Call for Papers: Symposium on Behavioral AI in Education, Work, and Decision-Making (ESSCA Paris, 8-9 April 2026)

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Alexandros Karakostas

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Dec 19, 2025, 4:13:14 PM (7 days ago) Dec 19

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Dear colleagues,

We invite submissions for the Symposium on Behavioral AI in Education, Work, and Decision-Making, to be held at ESSCA School of Management in Paris on 8–9 April 2026.

The symposium aims to bring together researchers from the social, behavioral, and computational sciences studying human-AI interaction and its implications for education, the workplace, and everyday life.

The symposium will feature keynote talks by leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working at the intersection of behavioral science and AI.

Jean-François Bonnefon (Toulouse School of Economics)
Phanish Puranam (INSEAD)
Thomas Coustenoble (Microsoft)
Erwan Paitel (French Ministry of Education)

We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions, including work that documents effects and mechanisms in the following areas:

i. Productivity and Work: Workplace AI adoption, including the division of cognitive labor, task redesign, productivity and quality effects, reskilling, and handover in hybrid workflows.

ii. Decision Quality: AI-assisted decision-making, including cognitive offloading, judgment accuracy and calibration, algorithm aversion and appreciation, and weak or “lazy” oversight.

iii. Responsible AI: AI-mediated decisions, including trust and transparency, machine behavior, and responsibility and blame, as well as work using LLMs as “synthetic subjects”.

iv. Education: AI use in education, including effects on student learning and performance, assessment integrity and academic honesty, and integration of AI as a learning support that enhances learning outcomes.

Thanks to the financial support of the EUonAIR Alliance, registration is free. Additionally, we are currently arranging preferential accommodation rates with local hotels for symposium participants.

Abstracts and full papers can be submitted via the symposium website: www.behavioralaisymposium2025.com

Submission deadline: 1 February 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2026

Please feel free to circulate this CFP within your networks. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at: alexandros...@essca.fr or euo...@essca.fr

With best regards,
Alexandros Karakostas
(on behalf of the local organizing committee)
ESSCA School of Management