The AiOfAi workshop, which has had three prior editions at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), aims to highlight the double-edged nature of AI in the digital age, examining how it can be exploited to undermine trust, privacy, and integrity, while also serving as a foundation for more secure, ethical, and resilient digital ecosystems. We will discuss the societal impact of widespread adoption of AI tools, especially with the advent of Generative AI and its consequences, ranging from the erosion of public trust to the blurring privacy lines. AiOfAi will also address the ethical and legal frameworks needed to guide responsible AI deployment, which embodies fairness, transparent decision-making, and privacy preservation. 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aiofai-2026/home

We invite AI researchers and practitioners across different disciplines and knowledge backgrounds to submit contributions dealing with the following (or related) topics:

• Adverse Applications of Generative AI and Machine Learning (ML):

  • • AI-driven online deception, misinformation/disinformation, and social manipulation

    • Jailbreaks, prompt/data injection, and scalable content automation using LLMs

    • Fraud, impersonation, and social engineering attacks powered by generative models 

• Mitigation Strategies and Safety Mechanisms for AI/ML:

  • Threat modeling, risk assessment, and adversarial testing of ML systems

  • Explainable AI (XAI), human-in-the-loop systems, and oversight frameworks

  • Safety guardrails for LLMs and multimodal AI systems

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) reliability and hallucination mitigation

  • Behavioral modeling and intrusion detection

  • Privileged Access Management (PAM) and privilege creep detection 

• Evaluation and Oversight of Generative and Agentic AI Systems:

  • Containment, alignment, and interpretability of generative models

  • Benchmarking, scenario libraries, and simulation testbeds

  • Post-deployment monitoring, incident reporting, and documentation

  • Secure agent architectures and compliance in high-risk AI domains 

• Technical and Societal Impacts of AI and ML Systems: 

  • Privacy breaches, data leakage, and model inversion attacks

  • Bias, discrimination, and representational harms in ML

  • Psychological and societal effects of Human-AI interaction

  • Trust erosion and polarization in digital ecosystems

• Legal, Ethical, and Governance Considerations in AI:

  •  Intellectual property and content ownership

  • Regulatory compliance for AI systems (e.g., GDPR, AI Act)

  • AI in surveillance and law enforcement

  • Responsible AI, transparency, and auditing mechanisms 

Special topics of interest:

1. Misuse & Societal Harms of Generative AI: Deepfakes and synthetic voice; Misinformation/disinformation; Scam automation and social engineering; Privacy leakage; Bias and representational harms; Accessibility and language equity; Harms in high-risk domains 

2. Safety, Evaluation & Governance of Generative Systems: Jailbreaks, prompt/data injection, containment; hallucination mitigation; RAG reliability; post-deployment monitoring; incident reporting; human oversight; alignment; interpretability; safety cases; auditing; compliance processes for high-risk GenAI. 

We welcome submissions spanning the full range of theoretical and applied work, including user research, methods, datasets, tools, simulations, demos, and practical evaluations. 

Submission Details

Submissions should be 7 pages for full technical papers, 4 pages for short papers or demos, and 2-3 pages for position papers, including references in double columns. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM Companion Proceedings. Templates (Word and Latex) can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template 

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by 3-4 members of the program committee in a single-blind process.

Submission Deadline: December 18, 2025 - Time: AOE

Notification: January 13, 2026 - Time: AOE

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=aiofai2026