[CFP] AI CHAOS Workshop at ACM HCOMP’26 — Human Oversight of AI Systems

[Min Lee]

Dear HCOMP community,

We are pleased to invite submissions to AI CHAOS! — the 3rd Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems, co-located with ACM HCOMP’26.

This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners across AI, human computation, HCI, psychology, law, and policy to examine how human oversight can move beyond a regulatory checkbox toward rigorous, scalable, and meaningful mechanisms for monitoring, intervention, accountability, and human agency.

We invite contributions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Distributed Oversight: Coordinating workflows across operators, domain experts, and compliance officers.
• Scalable Steering: Interaction paradigms that alleviate cognitive fatigue, oversight burnout, and automation bias.
• Misalignment Repair: Real-time mechanisms to detect, communicate, and fix human-AI misalignment at runtime.
• Evaluation and Policy: Translating legal frameworks into verifiable software architectures and human-centric metrics.

Submission formats:

• Full research papers: 4–6 pages excluding references
• Short position papers: 2–4 pages excluding references
• Format: Standard ACM format, following the HCOMP 2026 submission templates
• Archival status: Non-archival

Submissions will undergo lightweight peer review. Accepted papers will be featured through interactive presentations and collaborative breakout sessions.

Important dates — AoE:

• Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2026
• Notification to authors: August 7, 2026
• Conference early-bird registration: August 22, 2026
• Workshop date: Sunday, September 27, 2026

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/hcomp-2026

Please submit your contribution as a single PDF by emailing the organizers listed on the workshop website.

Please feel free to circulate this call to colleagues and students who may be interested.

Best Regards,

Min

On behalf of the AI CHAOS workshop organizers