AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible Future Conference

Call for Papers

 

AI & Society Conference: Shaping a Responsible Future - A FAccT Community Meetup

A Local Meetup of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025) Community

Date: June 28-29 

Location: BNBU campus 

Website: https://socialresponsible.net/

 

We invite you to contribute to AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible Future, a local meetup of the FAccT community centered around the critical societal impacts of Artificial Intelligence. This event aims to foster discussion, share insights, and present cutting-edge research on the ethical, social, and technical challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies. We welcome submissions from researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community members interested in shaping a responsible AI future.

This meetup provides a valuable platform to present your work, engage with the local FAccT community, and discuss the pressing issues surrounding AI. We particularly encourage submissions that explore the real-world consequences of AI systems on individuals and society. Furthermore, we warmly welcome submissions from the FAccT community, including papers that were not accepted by the main FAccT 2025 conference, offering an alternative venue for impactful work.

We welcome submissions across all areas of Artificial Intelligence, with a particular emphasis on the following potential topics:

Potential Topics:

  • Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) of AI systems
  • Bias detection and mitigation in AI models and data
  • Explainable AI (XAI) and interpretable machine learning
  • Trust and human-AI interaction
  • User perceptions and understanding of AI systems
  • The societal impact of recommender systems
  • Ethical considerations in AI chatbot and smart AI assistant design and deployment
  • AI and its impact on labor, education, healthcare, and other societal domains
  • The role of AI in shaping public discourse and democracy
  • Privacy and security implications of AI technologies
  • Legal and regulatory frameworks for AI governance
  • Participatory and inclusive approaches to AI development
  • AI for social good and addressing societal challenges
  • Case studies and real-world deployments of AI with societal implications
  • Methods for evaluating the societal impact of AI systems
  • The future of AI and its long-term societal consequences


Submission Instructions:

Authors are invited to submit original, anonymized research papers of no more than 14 pages in length (excluding references). All submissions must be in PDF format and adhere to the ACM format.

Please submit your paper through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ais25

To ensure a fair and unbiased review process, all submissions must be anonymized. Please remove all author names and affiliations from the paper, and avoid any acknowledgments or other identifying information within the manuscript. References to your own prior work should be made in the third person (e.g., "As shown in [Author's Previous Work]...").

The conference will recognize the top three outstanding papers. A "Top Paper Award" will be presented to each of these distinguished contributions, and the winners will receive a certificate acknowledging their achievement.

 

Anonymity Policy

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. Authors are responsible for ensuring the anonymity of their submissions. This includes:

Removing all author names and affiliations from the title page and throughout the paper.
Avoiding explicit self-references that would reveal your identity (e.g., "In our previous work [citation], we showed..."). Instead, use third-person phrasing (e.g., "The work by [Author's Previous Work] showed...").
Anonymizing file names and document properties.
Being mindful of information that could indirectly reveal your identity if making source code or data publicly available.
Submissions that violate the anonymity policy may be rejected without review.

 

Concurrent Submission Policy

You may not submit papers that are identical or substantially similar to papers that are currently under review at another peer-reviewed conference or journal, have been previously published, or have been accepted for publication. Such submissions violate our concurrent submission policy and will be removed from submission. See the Author Guide for exceptions.

 

Conference Attendance

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for, attend, and present the work at the conference for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. An option for virtual presentation will be available for authors who cannot attend in person with details available after paper acceptance notifications.

 

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025, 11:59 pm
Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2025
Conference Dates: June 28-29
We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in a fruitful discussion on the crucial societal impacts of AI at AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible Future!

 

"Top Paper" Award Committee

Richard Xiaying Xu, Department of Communication, BNBU

Maggie Xiaomeng Lan, Department of Communication, BNBU

Yuanxin Wang, Department of Communication, BNBU

Nicolas Langrene, Department of Mathematical Sciences, BNBU

 

Organizing Committee

Zhixin (Giselle) Pu, Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University

Fan Hu, Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University

Wen (Monica) Chen, Beijing Normal– Hong Kong Baptist University

 

Conference Assistant

Isla Dinghui Zhou, Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University

Alice Runshi Rao, Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University