General-purpose AI models enable the generation of non-consensual intimate imagery of adults (AIG-NCII) and child sexual abuse material (AIG-CSAM) with unprecedented ease. Bad actors misuse these capabilities to inflict psychological, financial, and reputational harms on victims/survivors, prompting nations to revise or enact laws prohibiting such misuse. Creating and governing systems resistant to misuse requires solving hard legal, governance, and technical problems. Researchers are tackling these problems from a variety of backgrounds, raising the need of community building to incubate new ideas, help refine existing projects, and build new collaborations that can address the urgent challenges of AIG-NCII and AIG-CSAM.
This half-day workshop aims to bring together researchers with backgrounds in usable security, HCI, trust and safety, tech policy, and law that are working on AIG-NCII and AIG-CSAM. The workshop is affiliated to the 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026). To participate in the workshop, you will need to submit a research idea that you are working on at the moment or would like to in the future. Authors of successfully peer-reviewed submission will be invited to participate to the workshop and will have the opportunity to present their idea as a lightning talk or a poster.
Date: August 23–26, 2026
Location: TBD in Hannover, Germany.
We welcome submissions from researchers at all stages, from those with ongoing or published work and practical experience to those entering from adjacent fields, relating to one of the following topics:
The workshop will start with a welcome session, followed by a keynote address, we will then transition into lightning presentations. The next portion will incluide small group discussions with a poster session.
Those interested in attending the workshop, but not presenting, are also encouraged to register for the workshop (see below).
To attend, you need to register to the workshop here.