Call for Submissions: Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety (SC4AI’26e), Feb 26, 2026, Paris

[Wesley H Holliday]

Dear Colleagues,

We’d be delighted if you joined us for the workshop: 

Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety (SC4AI’26e)

https://sites.google.com/view/sc4ai/workshops/sc4ai26e

February 26, 2026

Paris, France

as part of the IASEAI’26 workshop day (https://www.iaseai.org/iaseai26).

Please submit contributions (full papers or extended abstracts) via this link by November 26, 2025.

https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=sc4ai26e

Topics include: 

* Traditional or computational social choice that might be relevant in the AI context. 

* Aspects of AI that might profit from some form of collective decision making. 

* Concrete applications of social choice methods in AI. 

* Reinforcement Learning from collective Human Feedback or multiple teachers.

* Social Choice Rules for higher-level steering of AI systems and Scalable Oversight. 

* Democratic Inputs to AI, Constitutional AI, Iterated Amplification, Debate, Recursive Reward Modeling, etc.

* Mechanism Design for Human-AI/AI-AI cooperation, Human-Compatible AI, corrigibility. 

* Formal representation of values, ethical principles, legal concepts, and possibly incomplete or conflicting preferences. 

* Standardization vs individualization, cooperation vs competition. 

* Individual and collective decision theories under risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity. 

* Scalable software tools for eliciting preferences and collective choice. 

* Other approaches to AI ethics and safety based on economic theory.

Important Dates: 

* Paper submission deadline: November 26, 2025 

* Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2025

* Workshop date: February 26, 2026

Looking forward to seeing you in Paris in February,

Vincent Conitzer

Jobst Heitzig

Wes Holliday