#AIES2026 social media round-up

This week saw researchers gather in Malmö at the ninth AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES).

We cast an eye over social media platforms to find out what participants got up to at the event.

The 9th annual AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES-26) is underway in Malmö. We are looking forward to a robust program full of educational and networking opportunities.

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— aaai.org (@aaai.org) 13 October 2026 at 17:10

Today at #AIES2026 in Malmö I joined the panel on Participation, Sovereignty, and Power in AI Governance with The Mitigation Paradox, joint work with Mina Schütz, Martin Kappes and Marc-Oliver Pahl. 3 takeaways:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23302284

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— Alexander Loth (@alexanderloth.bsky.social) 12 October 2026 at 10:12

At the opening session for #AIES2026. And all I can think of is how the opening presentation was clearly Claude generated from the fonts and style :). Nothing wrong with that – it's a time saver – but it's a distinct aesthetic.

— Suresh Venkatasubramanian (@geomblog.bsky.social) 12 October 2026 at 07:51

Are algorithm audits meaningfully fixing issues in algorithmic systems? In our paper at #AIES2026 this week, @davidthewid.bsky.social and I argue that it’s time to deprioritize algorithm audits & instead shift scrutiny to the larger systems of power in which audits sit. 1/n

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— Alicia DeVrio (@uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social) 12 October 2026 at 02:06

On Wednesday, I will present my very personal work on auditing AI startups. Here we look at how AI startups used AI-washing to attract investment for surveillance based products. #AIES2026

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— Pranav A (@pranav-nlp.bsky.social) 10 October 2026 at 12:54

On Monday, I will present this poster on critically analyzing mass surveillance datasets. I empirically show here that collecting CCTV style images is nonsense idea and does not even improve the model performance. #AIES2026

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— Pranav A (@pranav-nlp.bsky.social) 10 October 2026 at 12:50

Queer in AI is organizing socials at AIES 2026! Queer scientists and allies are warmly welcome in our social. Feel free to meet us on Monday for bar crawl, Tuesday at Kappa Bar and Wednesday in Copenhagen after the conference.

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— Queer in AI (@queerinai.com) 6 October 2026 at 14:41

It’s good to see the wide variety of papers at #AIES2026 covering different perspectives and issues, and I’m very much looking forward to catching up with various friends and academic collaborators! https://t.co/DFM2HzZC0H

— David Manheim ✈️ #AIES2026 (Malmo, Sweden) (@davidmanheim) October 12, 2026

I look forward to joining “Trust, Dependence, and Human Oversight” as an invited panellist at #AIES2026 tomorrow in Malmö.

I will share my first-author paper: Epistemic Trustworthiness in Generative AI: A Normative Framework for Warranted Reliance in High-Stakes Workflows (1/4)

— Nimisha Karnatak (@KarnatakNimisha) October 11, 2026

Fantastic story from Stefan Larsson @lund-university.bsky.social giving the keynote today at #AIES2026

He thought he was done working on copyright law, and had moved on to AI issues – then found out that *his book on copyright* had been pirated to train LLMs via the Anthropic class-action lawsuit.

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— David Manheim (@davidmanheim.alter.org.il) 13 October 2026 at 08:22

Excellent keynote by Sandra Wachter now at #AIES2026 questioning what the public is actually getting for all the benefits and subsidies that are rained upon the AI industry.

— pettter, stuff scientist (@pettter.bsky.social) 12 October 2026 at 12:45

I will be presenting "Context and Symmetry in Auditing: A Case Study of Skeleton Inference in Motion Capture" at #AIES2026 in Poster Session 1 (today @ 5PM CEST)!

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— Emma Harvey (@emmharv.bsky.social) 12 October 2026 at 15:46

Poster sessions at AIES-26!

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— aaai.org (@aaai.org) 14 October 2026 at 00:11

The AIES-26 Proceedings are available. View each of the 4 issues at the links below:
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— aaai.org (@aaai.org) 13 October 2026 at 23:55

Irina Shklovski’s thought provoking keynote talked about whether common computing practices and tacit shared values might fundamentally conflict with the demands of Responsible AI 😲#aies2026

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— Neha Kennard (@nnkennard.bsky.social) 14 October 2026 at 08:04

This was probably my favorite paper at AIES

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— 🌶 David Gray Widder (@davidthewid.bsky.social) 15 October 2026 at 01:48

I couldn't make it to #AIES this year but want to share a thread of AIES papers relevant to the the AI Accountability Review (www.ai-accountability-review.com).

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— Nick Diakopoulos (@ndiakopoulos.bsky.social) 14 October 2026 at 15:13

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