About AI-SS 2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly embedded in safety- and mission-critical domains such as healthcare, transportation, energy, and nuclear environments. However, the integration of AI brings new dimensions of risk, uncertainty, and adversarial vulnerability that challenge traditional safety and security assurance methods.

This workshop aims to bridge the dependability and AI research communities by addressing fundamental and practical challenges in AI safety, security, and trustworthiness. It will provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, discuss methodologies, and explore standards and regulatory frameworks supporting safe and secure AI adoption in critical systems.

Themes, goals, topics and relevance to the EDCC community

Topics of Interest

The workshop welcomes submissions covering one or more of the following topics (including but not limited to):

• Foundations of AI safety, reliability, and assurance
• Secure and resilient machine learning
• LLM safety, security and privacy
• Adversarial robustness and mitigation strategies
• AI-driven cyber security risk analysis
• Formal verification and validation of AI models
• Trustworthy AI in safety-critical systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles, nuclear industry, healthcare and finance)
• Human–AI interaction safety and cognitive trust
• Legal and regulatory aspects of AI safety and security
• Ethical, fairness and transparency aspects of AI safety and security
• AI for dependability enhancement and system resilience
• Federated learning and privacy-preserving AI
• AI incident analysis and failure recovery mechanisms
• New datasets and benchmarks for AI safety and security
• Comparative studies of AI safety and security

Accepted papers will be included in a companion proceedings of EDCC 2026, which will be published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and be submitted for possible publication in IEEE Xplore.

Technical Sponsors

AI-SS 2026 is proudly sponsored by:

CRANE AI-Cyber SIG (Special Interest Group on AI and Cyber Security)
IEEE UK and Ireland Communications Chapter
IEEE UK and Ireland Computational Intelligence Chapter
IEEE UK and Ireland Computer Society Chapter
IEEE UK and Ireland Electronic Packaging and Reliability Joint Chapter
IEEE UK and Ireland Robotics & Autonomous Systems Chapter
IEEE UK and Ireland Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) Chapter
IEEE UK and Ireland Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Chapter