CFP: Virtue for Generative AI

The Notre Dame Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Development of Ethics in Agents (ND-PAIDEIA) is proud to announce its first annual conference, to be held May 21-23, 2026, at the University of Notre Dame.

ND-PAIDEIA aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion and research around artificial intelligence and its impact on individuals, culture, and the broader environment, through a humanistic lens, namely, the lens of human flourishing. In coming years, ND-PAIDIEA will organize events on AI, creativity, and judgment, as well as AI and local democratic governance.

The theme for this year’s conference is Virtue for Generative AI.

We welcome submissions from researchers across disciplines, from computer science to the social sciences and the humanities. We are particularly interested in work that investigates the many and varied relationships between artificial intelligence, virtue, and flourishing, from the perspective of users as well as programmers and designers, and even machines themselves. How does - and might - AI cultivate virtuous or vicious character? How should humans interact with AI systems? What traits are likely to lead coders - the architects of AI systems - to create tech that serves flourishing? And what would it mean for an artificial agent to manifest excellence? We welcome contributions that draw on non-Western traditions of virtue alongside those that explore Western perspectives.

Submissions should include a short cv (2 pages) and a brief abstract (200-500 words). Proposals for full sessions (three papers) should include short cv’s for each participant, plus abstracts/titles for each paper and the session as a whole. Accepted submissions should prepare a 20-minute paper presentation (2500-3000 words). Abstracts and CVs must be submitted to [email protected] by 11:59pm on January 16 2026.

ND-PAIDEIA is supported by an NEH Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Grant, in partnership with the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, the Institute for Social Concerns, and the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.

Questions can be directed to [email protected].