{"id":2600,"date":"2025-09-26T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2025\/?page_id=2600"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:26:33","slug":"paper-sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/paper-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion and Paper Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Discussion Session #1 \u2014 Monday, 9:00am<\/strong>
Participation, Sovereignty, and Power in AI Governance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

258<\/td>The Mitigation Paradox: How AI-Disinformation Experts Converge on Threats but Polarize on Solutions<\/td>Alexander Loth, Mina Sch\u00fctz, Martin Kappes and Marc-Oliver Pahl<\/td><\/tr>
1125<\/td>Appearing Legitimate is Not Enough: Synthetic Agents, Personhood, and Legitimacy in Representational Processes<\/td>Aditya Nayak, Aditi Vashistha, Alissa Centivany and Aakash Gautam<\/td><\/tr>
1284<\/td>Cognitive Digital Twins: Ethical Risks and Governance for AI Systems That Model the Mind<\/td>Vamshi Krishna Bonagiri, Juan Nicol\u00e1s Sep\u00falveda-Arias, Abdoul Jalil Djiberou Mahamadou and Monojit Choudhury<\/td><\/tr>
1313<\/td>Sovereignty Theater: Why Sovereign AI Falls Short of Cultural Self-Determination<\/td>Bruria Friedman Feldman, Tyler Smith, Victor Y. Wu and Yuanhao Zou<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paper Session #1 \u2014 Monday, 10:45am<\/strong>
Chair: Franziska Roesner<\/strong>
Bias and Discrimination in AI Systems<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

88<\/td>Analysis of Gender Stereotyping in U.S. Capital Trials<\/td>Camille Harris, Emma Harvey, Andrea W Wen-Yi, Sandra Babcock, Rachel Goldberg, Amanda Potts and Allison Koenecke<\/td><\/tr>
377<\/td>ABLEIST: Intersectional Disability Bias in LLM-Generated Hiring Scenarios<\/td>Mahika Phutane, Hayoung Jung, Matthew Kim, Tanu Mitra and Aditya Vashistha<\/td><\/tr>
1007<\/td>Examining Racial and Gender Bias in CLIP via Explainability-Based Visual Attention Analysis<\/td>Tesnim Gulsen and P\u0131nar Uluer<\/td><\/tr>
1156<\/td>Linguistic Triggers of Gender and Racial Bias in Open-Weight LLMs Applied to Recruitment<\/td>Kosuke Kitahara and Nobuhiro Yamaguchi<\/td><\/tr>
1299<\/td>A Proxy-Based Method for Measuring Racial Disparities in Text-to-Image Generators<\/td>Nia Mucher, Ngan Pham, Jason Chin, Aaron Brown and David Evans<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Discussion Session #2 \u2014 Monday, 2:00pm<\/strong>
Trust, Dependence, and Human Oversight<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

128<\/td>Mediational Opacity: How AI Reshapes Our Epistemic Environments, and How to Audit It<\/td>Alessandro Facchini<\/td><\/tr>
766<\/td>The Perils of Agency: How Developers Perceive, Prioritize, and Address Risks in Agentic AI Products<\/td>Hao-Ping Lee, Jessica He, David Piorkowski, Thomas Serban von Davier, Jodi Forlizzi and Sauvik Das<\/td><\/tr>
1013<\/td>“Always Want to Use it for Everything”: Understanding Young Adults’ Perceptions of AI Dependence<\/td>Ashlee Milton, Leah Ajmani, Amy Heger, Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh, Mihaela Vorvoreanu and Jina Suh<\/td><\/tr>
1282<\/td>Epistemic Trustworthiness in Generative AI: A Normative Framework for Warranted Reliance in High-Stakes Workflows<\/td>Nimisha Karnatak, Max Van Kleek and Nigel Shadbolt<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paper Session #2 \u2014 Monday, 3:45pm<\/strong>
AI Across Work and Education<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

832<\/td>Who Will Become the Next Senior?: How Generative AI Erodes the Development Pathway in Software Engineering<\/td>Sumin Yu and Taesup Moon<\/td><\/tr>
887<\/td>Cost-of-Ethics Crisis: Beliefs, Decisions, and Justifications in the Job Searches of Computer Science Students in Canada and the United States<\/td>Mohamed Abdalla, Sahar Abdalla, Alicia Cappello, Kyrie Dowling, Dana\u00e9 Metaxa, David Widder and Catherine Stinson<\/td><\/tr>
901<\/td>Beyond the Language Tier: A Survey Study of Culturally Situated Resource Scarcity in Math Word Problem Adaptation<\/td>Parisa Suchdev and Juniper Lovato<\/td><\/tr>
1020<\/td>On the Generalizability of Fair Representations<\/td>Shai Ben-David, Tosca Lechner and Ruth Urner<\/td><\/tr>
1401<\/td>An Agent-Based Simulation of Fairness Interventions in Hiring<\/td>Mattia Cerrato, Herbert Dawid and Stefan Kramer<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paper Session #3 \u2014 Tuesday, 10:45am<\/strong>
Law, Regulation, and AI Accountability<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

211<\/td>Governing by Proxy: How Regulatory Intermediaries Shape EU AI Act Compliance in Practice<\/td>Simon Jarvers and Orestis Papakyriakopoulos<\/td><\/tr>
905<\/td>Scaling, Lock-In, and Proxy Compliance: A Political Economy of Responsible AI<\/td>Florian A D Burnat and Brittany I Davidson<\/td><\/tr>
1087<\/td>Triangulating Across U.S. Federal AI Transparency Regimes<\/td>Emma Lurie, Emma Fauser, Qing He, Dana\u00e9 Metaxa and Sorelle A. Friedler<\/td><\/tr>
1096<\/td>No One to Blame: A Framework of Constitutive AI Unaccountability<\/td>Long Hoang Nguyen, Eva Sp\u00e4the, Sebastian Lins and Ali Sunyaev<\/td><\/tr>
1206<\/td>Govern, Map, Measure, Absorb: The Legibility Trap in Public Sector Participatory AI Governance<\/td>Srijan Pandey and Devansh Saxena<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paper Session #4 \u2014 Tuesday, 2:30pm<\/strong>
AI in Health and Care<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

492<\/td>Beyond \u201cI Can\u2019t Help with That\u201d: How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety<\/td>Hannah Cha, Neha Shukla, Solon Barocas, Alexandra Chouldechova, Eugenia Kim and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan<\/td><\/tr>
772<\/td>Nationwide AI Models for Depression Prediction: Regional Generalizability and Culturally Sensitive Variable Selection<\/td>Alissa Valentine, Helen Coupland, Eike Petersen, Emily Beaman, Merete Osler, Aasa Feragen and Melanie Ganz<\/td><\/tr>
1233<\/td>Vary the Wrapping, Not the Contents: Auditing Persona Bias in Six LLMs on Smoking-Cessation Advice<\/td>Artin Yousefi, Aizierjiang Aiersilan, Lorien Abroms and David Broniatowski<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Discussion Session #3 \u2014 Tuesday, 3:45pm<\/strong>
Chair: Dana\u00e9 Metaxa<\/strong>
AI at Work: Power and Social Justice<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

500<\/td>Responsible AI as Hegemony: Epistemic Exclusion, Technosolutionist Conformity, and Performative Compliance Among AI Practitioners in India<\/td>Atmadeep Ghoshal, Arshia Dutta, Ruba Abu-Salma, Sanjay Modgil and Martim Brandao<\/td><\/tr>
578<\/td>\u201cI want to be pushed, I want to grow\u201d: Enabling social workers to design evaluations of LLM augmentation in their work<\/td>Anna Kawakami, Chloe Qianhui Zhao, Renee Shelby, Fernando Diaz, Haiyi Zhu and Ken Holstein<\/td><\/tr>
754<\/td>Unaccountable Delegation, Fading Skills: Mapping the Risks of Workplace AI Agents<\/td>Gabriele La Malfa, Lakmal Meegahapola, Edyta Bogucka, Jie M. Zhang, Michael Luck, Elizabeth Black and Daniele Quercia<\/td><\/tr>
1155<\/td>See Me, Believe Me: Causality, Intersectionality, and Interventions Improving the Appearance of Patients<\/td>Kenya Andrews, Mesrob Ohannessian and Elena Zheleva<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Discussion Session #4 \u2014 Wednesday, 9:00am<\/strong>
AI Safety, Alignment, and Responsibility Across Contexts<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

548<\/td>AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation<\/td>Benjamin Lange<\/td><\/tr>
1173<\/td>Abstracted Away: Resisting Alienation and Ungrounded Abstraction in AI Research Communities<\/td>Vyoma Raman, Isabel Gallegos and Neha Srivathsa<\/td><\/tr>
1246<\/td>The Judgment-Consequence Gap: LLM Moral Reasoning in Healthcare Decisions<\/td>Hadi Hosseini, Samarth Khanna and Leona Pierce<\/td><\/tr>
1374<\/td>Culturally Situated AI Safety for Youth: A Saudi Arabian Perspectives of Youth, Parents and Teachers<\/td>Aljawharah Alzahrani and Tanusree Sharma<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paper Session #5 \u2014 Wednesday, 10:45am<\/strong>
Auditing and Evaluating AI<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

471<\/td>No More Plaudits for Algorithm Audits: A Provocation<\/td>Alicia DeVrio and David Widder<\/td><\/tr>
751<\/td>Frictionless Validation: The Effects of AI Sycophancy on the Developing Mind<\/td>Junfeng Jiao, Abhejay Murali and Saleh Afroogh<\/td><\/tr>
1010<\/td>The Effects of Functional Emotions on LLM-Based Paper Review<\/td>Pedro Bento, Yan Aquino Amorim, Arthur Rodrigues Chagas, Arthur Buzelin, Lucas Dayrell, Gisele Lobo Pappa, Virgilio Almeida and Wagner Meira Jr.<\/td><\/tr>
1090<\/td>Auditing AI-Washing in German Startups: A Mixed-Methods Study of Marketing Claims and Perceptions<\/td>A Pranav, Luke Hartmann and Anne Lauscher<\/td><\/tr>
1152<\/td>What Current AI Benchmarks Leave Unmeasured: Modality, Search, Citations, and Implications (for Safety Evaluations)<\/td>Ro Encarnaci\u00f3n, Tina Behzad, Emma Lurie and Dana\u00e9 Metaxa<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Paper Session #6 \u2014 Wednesday, 2:00pm<\/strong>
Generative AI and Human Vulnerability<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

623<\/td>Engagement-Optimized Care: When LLMs become Mental Health Infrastructure<\/td>Briana Vecchione, Meryl Ye, Livia Garofalo and Ranjit Singh<\/td><\/tr>
908<\/td>Beyond Guardrails: Dual Failure Modes in LLM Safety as Inverse Control-System Errors<\/td>Ethan Gillese<\/td><\/tr>
1057<\/td>Personality Without Persons? A Psychometric Critique of Big Five Testing in Large Language Models<\/td>Kim Zierahn, Cristina Cachero, Anna Korhonen and Nuria Oliver<\/td><\/tr>
1079<\/td>The Beginning of ChatGPT Ads<\/td>Emma Lurie, Ro Encarnaci\u00f3n, Sorelle A. Friedler and Dana\u00e9 Metaxa<\/td><\/tr>
1107<\/td>AI-Enabled Human Memory Manipulation: Misleading AI-Generated Summaries Distort Human Memory<\/td>Mattea Sim, Yael Eiger and Tadayoshi Kohno<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discussion Session #1 \u2014 Monday, 9:00amParticipation, Sovereignty, and Power in AI Governance 258 The Mitigation Paradox: How AI-Disinformation Experts Converge on Threats but Polarize on Solutions Alexander Loth, Mina Sch\u00fctz, Martin Kappes and Marc-Oliver Pahl 1125 Appearing Legitimate is Not Enough: Synthetic Agents, Personhood, and Legitimacy in Representational Processes Aditya Nayak, Aditi Vashistha, Alissa Centivany […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2600\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aies-conference.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}