About the Conference

Why Participate?

Key Dates

Conference Scope and Themes

Paper Submission Process

Workshop Proposal Submission Process

Statement of Interest and Talk Proposal Submission Process

Invitations and Attendance

Registration Fees and Financial Support

Organizing Committee

IASEAI'26 brings together an interdisciplinary community of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners committed to ensuring that AI technologies are safe, ethical, and beneficial. Whether your work is technical, philosophical, or policy-oriented, we welcome your contribution.

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Submissions for papers and workshops are currently open! We are receiving submissions on our platform via the links below:

Papers | Workshop Proposals | Talk Proposals (coming soon) | Statements of Interest (coming soon)

We welcome contributions on themes relevant to IASEAI's mission, including (but not limited to) the areas below. The example themes listed for each area are for illustration purposes and not meant to be exhaustive. Interdisciplinary work is explicitly encouraged.

• Agentic & multi-agent safety (deception/collusion, self-modification, tool-use/lab agents)
• Alignment (value learning, assistance)
• AI in warfare & autonomous weapons (rules of engagement, escalation/stability)
• Control & containment (guardrails, shutdown, resource controls)
• Embodied & safety-critical AI (robot safety, human-AI systems)
• Fairness, equity & justice (bias mitigation, distributive impacts)
• Formal verification & runtime assurance (temporal logic, contracts, safety filters)
• Human rights, privacy & surveillance (civil liberties, law enforcement, public safeguards)
• Information integrity & influence (watermarking, recommenders, persuasion)
• International governance & verification (treaties, compute controls, inspections)
• Interpretability & transparency (mechanistic interpretability, probes)
• Labor, organisations & future of work (wages/productivity, workplace safety)
• Law & regulation (product safety/liability, privacy & IP, procurement)
• Psychology & human factors (trust, overreliance, mental health)
• Robustness & security (jailbreak defenses, abuse resistance)
• Safety evaluation (metrics, benchmarks, dangerous capability eval)
• Scalable oversight (critique, process-level auditing)
• Standards & certification (safety cases, third-party audits, incident reporting)
• Sustainability & Resource impact (footprint, supply chains, responsible innovation)
• Uncertainty & risk quantification (calibration, anomaly detection, safety margins)

If your work does not clearly fit one or more of the listed tracks but aligns with the goals of the conference, we encourage you to submit a contribution. You may also propose a new theme by contacting conference@iaseai.org

We are accepting research paper submissions for presentation at IASEAI'26. Submissions must be anonymized and will undergo a double-blind peer-review process.

At the time of submission, authors must indicate whether, if accepted, they wish their paper to be:

• Archival (published in full in the IASEAI'26 conference proceedings)
• Non-archival (listed only as a title and abstract in the IASEAI'26 proceedings)

This choice is hidden from reviewers and has no bearing on the peer review standards. However, the choice is binding and cannot be altered after the abstract submission deadline. Authors should note that originality and dual submission requirements differ between archival and non-archival submissions, and papers found to be ineligible will be desk-rejected by the Program Chairs.

Please refer to the Paper Submission Guide for further details and guidelines.

Submit via: Paper Submissions

Abstracts due: 1 October 2025

Full papers due: 8 October 2025

Notification of outcome: 21 November 2025

We are accepting proposals for workshops to be held at IASEAI'26. Workshops provide an informal venue for discussion around a specific theme connected to IASEAI. Proposals may request a half-day or full-day workshop. Proposers are encouraged to choose a format that best suits the topic at hand, which can range from structured presentations to open discussion-based formats. Workshop sizes will depend on the configuration of rooms at the venue; we expect space limits of 50 to 150 attendees per workshop.

We welcome submissions on any of the themes listed above, or any other themes relevant to IASEAI's mission. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Workshop Committee and selected based on relevance, clarity, and potential for meaningful engagement. Workshop presentations will not be included in the formal proceedings, however related materials may be shared on the IASEAI'26 website, and workshop organizers will be invited to contribute a report on their workshop's discussion and key takeaways to the proceedings.

Submit via: Workshop Submissions

Submission deadline: 1 October 2025

Notification of outcome: 10 October 2025

We are accepting Statements of Interest for attendance and Talk Proposals for presentation at IASEAI'26. Unlike research papers, Statements of Interest and Talk Proposals are not anonymized and will undergo a single-blind review by the IASEAI'26 Conference Committee.

All prospective participants are encouraged to submit one of the following:

• Statement of interest: A brief statement articulating your motivation to attend IASEAI'26 and, optionally, outlining your ongoing activities related to safe and ethical AI and/or the perspective you hope to contribute.
• Talk proposal: A proposal to give a non-research-based oral presentation related to the Conference Scope and Themes or otherwise relevant to IASEAI's mission (e.g., outlining your government's novel approach to AI regulation or a new international standard for digital content provenance).

While we strongly encourage submissions by the due date shown below to maximize the chances of receiving an invitation, the submission portal for Statements of Interest and Talk Proposals will remain open until the final registration deadline. Submissions received after due date will be considered on a rolling basis subject to space constraints.

Accepted talks will be listed in the IASEAI'26 conference proceedings by title and abstract only (non-archival). This means authors are free to publish extended or related work in other venues.

Submissions open soon

Submissions due: 20 October 2025 (submissions received after this date will be considered on a rolling basis)

Notifications and invitations: 21 November 2025 (late submissions may receive an invitation at a later date)

Due to capacity restrictions, participation in IASEAI'26 will be by invitation only. We welcome all prospective participants to apply for an invitation by submitting a paper, talk proposal, workshop proposal, or statement of interest.

All invited individuals may choose to register for and attend the IASEAI'26 Main Conference, the IASEAI'26 Workshop Day, or both.

Papers: Each accepted paper will be automatically allocated one invitation for the designated presenter. Co-authors who are not presenting may apply to attend the conference by submitting a Statement of Interest.

Talks: Each accepted talk proposal will be allocated one invitation for the speaker to attend.

General attendance: Prospective participants who are not the designated presenter of a submitted paper or talk or part of an accepted workshop should submit an individual Statement of Interest.

Invitations will be issued in November 2025. Please refer to Key Dates for the detailed submission, invitation, and registration timeline.

Unlike the 2025 conference, IASEAI'26 will have a registration fee (cost to be announced soon). A limited number of travel stipends and fee waivers may be available for participants who require financial support in order to attend. Prospective participants may indicate their need for financial support during the submission process. Attendees from less well-funded institutions and regions will be given priority for financial support. Decisions on financial support will be delivered at the same time as invitations to register. After the initial deadline (20 October), applications received later in the process will be decreasingly likely to receive financial support.

Led by

Mark Nitzberg, Interim Executive Director & Conference Chair

Stuart Russell, President pro tem

Program Chairs

Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Jaime Fernandez Fisac

Workshop Chair

Adam Gleave

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