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Affinity Event Thu, Dec 10, 2026 • 6:30 PM – 11:30 PM AEDT Palais des congrès Room 152

Queer in AI and {Dis}Ability in AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2026

Esmeralda S. Whitammer ⋅ Sharvani Jha ⋅ B.V. Alaka ⋅ Alex Markham ⋅ Pranav Agrawal ⋅ Claas A. Voelcker ⋅ Maria Skoularidou ⋅ William Agnew ⋅ Organizers of QueerinAI ⋅ Beckett LeClair ⋅ Alissa Valentine ⋅ Ashwin Singh ⋅ Virginia K. Felkner

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Schedule

Time zone: Conference local time zone

8:00 PM

Introduction to Queer in AI

Pranav Agrawal

8:15 PM

Keynote

Levent Sagun

9:00 PM

Networking Break

10:00 PM

Networking Break

11:00 PM

Closing Remarks and Lunch

Lilla Vicsek

Nationwide AI Models for Depression Prediction: Regional Generalizability and Culturally Sensitive Variable Selection

Alissa Valentine ⋅ Helen Coupland ⋅ Eike Petersen ⋅ Emily E Beaman ⋅ Merete Osler ⋅ Aasa Feragen ⋅ Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen

Beyond Accuracy: Distilling Foundation Models into Interpretable and Stable Predictors

Athyrson Ribeiro ⋅ Caio Rhoden ⋅ Marcos M. Raimundo

Generative AI for Developers with Disabilities

Daria Ana-Maria Mogoș ⋅ Ayushi Rastogi ⋅ Emeralda Sesari ⋅ Federica Sarro

One-Night Personalization Improves YASA-Target Wearable Sleep-Duration Estimation in Autistic Adolescents

Rohit Ramachandran ⋅ Shreyas Chatterjee

Language models reduce news variety and national outlets' visibility for users in Latin America

Francisco W Kerche ⋅ Franziska Sofia Hafner ⋅ Felix M Simon ⋅ Luc Rocher

When AI Knows Your Politics: How Chatbots Change Their Responses about LGBTQ+ People and Immigrants

Bendegúz H V.

Resisting Surveillance AI: Mechanisms of Accountability Evasion and Community Engagement

Pranav Agrawal

Enabling Accessible Eye Screening: Privileged Bilateral Learning for Monocular Inference in Individuals with Disabilities

Lisa Tang

Measuring Queerness: Operationalization of Gender and Sexuality in AI Benchmarks

Laura Pföhler

False Rejections, True Identities: Facial Biometric Verification and the Structural Exclusion of Transgender Users in Brazil's Digital Identity Infrastructure

JAYSA K S BARBOSA

Applying Frame-Based Semantic Patterns for The Identification of Violence Against the LGBTQIAPN+ Population

Kenneth Brown ⋅ Tiago Timponi Torrent ⋅ Arthur Lorenzi

Beyond Accuracy: A Survey of Generalized Additive Models and the Underutilization of Their Interpretability

Athyrson Ribeiro ⋅ Marcos M. Raimundo

Fair and Representative Clustering for Data Summarization

Ashwin Singh ⋅ Ashwin Singh

Excluded by default: The hostile design of binary gender as state-algorithmic infrastructures

Christoffer Andersen

From Trait Vectors to Circuits: Tracing Refusal and Sycophancy Through Language Models

Oscar Miró López-Feliu ⋅ Maya Ozbayoglu

Where Does Reasoning Fail? Controlled Analogy Evaluation for Lower-Resource Languages

Ashray Gupta

The right to inclusion in AI-infused education

Beckett LeClair