The regulation of Artificial Intelligence is at an important stage, with the European Union taking the lead through key legislative frameworks to create a safer and more accountable digital environment while safeguarding fundamental rights. However, while the European Union has outlined a clear direction in terms of regulations, their practical implementation remains an open challenge.The Imagining the IA Landscape after the AI Act (IAIL) workshop aims to explore the evolving European regulatory landscape, including the proposed Digital Omnibus, focusing on how the European rules address risks posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to fundamental rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Bringing together scholars, technologists, and policymakers, the event aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the operationalization of AI regulation, the challenges of generative AI, transparency and data access, and the broader tension between regulation and innovation.

Submission Guidelines

We encourage authors to submit both research papers and position papers. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Research papers present completed and validated research.
• Position papers present an arguable opinion about one of the workshop topics of interest.

Both types of contribution can be regular (12+ pages) or short length (5-11 pages) and should be original, and present previously unpublished work.

We also encourage authors to submit extended abstracts that present a very early stage of research or previously published work. This latter type of contributions will not be published in the proceedings.

List of Topics

• The AI ActThe Digital Omnibus

• Applications of AI in the legal domain

• The operationalization of law requirements in AI systems

• Ethical and legal issues of AI technology and its application

• Ethical and legal issues in Online Social Media

• AI and trustworthiness

• Accountability and Liability of AI

• Algorithmic bias, discrimination, and inequality

• Safety, reliance and trust in human-AI interactions

• Transparent AI, Explainability metrics and evaluation

• AI and individual rights

• AI and fundamental rights

• AI risk assessment

• The impact of AI and automatic decision-making on rule of law

• AI, democracy, and freedom of expression

• Federated learning

• Generative AI

Committees

Program Committee

• See https://iail2026.isti.cnr.it/#organization for the updated list of PC members

Organizing committee

• Francesca Pratesi (CNR - ISTI)
• Francesca Naretto (University of Pisa)
• Lorenzo Mannocci (University of Pisa)
• Roberta Savella (University of Pisa)

Publication

IAIL 2026 proceedings will be published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held in person in Brussels (Belgium)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed with tag [IAIL2026] tofrancesca [dot] pratesi [at] isti [dot] cnr [dot] it