Upcoming conferences for the AI, Media & Democracy Lab

Kimon Kieslich presenting:

• Kimon Kieslich, Sophie Morosoli, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Natali Helberger (2026). Tracing Public Risk-Benefit Trade-offs to Guide Risk Management: Insights from a Public Opinion Study for the Use of GenAI for Legal Conflict Resolution. | Preprint link
• Kimon Kieslich, Natali Helberger, Nicholas Diakopoulos. (2026). “Make It Sound Like a Lawyer Wrote It”: Scenarios of Potential Impacts of Generative AI for Legal Conflict Resolution. | Preprint link | Awarded honorable mention in the Law and Policy Division
• Nicolas Mattis, Kimon Kieslich, Claes de Vreese (2026). Feeling iffy about generative AI: When journalists disclose AI use, trust in news is lower. | Preprint link

Zilin Lin presenting:

• Zilin Lin, Claes de Vreese, Natali Helberger (2026). Type Here Your Biases: How Autocomplete Suggestions and User Predispositions co-construct Harmful Information

Gionata Bouché presenting:

• Gionata Bouché, Hannes Cools, Max van Drunen, Natali Helberger (2026). Editorial Freedom in the age of GenAI: A case study from the Netherlands | Schedule link

Pooja Prajod presenting:

• Beyond Self-Reports: Physiological signals for richer user studies | Schedule link

Sophie Morosoli presenting:

• Stanislaw Piasecki, Sophie Morosoli, Teresa Weikmann (2026). Regulating AI-generated Deepfakes: A Comparative Study of Legal Frameworks and Public Perceptions in Japan and The Netherlands | Schedule link

Teresa Weikmann presenting:

• Teresa Weikmann, Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers, Claes de Vreese (2026). Checking Facts or Adding Context? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Direct Content Interventions Against Disinformation on Social Media | Schedule link

Nicolas Mattis presenting:

• Nicolas Mattis, Teresa Weikmann, Claes de Vreese (2026). Shield or Sieve: Correcting Visual Propaganda | Schedule link

Sophie Morosoli and Teresa Weikmann are also participating to the roundtable on “Protecting Democracy in the Age of AI” (Schedule link)

Pooja Prajod co-hosting:

• Interrogating GenAI Augmentation for CHIworkers: Strategies for Professional Autonomy and Accountability | Workshop link

As Generative AI embeds into HCI workflows, balancing efficiency with accountability is critical. This workshop moves beyond disclosure toward intellectual autonomy—defining what ethical “co-thinking, co-creating, and co-augmenting with AI” looks like in professional practice.

As part of this workshop, Pooja also presented:

• Pooja Prajod, Hannes Cools, Thomas Röggla, Pablo Cesar, Abdallah El Ali (2026). Towards Gaze-Informed AI Disclosure Interfaces: Eye-Tracking Attentional and Cognitive Load While Reading AI-Assisted News | Preprint link

Paper co-authored by Laurens Naudts being presented:

• Delfina S. Martinez Pandiani, Ella Streefkerk, Laurens Naudts, Paula Helm (2026). From Vulnerable Data Subjects to Vulnerabilizing Data Practices: Navigating the Protection Paradox in AI-Based Analyses of Platformized Lives | Preprint link
  

Paper co-authored by Kimon Kieslich and Natali Helberger being presented:

• Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Natali Helberger, Nicholas Diakopoulos (2026). Informing AI Policy Assessment using Large-Scale Simulation of Interventions | Preprint link

Pooja Prajod presenting:

• Pooja Prajod, Hannes Cools, Thomas Röggla, Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj, Amber Kusters, Alia ElKattan, Pablo Cesar, Abdallah El Ali (2026). Full Disclosure, Less Trust? How the Level of Detail about AI Use in News Writing Affects Readers’ Trust | Preprint link

Agustin Ferrari Braun presenting:

• Agustin Ferrari Braun, Thomas Poell, Fernando van der Vlist (2026). Outsourcing Critical Infrastructure: Mapping News Website Ecosystems in France and the Netherlands (2015 – 2025)

Laurens Naudts presenting:

• Laurens Naudts, Natali Helberger, Michael Veale, Marijn Sax (2026). A Right to Constructive Optimization: A Public Interest Approach to Recommender Systems in the Digital Services Act | Schedule link