — Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Nanyang Technological University

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).

Type of institutions
Universities75%
NGOs13%
Corporates11%
GOs2%
Country distribution
France16%
USA14%
Italy12%
Great Britain9%
Netherlands8%
Saudi Arabia5%
India4%
Canada3%
Belgium2%
Nigeria2%
Other countries25%41 other countries

Top 10 contributing universities

  1. King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology
  2. Sapienza Università di Roma
  3. University of Pennsylvania
  4. ENS Paris
  5. University of Florence
  6. Oregon State University
  7. University of Cambridge
  8. University of Technology Nuremberg
  9. University of Edinburgh
  10. 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

Sponsors

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