Collocated with ACM KDD 2024, the first workshop on AI Behavioral Sciences (AIBS 2024) calls for broad discussions on the concept of AI behavioral science, which represents an emerging field that seeks to understand, model, and direct how AI behaves. Critical questions include: Do AIs have personalities? How to describe the patterns of AI behaviors? How to quantify the similarity between AI and humans behaviorally? How to conceal the objectives of AI (rather than generating next words) and align them with the distribution of human objectives? How to model and optimize human-AI collaboration? What are the unique challenges in AI behavioral studies (e.g., sensitivity in prompting)? What is the key difference between AI behavioral science and human behavioral science? Do we need to design new experiment methodologies and measurements tailored for AI? What could be the potential applications (e.g., AI agents)?

The workshop aims to create a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform that brings together researchers from different fields, especially generative AI, data mining, and behavioral sciences to discuss these questions. By fostering an open and forward-looking environment, our ultimate goal is to facilitate discussions on the current landscape of AI behavioral science at large. This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to share insights, exchange ideas, and explore innovative approaches in the field.

Submission Guidelines

The workshop welcomes submissions describing original research findings as well as relevant studies that are published recently in high-quality venues. 

• Previously unpublished manuscripts should be submitted as a PDF file in no longer than 4 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices), according to the new ACM format published in ACM guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample (see the guideline of KDD 2024). Appendices should be included in the same file with the main manuscript. 
• Manuscripts that have been published (including publically available preprints) can be submitted in its original format and will be lightly reviewed. 
• All submissions should be made through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aibs2024. 

Important Dates

All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

• Submission deadline: May 28, 2024
• Acceptance notification: June 28, 2024
• Camera-ready version due: July 11, 2024
• Workshop: August 26, 2024

Publications

This workshop is non-archival. Relevant findings that have been published recently are welcome to be submitted to the workshop. For already published studies (including preprints), the paper can be submitted in the original format. Already peer-reviewed submissions will be lightly reviewed for their relevance to this workshop.

List of Topics

• Insights from comparing AI behavior with human behavior.
• Game theoretical approaches to human-AI interaction.
• Empirical or theoretical analysis on the objectives, utilities, and rationality of AI.
• New developments in aligning LLMs with diverse human behaviors, preferences, and objectives.
• New experimental designs and measurements for AI behavioral science research.
• Applications of AI to investigating human behaviors, including but not limited to economics, psychology, sociology, education, healthcare, and future of work.
• Ethics of AI behavioral science, including but not limited to studies that promote fairness, diversity, and representation, benefiting individuals, groups, and society at large.

Committees

Organizing committee

• Himabindu Lakkaraju (Harvard University)
• Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan)
• Chenhao Tan (University of Chicago)
• Jie Tang (Tsinghua University)
• Yutong Xie (University of Michigan)

Venue

The workshop will be held at the ACM KDD conference in Barcelona, Spain on August 26, 2024.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to aibs2024 AT easychair.org