Workshop info: https://sites.google.com/view/aielections

Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4ce2024 

Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada,

Conference dates: February 20 - February 27, 2024 [Registration information]

This workshop will be held on February 26, 2024

The objectives of the workshop are:

1. To provide a forum for discussing new approaches and challenges in building AI for conducting elections, and for exchanging ideas about how to move the area forward. In the past two instances, it has facilitated cross-geographical exchange of ideas using case studies and experts from countries such as the US, India, Estonia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, and elsewhere. The workshop thus provides diverse insights into election processes and the role of AI.

2. To promote trustworthy AI. The workshop explores innovative approaches and methodologies that enhance the trustworthiness of AI technologies used in election processes, addressing concerns related to disinformation, security, and transparency.

3. To advance transparency. The workshop discusses strategies for promoting transparency in the election process, including the use of technology for data management, validation, and the establishment of best practices.

4. To address open research problems. The workshop encourages the identification and discussion of open research problems in the field of AI for credible elections, with a focus on areas where Trusted AI can offer solutions.

The workshop welcomes contributions on all aspects of elections and voting, but especially focus on the use of AI in the following:

●  For voters

• Helping groups with special needs, like seniors or first-time voters, understand elections processes

• Helping voters understand issues, candidates and parties

• Reducing cost of voting

●  For candidates

• Organizing candidate campaigns

• Detecting, informing and managing mis- and dis-information

• Managing narratives: candidate, party and opposition

●  For election organizers

• Identifying and validating voters

• Informing voters about election information understandably

• Possible legal and regulatory gaps and solutions

• Assessing pulse of voting

• Expediting results computation and dissemination

●  Cross-cutting

• Detecting, informing and managing election mis and disinformation as well as increasingly sophisticated Deep Fakes.

• Promoting transparency in the election process

• Technology for data management and validation

• Standardizing a secure stack for verifying AI innovations 

The intended audience of the workshop are students, academic researchers, professionals involved in technology for election management and informed voters.

In terms of AI methods, all are welcome, including:

• Collaborative assistants, a.k.a, chatbots

• Neuro-symbolic methods

• Trusted AI - explanations, robustness, fairness, auditability

• Generative AI - including text, audio, image and video

To promote reproducibility and creating common baselines, we also welcome

• New datasets and use of existing datasets that enable use of AI in conducting elections

• Metrics for evaluating the impact of AI in the election process

• Identify synergies in conducting elections across different geographies

Workshop format: The workshop's program will be organized into about 4 sessions based on technical areas from technology (AI, security) or humanities (political science, journalism). Sessions include invited speakers, paper presentations and panel discussions. 

Paper preparation instructions

Submission Format: either extended abstracts (4 pages) or full papers (7 pages) anonymised using the AAAI 2024 style guidelines found here.

Papers may contain an unlimited number of pages for references and appendices. The latter may not necessarily be read by the reviewers. We request and recommend that authors rely on the supplementary material only to include minor details (e.g., hyperparameter settings, reproducibility information, etc.) that do not fit in the page limit. The submission process is double-blind.

All accepted papers will be presented in a virtual poster session. We welcome articles currently under review or papers planned for publication elsewhere. Submissions site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4ce2024

Publication: There will be no formal publication of workshop proceedings. However, the accepted papers will be made available online on the workshop website and will count as non-archival reports to allow submissions to future conferences/journals.

Important Dates 

• Workshop paper submissions due: November 30, 2023

• Notification to authors: December 11, 2023

• Camera-ready copies of authors’ papers: December 18, 2023

• Early-bird registration to the conference: December 20, 2023

• Workshop date: February 26, 2024

Workshop Organizers

Biplav Srivastava (University of South Carolina), Anita Nikolich (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign), Andrea Hickerson (University of Mississippi), Tarmo Koppel (Tallinn University of Technology), Chris Dawes (New York University), Sachindra Joshi (IBM Research), Ponnaguram Kumaraguru (International Institute of Information Technology)