Call for papers: AI4CE2024: AAAI 2024 Third Workshop on AI for Credible Elections: A Call To Action with Trusted AI

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Workshop info: https://sites.google.com/view/aielections

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4ce2024

Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada,

February 26, 2024

AI4CE2024: AAAI 2024 Third Workshop on AI for Credible Elections: A Call To Action with Trusted AI

This is a full day workshop held on February 26, 2024.

Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada,

The objectives of the workshop are:

To provide a forum for discussing new approaches and challenges in building AI for conducting elections, and for exchanging ideas about how to move the area forward. In the past two instances, it has facilitated cross-geographical exchange of ideas using case studies and experts from countries such as the US, India, Estonia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, and elsewhere. The workshop thus provides diverse insights into election processes and the role of AI.
To promote trustworthy AI. The workshop explores innovative approaches and methodologies that enhance the trustworthiness of AI technologies used in election processes, addressing concerns related to disinformation, security, and transparency.
To advance transparency. The workshop discusses strategies for promoting transparency in the election process, including the use of technology for data management, validation, and the establishment of best practices.
To address open research problems. The workshop encourages the identification and discussion of open research problems in the field of AI for credible elections, with a focus on areas where Trusted AI can offer solutions.

The workshop welcomes contributions on all aspects of elections and voting, but especially focus on the use of AI in the following:

● For voters

Helping groups with special needs, like seniors or first-time voters, understand elections processes
Helping voters understand issues, candidates and parties
Reducing cost of voting

● For candidates

Organizing candidate campaigns
Detecting, informing and managing mis- and dis-information
Managing narratives: candidate, party and opposition

● For election organizers

Identifying and validating voters
Informing voters about election information understandably
Possible legal and regulatory gaps and solutions
Assessing pulse of voting

In terms of AI methods, all are welcome, including:

Collaborative assistants, a.k.a, chatbots
Neuro-symbolic methods
Trusted AI - explanations, robustness, fairness, auditability
Generative AI - including text, audio, image and video

To promote reproducibility and creating common baselines, we also welcome

New datasets and use of existing datasets that enable use of AI in conducting elections
Metrics for evaluating the impact of AI in the election process
Identify synergies in conducting elections across different geographies

Workshop format: The workshop is organized into about 4 sessions based on technical areas from technology (AI, security) or humanities (political science, journalism). Sessions include invited speakers, paper presentations and panel discussions.

There is no attendance maximum number of attendees.

Submissions: either extended abstracts (4 pages) or full papers (7 pages) anonymised using the AAAI 2024 style guidelines found here. Papers may contain an unlimited number of pages for references and appendices. The latter may not necessarily be read by the reviewers.

All accepted papers will be presented in a virtual poster session. We welcome articles currently under review or papers planned for publication elsewhere.

Submissions site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4ce2024

Publication: There will be no formal publication of workshop proceedings. However, the accepted papers will be made available online on the workshop website and will count as non-archival reports to allow submissions to future conferences/journals.

Important Dates

Workshop paper submissions due: November 30, 2023

Notification to authors: December 11, 2023

Camera-ready copies of authors’ papers: December 18, 2023

Early-bird registration to the conference: December 20, 2023

Workshop date: February 26, 2023

Workshop Chair: Biplav Srivastava (University of South Carolina),

Workshop Committee:
Anita Nikolich (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign), Andrea Hickerson (University of Mississippi), Tarmo Koppel (Tallinn University of Technology), Chris Dawes (New York University), Sachindra Joshi (IBM Research), Ponnaguram Kumaraguru (International Institute of Information Technology)