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

Janko Munjić (PhD Candidate at the University of Kragujevac)
Epistemically-Aware AI

Dr Adrià Segarra (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge)
Leon Assad (PhD student at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich)
Rafael Fuchs (Doctoral Fellow at Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich)
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)
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)
Predictive Digital Phenotyping in Mental Health: Normality, Risk, and the Ethics of Anticipation

Eike Buhr (PhD candidate at the University of Oldenburg)
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)
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)
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)
Educating for autonomy in the age of AI: Children’s Rights, AI Literacy, and Formative Technologies

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)
Irrationality, Loops, and Affective Personalization in Human AI Interaction

Alexandru Mateescu (PhD candidate at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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)
Sonia Plaza (Senior Economist at the World Bank)
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)
The double responsibility gap with Generative AI: praise deflection and blame diffusion in workplaces

Francesco Gallo (Graduate student at the European University Institute in Florence)
Prof Joanna Bryson (Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School of Governance)
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)
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)
The Calculated Planet: AI-Enabled Climate Modelling and the Politics of Environmental Futures

Helen Hayes (PhD candidate, McGill University)
Fergus Linley-Mota (Director of the Dialogue on Technology Project, Simon Fraser University)
Environmental Impacts of Data Centers and Criminal Law Responses: A Comparative Perspective

Marco Di Donato (PhD candidate at University of Verona)
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)
AI, Democracy and environmental justice in Africa

Oluwakorede Ajibona (PhD Candidate, Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics at the University of Kansas)
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

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
Medical Agents and Public Health Dilemmas: Responsibility, Risk, and Decision-Making under AI Assistance

Yingxue Yang, PhD student at Shanghai Jiaotong University
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
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
“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
Re-Archiving Social Interactions: AI, Creativity, and Cultural Memory in the South Asian

Najam Ul Assar, PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia
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)
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
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
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
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
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
FairPath: Transparent Group-Aware Selection with Explicit Efficiency-Fairness Guarantees

Karthik Gajulapalli, PhD candidate at Georgetown University
Victor Wang, PhD candidate at Georgetown University
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
Synthetic Data and Digital Twins for Physical AI Systems: Accountability under Data Scarcity

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

Kamya Chawla, PhD candidate at the University of Bristol
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
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
Counting Threads and Teraflops: Mapping the Environmental Footprint of AI-Driven Fashion Supply Chains

Nirbhay Rana, Associate Professor at IILM University Gurugram
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).

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