AI CHAOS! – 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (CHAOS’26)Co-located with ACM IUI 2026, March 23–26, 2026, in Paphos, Cyprus

As AI systems are increasingly adopted in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, autonomous driving, and criminal justice, failures may threaten human safety and rights. Human oversight serves as a crucial safeguard and layer of control, yet current approaches lack both methodological rigor and conceptual clarity. Poorly designed oversight can create dangerous illusions of safety and obscure accountability.

CHAOS’26 brings together researchers from AI, HCI, psychology, law, and policy to address these challenges by asking:

• How can we design AI systems that enable meaningful human oversight?

• What methods effectively communicate system states and risks?

• How do we ensure scalable and effective interventions?

Through papers, talks, and interactive group discussions, participants will identify key oversight challenges, examine stakeholder roles, explore supporting tools, methods, and regulatory frameworks, and work toward a collaborative research agenda for effective human oversight in responsible AI deployment.We especially encourage submissions from diverse disciplines to foster rich, interdisciplinary dialogue.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

We welcome:

• Full papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references) describing mature or ongoing research on oversight of AI systems.

• Posters / position papers describing novel ideas, work-in-progress, or perspectives on oversight challenges.

Format: CEUR-ART template (see CEUR submission guidelines)

List of Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Current challenges in human oversight of AI systems

• Diverse stakeholder roles in oversight

• Theoretical models and frameworks for evaluation

• Methods, tools, processes, and resources to support oversight

• Regulatory measures, public policies, and industry standards

• Design- and interface-related opportunities and challenges

• Trade-offs between risk-mitigating oversight and human autonomy, development, and self-efficacy

Workshop Format

Planned activities include lightning introductions, invited talks (covering technical, psychological, and policy perspectives), a minute-madness session with posters for accepted papers, breakout group sessions, and a closing panel synthesizing key takeaways.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: December 19, 2025

• Notification to authors: February 2, 2026

• Camera-ready papers: February 14, 2026

• Workshop date: March 23, 2026

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Tim Schrills, University of Lübeck, Germany

• Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Markus Langer, University of Freiburg, Germany

• Harmanpreet Kaur, University of Minnesota, USA

• Ujwal Gadiraju, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands