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2nd Workshop On Responsible TecH - WORTH 2027

February 18-19, 2027

Eller College of Management, Tucson AZ

As digital technologies become deeply embedded in organizations, markets, and everyday life, questions of ethics, responsibility, and human values move to the center of information systems research and practice. This conference brings together interdisciplinary scholars to examine how technologies can be designed, deployed, and governed in ways that respect human dignity, promote fairness, and serve the broader good. We welcome a wide range of perspectives (conceptual, empirical, design-oriented, and critical) and encourage contributions that cross disciplinary boundaries, methodological traditions, and levels of analysis (individual, organizational, and societal).

We invite full papers, short papers, work-in-progress reports, and design artifacts. Quantitative, qualitative, design-science, behavioral, computational, and conceptual approaches are all welcome. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages for full papers and 6 pages for all other categories.

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Ethical frameworks and theories for responsible technology design
  • Transparency and accountability in algorithmic and AI systems
  • Human-centered and value-sensitive design methods
  • Privacy, surveillance, and data governance
  • Trust and trustworthiness in human–AI interaction
  • Bias, discrimination, and inclusion in information systems
  • Digital well-being, attention, and technology overuse
  • Autonomy, manipulation, and dark patterns in digital platforms
  • Responsible AI governance, regulation, and compliance
  • Ethics of generative AI and large language models in organizations
  • Future of work, automation, and the human role
  • Accessibility and digital equity
  • Misinformation, content moderation, and platform responsibility
  • Corporate digital responsibility and tech ethics in practice
  • Stakeholder participation and democratic technology governance
  • Ethical challenges in emerging technologies
  • Cross-cultural and global perspectives on responsible technology

The organizers will experiment with GenAI to augment - never replace - the human review process. Submitted work will receive an AI-generated review within 3 days of submission. Authors will then have 1 week to respond to the AI-generated review. The authors can react to the AI-generated comments that are considered useful and addressable, including potential clarifications and/or additional analyses. They can also explain which comments can be considered incorrect or out-of-the scope of the study. Assigned human reviewers may then have access to the submitted work, the AI-generated review, and the response. Authors can also opt-out of the experiment at the time of the initial submission. All acceptance/rejection decisions will remain uniquely human and no submitted work will be used to train AI models. The authors and reviewers who participate will also be invited - at the end of the process - to submit feedback on their experience with the AI generated review.

Accepted papers will be considered for a Best Paper Award.

Important dates

  • Deadline for initial submissions: September 14, 2026

  • Deadline for responses to AI review: September 25, 2026

  • Acceptance decisions: October 26, 2026

  • Deadline for registration: December 18, 2026

Travel

Registration and travel details, including discounted hotel rates, will be posted soon.

Past CMI Events

1st Workshop on Responsible Technologies: April 17, 2026

Responsible Creation, Dissemination, and Consumption of Information
 
This workshop brings together interdisciplinary research examining how digital platforms shape the creation, circulation, interpretation, and governance of information in contemporary online environments. The invited papers span technical, behavioral, and economic perspectives on misinformation, disinformation, and responsibility in sociotechnical systems. They explore how crowds and algorithms can verify information, detect adverse events, and assess credibility at scale; how bots amplify and strategically shape public attention; and how sophisticated agents, design choices, labels, and fact-checking interventions can produce counterintuitive effects on belief, engagement, and reporting behavior. Several contributions address the modeling and detection of harmful content, from radical ideologies and terrorist narratives to health misinformation, while others examine the consequences of platform governance mechanisms. The collection also advances theoretical lenses, including process theories of misinformation-driven reality distortion and microeconomic models of platform incentives, bias, and polarization. Together, these works offer a rich, multi-level understanding of how information systems both mitigate and magnify societal risks, and they invite dialogue on designing more responsible, resilient, and accountable digital platforms.
 
 
Program
 
8 - 9:15  Breakfast
9:15 - 9:30  Welcome by Eller College Dean Karthik Kannan
9:30 - 11  20-min presentations, with 10 mins for Q&A
 
Drivers: Social Media and AI
11 - 11:15  Break
11:15 - 12:45  20-min presentations, with 10 mins for Q&A
 
Validation
12:45 - 2  Lunch
2 - 3:30  20-min presentations, with 10 mins for Q&A
 
Toxic content, Propaganda, and Information Infrastructures
3:30 - 3:45  Break
3:45 - 4:45  Panel discussion - moderated by Hong Zhang
 
Solutions and open questions
4:45 - 5  Closing remarks
6pm  Dinner at The Monica