The symposium aims to bring together researchers from the social, behavioral, and computational sciences studying human-AI interaction and its implications for education, the workplace, and everyday life.
Symposium on Behavioral AI in Education, Work, and Decision-Making, to be held at ESSCA School of Management in Paris on 8–9 April 2026.
The symposium will feature keynote talks by leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working at the intersection of behavioral science and AI.
- Jean-François Bonnefon (Toulouse School of Economics)
- Phanish Puranam (INSEAD)
- Thomas Coustenoble (Microsoft)
- Erwan Paitel (French Ministry of Education)
Are welcomed empirical and theoretical contributions, including work that documents effects and mechanisms in the following areas:
- Productivity and Work: Workplace AI adoption, including the division of cognitive labor, task redesign, productivity and quality effects, reskilling, and handover in hybrid workflows.
- Decision Quality: AI-assisted decision-making, including cognitive offloading, judgment accuracy and calibration, algorithm aversion and appreciation, and weak or “lazy” oversight.
- Responsible AI: AI-mediated decisions, including trust and transparency, machine behavior, and responsibility and blame, as well as work using LLMs as “synthetic subjects”.
- Education: AI use in education, including effects on student learning and performance, assessment integrity and academic honesty, and integration of AI as a learning support that enhances learning outcomes.
Abstracts and full papers can be submitted via the symposium website: www.behavioralaisymposium2025.com
Submission deadline: 1 February 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2026
Thanks to the financial support of the EUonAIR Alliance, registration is free. Additionally, we are currently arranging preferential accommodation rates with local hotels for symposium participants.
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