CFP: LLMs and digital autonomy: from misinformation to context collapse

The conference will be held September 5-7, 2025, at the University of Bucharest, Romania, as part of "The effects of LLM interaction in digital and virtual environments on TOM" ICUB grant in enhancing institutional performance at the University of Bucharest, gathering a research team from Philosophy, Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology and Evolutionary Biology.

It will have a mixed format, in that speakers may choose whether they present online only or face to face at the event's location (if so, their session will enjoy a live audience, but it will also be streamed to remote participants). Regular presentations will be 30 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes long Q&A and 10 minutes breaks.

The conference explores the ways in which LLMs impact the autonomy of users in the digital environment. It targets the issues raised by interacting with such AI, especially when it comes to data privacy of users, data control (the ways in which users get to choose what happens with their data), and the ways in which they influence users' decision-making process.

Panels include, but are not limited to:

1. LLMs, privacy and data control - how LLMs bear on user autonomy.

2. LLMs and their impact on misinformation, echo chambers, fake news and context collapse (opportunities and risks).

3. Accountability, confidentiality, responsibility and intellectual rights attribution when LLMs collaborate with human users (data generation such as text production; therapy bots;

4. Do users and LLMs interact epistemically? Are LLM outputs reliable? What leads to epistemic dependence on LLMs?  Should it be prevented? If so, how?

We encourage researchers at all levels to contribute abstracts related to ongoing and recent approaches to LLM-related speech acts and/or how these relate (or shift) the evolutionary origins of communicative acts.

Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 300 words (excluding references). Abstracts will receive full consideration if sent before June 30th 2025 to [email protected] as PDF attachments with the message titled "Abstract LLMs and digital autonomy". They will go through blind peer review from a local scientific committee. (Identifying details in the email body, abstract anonymized.) Notifications of acceptance to be sent out on July 10th.