Call for Contributions: Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety (SC4AI’26e), Feb 26, 2026, Paris
Marcus Pivato
Dear all,
Here is a message from Vincent Conitzer, Jobst Heitzig, and Wes Holliday about a conference that might interest some members of this forum.
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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, including published or ongoing work) via this link by November 26, 2025.
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=sc4ai26eTopics 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