AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES)

AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES)

Conference positioning

AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) is a top computer-science conference venue for AI ethics, governance, accountability, safety, social impacts, and socio-technical methods. It rewards a socio-technical AI paper that combines technical detail with normative or empirical social analysis. Treat this skill as a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool for conference submission strategy, not as a substitute for the current year's CFP, author kit, ethics policy, or submission portal.

Because CS conferences change deadlines, templates, page limits, review workflow, artifact rules, AI-use policy, and rebuttal formats every cycle, always verify the live official instructions before making a submission-ready recommendation. Start from the official source anchor recorded for this venue in ../../resources/conference-roster.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md.

When to trigger

• The author names AIES / AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society as the target venue.
• A manuscript in AI ethics needs a conference-fit read before being formatted or submitted.
• The paper must be re-framed from journal style or arXiv style into a selective CS conference narrative.
• The author needs an evidence-gap, anonymity, artifact, rebuttal, or re-routing diagnosis for this venue.

Scope & topic fit

• Core fit: AI ethics, governance, accountability, safety, social impacts, and socio-technical methods.
• Best submissions make a precise contribution type visible: algorithm, theorem, system, dataset, benchmark, empirical finding, design artifact, tool, or socio-technical analysis.
• The paper should explain why the result matters to AIES's reviewers, not just why it is interesting to the authors' lab or product context.
• Position related work against the most recent conference-cycle papers in this venue and its closest siblings; stale comparisons are a common early-review weakness.
• If the contribution is interdisciplinary, state which part is CS research and which part is domain evidence.

Venue-specific calibration

• Reviewer lens: Treat AIES as a AI ethics and society venue whose reviewers expect the scope and evidence to match its own community. Do not submit a generic CS paper until the introduction names the exact subcommunity, contribution type, and proof or empirical standard.
• Contribution hook to foreground: the venue-specific contribution bar.
• Scope vocabulary to use naturally in the abstract and introduction: AI ethics, governance, accountability, safety, social impacts, and socio-technical methods.
• Distinctive fingerprint for reviewer calibration: ethics, governance, accountability, safety, social, impacts, socio-technical, methods, venue-specific, contribution, society, aies-conference.
• Official anchor domain: www.aies-conference.com. Quote annual rules only after opening that source and the current-year CFP/author kit.

Close-neighbor routing guardrail

• Use this profile only when the manuscript's central contribution is genuinely in AI ethics and society and the author can say why AIES reviewers are the primary audience, not merely a convenient deadline.
• Closest roster neighbors to compare before final routing: international-conference-on- principles-and-practice-of-constraint-programming (CP), integration-of-constraint- programming-artificial-intelligence-and-operations-research (CPAIOR), acm-conference-on- fairness-accountability-and-transparency (FAccT), `european-conference-on-artificial-