Suvradip Maitra accepted into AIES Student Track in Madrid

Congratulations to RegNet PhD scholar Suvradip Maitra, who has been accepted into the AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES) 2025 student program. The conference will take be held in Madrid, Spain, from 20 to 22 October 2025.

The AIES student track is a competitive program that provides PhD students with targeted programming, mentorship and financial support to attend AIES. In addition to attending the conference, accepted students present their research in a lightning talk and poster session, participate in breakout groups with peers and receive mentoring from senior scholars.

Suvradip’s paper, Voice AI and Hermeneutical Injustice explores how Voice AI systems can perpetuate hermeneutical injustice by preventing marginalised individuals from equitably participating in defining the social roles that they need to make sense of their own experiences, or render themselves intelligible to others. He draws upon the use of voice biometrics at the German border to assess asylum seeker applications, and the use of accent alteration for call centre workers, to illustrate how the relevant concepts of the legitimate asylum seeker or competent call centre worker are unduly influenced by the respective Voice AI.

We wish Suvradip all the best as he takes part in this exciting program and connects with peers and leading scholars at the conference.