ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025) Call For Papers

We invite submissions for the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars advancing research in responsible, safe, ethical, and trustworthy computing. Research from all fields is welcome, including algorithmic, statistical, human-centered, theoretical, critical, legal, and philosophical research.

The 2025 conference will be held in Athens, Greece. Conference dates will be confirmed soon.

Subject Areas

FAccT welcomes papers that advance all areas related to the broad sociotechnical nature of computing, inviting work from computer science, engineering, the social sciences, humanities, and law.

Listed alphabetically, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI red teaming and adversarial testing
• Algorithmic fairness and bias
• Algorithmic recourse
• Appropriate reliance and trust in computational systems
• Assurance testing and deployment policies
• Audits of data, algorithms, models, systems, and applications
• Critical and sociotechnical foresight studies of technologies, and related policies and practices
• Cultural impacts of computational systems
• Environmental impacts of computational systems
• Fairness, accountability, and transparency in industry, government, or civic society
• Historical, humanistic, social scientific, and cultural perspectives on FAccT issues
• Human factors in fairness, accountability, and transparency
• Intellectual property, privacy, data protection, antitrust, and mis/disinformation
• Interdisciplinarity and cross-functional teaming in fairness, accountability, and transparency work
• Interpretability/explainability
• Justice, power, and inequality in computational systems
• Labor and economic impacts of computational systems
• Licensing and liability with AI
• Moral, legal, and political philosophy of data and computational systems
• Organizational factors in fairness, accountability, and transparency
• Participatory and deliberative methods in fairness, accountability, and transparency
• Regulation and governance of computational systems
• Risks, harms, and failures of computational systems
• Science of responsible, safe, ethical, and trustworthy AI evaluation and governance
• Social epistemology of AI
• Sociocultural and cognitive diversity in design and development
• Sociotechnical design and development of data, models, and systems
• Sociotechnical evaluations of data, models, and systems
• Technical approaches to AI safety
• Threat models and mitigations
• Transparency documentation of data, models, systems, and processes
• Value alignment and human feedback
• Value-sensitive design of computational systems
• Values in scientific inquiry and technology design as related to FAccT issues

Topics that are out of scope: Work that does not have deep engagement with the social component of computational systems or that is focused on purely hypothetical concerns is considered outside the scope of the conference.

Submission Instructions

We require all submitters of papers to fully read the Author Guide, which provides details on the reviewing process, policies that must be adhered to, and other relevant instructions.

Submission System

Papers should be submitted using the HotCRP submission tool at https://facct2025.hotcrp.com/, which will open in January 2025.

Paper Length

Submissions must be no longer than 14 pages, excluding references. An additional (15th) page is permitted for authors who wish to include endmatter statements on the last page of the paper (and this extra page can only be used for these statements). See the Author Guide for more details. Accepted submissions will be allowed to include an additional content page for the camera-ready version.

Anonymity Policy

Submissions must be anonymized and may not contain any identifying information. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from the submission, as well as acknowledgements, positionality statements, competing interests statements, or other potentially identifying information. Citations to prior work from the authors should be made in the third person. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review.

Archival vs. Non-archival Submissions

FAccT offers authors the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions. Archival papers will appear in the published conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library, if they are accepted. Non-archival papers will only appear as abstracts in the proceedings, if they are accepted. Most authors use the archival option; the non-archival option is offered to avoid precluding the future submission of these papers to discipline-specific journals. Authors must indicate at the submission time whether they are submitting an archival or non-archival paper, and switching category after submission is not possible.

Concurrent/Dual Submission Policy

You may not submit papers that are identical or substantially similar to papers that are currently under review at another peer-reviewed conference or journal, have been previously published, or have been accepted for publication. Such submissions violate our concurrent submission policy and will be removed from submission. See the Author Guide for exceptions.

Style Files and Templates

We use the ACM TAPS workflow for formatting manuscripts, described here. See the formatting instructions section of the Author Guide.

Conference Attendance

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for, attend, and present the work at the conference for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. An option for virtual presentation will be available for authors who cannot attend in person with details available after paper acceptance notifications.

ACM Publication Policies

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

ORCID ID

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Program Chairs

Further questions can be directed to program-chairs@facctconference.org

• Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft Research
• Shakir Mohamed, Google DeepMind
• Sina Fazelpour, Northeastern University
• Talia B. Gillis, Columbia University

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