AI and the Self NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
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AI and the Self

Human Identity, Authenticity, and Agency in the Age of AI

AI and the Self brings together technical, empirical, social, cultural, and philosophical work on how AI systems mediate identity, agency, self-understanding, dependence, and human flourishing.

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Date December 12 or 13, 2026 Exact day to be announced
Venue Paris NeurIPS 2026 workshop week
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Workshop overview

AI systems are no longer only external tools. They are increasingly becoming interlocutors, cognitive extensions, mirrors, collaborators, and social actors that shape how people think, decide, remember, and understand themselves.

This workshop asks how AI systems construct, extend, support, or destabilize the self, and what kinds of computational, empirical, and interdisciplinary methods are needed to study those effects rigorously.

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One central aim is to move these questions closer to machine learning practice: how to measure shifts in self-concept, dependence, confidence, preference formation, and memory under repeated AI interaction; how to design personalization, memory, uncertainty, and refusal in ways that support reflection rather than over-reliance; and how to study cultural and linguistic assumptions about the self inside AI systems.

The workshop also looks at how AI changes learning, authorship, creativity, professional identity, and the meaning of human competence when systems act as tutors, collaborators, co-authors, or social companions. It builds on the earlier interdisciplinary workshop in Bonn and translates that conversation into a NeurIPS-facing research agenda.

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Calls

Reviewer and paper calls

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Schedule

One-day outline

A tentative schedule for the workshop day.

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