CogSec 2026 — Cognitive Security for Human–AI Systems

The risk lies instead in how these systems shape attention, belief formation, memory, judgment, and agency across many interactions — and in how they reshape collective sensemaking. CogSec proposes cognitive security — the integrity of the conditions under which people and groups reason for themselves — as a research agenda spanning HCOMP (AI-assisted decision-making, over- and under-reliance, oversight) and CI (misinformation, deliberation, civic decision-making).Call for participation We welcome short papers, position papers, demos, and datasets: 2–6 pages, excluding references, in the ACM Primary Article Template — or an extended abstract plus a demo description Non-archival, so work-in-progress is welcome and you keep the rights to publish the full version elsewhere Single-blind review — no need to anonymize Accepted work appears as a lightning talk and/or poster Topics: over- and under-reliance on AI · cognitive vulnerabilities · persuasion and manipulation · misinformation and prebunking · provenance and deepfake detection · frictional design · governance — and adjacent work of all kinds. Deadline: August 17, 2026 (AoE) · Notifications: August 20 · Workshop: September 27 👉 Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cogsec2026📄 Full call for participation: https://noetx.github.io/cogsec-2026/ Attending The workshop is hybrid — join in person in Washington, DC or remotely. ⚠️ Please note: RSVP'ing here is not conference registration. Attending CogSec means registering for HCOMP / CI 2026 at the workshop-day rate. We'll post the registration link here as soon as the conference publishes it. Questions? Email [email protected].