22 & 23 October 2026, University of Salzburg
Organizers: Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg) & Karoline Reinhardt (Passau)
22 October 2026
13.30 – 14.30 AI Ethics and Child Ethics in Early Child Education by Ingrid Stapf & Jessica Heesen (Tübingen), Nicole Krämer & Natalia Szymczyk (Duisburg-Essen), Ute Schmid & Alisa Véronique Münsterberg (Bamberg)
14.45 – 15.45 Toward a Child-Centered AI: Beyond Adult-Centrism by Corrado Claverini (Salento)
16.00 – 17.00 Protecting the Autonomy of Young Chatbot Users’ Normative Stances
by Ron Aboodi (Munich)
17.15 – 18.15 Between Feeling and Having Agency: Children in the Age of AI
by Leslye Dias Duran (Oxford) & Carina Prunkl (Oxford)
23 October 2026
09.00 – 10.00 Epistemic Faultlines in the Silicon Sampling of Children and Adolescents
by Sakshi Ghai (LSE)
10.15 – 11.15 Deciding for Others: Proxy Consent, Explainability, and the Temporal Limits of Autonomy in Pediatric AI by Rosa E Martin-Peña & Theodor Uden (Hannover)
11.30 – 12.30 Children and Digital Vulnerability: The Pediatric Gap in Medical AI
by Vanessa Schaeffner (Ulm)
Draft papers will be circulated among all participants two weeks prior to the workshop. Presenters are expected to attend in person for the entire duration. Papers from this workshop will be submitted for a Special Issue in AI and Ethics. More info on this topical collection here: https://link.springer.com/collections/jhfhiiheaj
Organizers
Karoline Reinhardt is Professor of Applied Ethics with a focus on digitalization at the University of Passau. She has published several articles on trust and trustworthiness, explainability and diversity., among others, „ Trust and Trustworthiness“ (AI & Ethics 2023) and „ XAI: On Explainability and the Obligation to Explain“ (Digital Society 2025) as well as several other papers in AI Ethics.
Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the University of Salzburg. His publications include the co-authored monograph „ What is a Good Childhood? A Philosophical Approach“ (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) and the recent monograph „ Global Justice for Children“ (Routledge 2025).
References
Collyer-Hoar, Gail, and Elisa Rubegni. 2025. „“Won’t somebody please (actually) think of the children?” AI Ethics for Children: A Scoping Review.“ ACM J. Responsib. Comput. 2 (2):Article 10. doi: 10.1145/3745031
Wang, Ge, Jun Zhao, Max Van Kleek, and Nigel Shadbolt. 2024. „Challenges and opportunities in translating ethical AI principles into practice for children.“ Nature Machine Intelligence 6 (3):265-270. doi: 10.1038/s42256-024-00805-x.
