[Air-L] Call for Contributions: ECSCW 2025 Workshop on Malicious Use of AI ? Value-Sensitive Perspectives (Newcastle, July 1)

[Blasiak, Kevin Marc]

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Dear colleagues,
 
We are pleased to invite contributions to the ECSCW 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop:
 
Shifting the Conversation on Malicious Use of AI: A Value-Sensitive Approach for Stakeholder Consensus
 
Date: July 1, 2025 (half-day workshop)
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Submission Deadline: May 26, 2025 (23:59 UTC+2)
 
Workshop Overview:
As AI technologies become deeply embedded in society, they drive both innovation and an alarming rise in malicious uses including disinformation, cyberattacks, surveillance, and online radicalization. These threats are not isolated technical challenges. They are sociotechnical problems rooted in the interplay of technology design, governance, collaborative work, and shifting regulatory systems. Malicious AI use often combines organized campaigns with distributed grassroots dynamics, making it difficult to address through technical solutions alone.

This half day workshop will use a Value Sensitive Design (VSD) lens to reframe how we understand and respond to AI enabled threats. Participants will collaboratively explore ethical, organizational, and policy dimensions of AI governance. We aim to foster actionable strategies that consider not only the technological infrastructures enabling these risks but also the broader sociotechnical ecosystems and work practices that can mitigate them. The workshop will include expert panels featuring stakeholders from industry and government or policy sectors (names to be announced) and will foster rich interdisciplinary dialogue across a range of fields including, but not limited to, CSCW, information systems, cybersecurity, and trust and safety. Through collaborative activities, we seek to co develop pathways for ethical AI governance that are inclusive, practical, and grounded in real world experience. Participation is open to all interested researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders.
 
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
Sociotechnical mechanisms enabling or mitigating malicious AI use
AI threats in content moderation, trust & safety, OSINT, and cybersecurity
Case studies on platform governance or regulatory adaptation
VSD-informed approaches to ethical AI governance
Empirical or theoretical explorations of AI-related harms
Strategies for multi-stakeholder collaboration in high-risk environments
Organizational adaptation to AI threats in public and private sectors
Lessons learned from cross-sector governance successes and challenges
 
Submission Details:
Format: Short position paper (2–4 pages) or equivalent (white paper, case study, or theoretical piece). Submissions will be reviewed by the organizers for relevance, quality, and their potential to contribute to workshop discussions. Accepted position papers will be shared among participants ahead of the workshop.
Submission Email: kevin.blasiak (at) tuwien.ac.at
Deadline: May 26, 2025 (23:59 UTC+2)
Notification of Acceptance: Early June, 2025
Selected participants will engage in panel discussions, breakout groups, and contribute to a co-authored post-workshop report. To ensure focused and productive dialogue, the workshop will be limited to 20 participants.
 
Full Call & Submission Details:
Call website: https://cts.wien/en/misc/20250429_responsiblecomputing_ecscwcallproposals/


Organizers:
Kevin M. Blasiak, PhD – Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Vienna | Leader, Responsible Computing Circle, Center for Technology & Society (CTS)
Daniel E. Levenson, MA, MLA – PhD Student, Swansea University | Board Member, Society for Terrorism Research
 
Workshop Sponsors:
CTS//circle.responsibleComputing, TU Vienna
Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) at Swansea University, Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC)
 
We look forward to your submissions and hope to see many of you in Newcastle!
 
Best regards,


Kevin M. Blasiak & Daniel E. Levenson
 


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Kevin M. Blasiak, PhD [he/him]
Postdoctoral researcher, 
Circle lead, responsibleComputing 

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