HATS Workshop

August 23, 2026

Workshop on Designing Human-AI Teaming for Security @ SOUPS 2026

Exploring how to balance human agency and AI autonomy in high-stakes cybersecurity decision-making.

Position Paper Submission Deadline: June 11 AoE

Topic & Goals · Call for Participation · Program · Topics · Organizers · Accepted Papers

Workshop Topic & Goals

The Workshop on Designing Human-AI Teaming for Security (HATS) addresses a central challenge for modern cybersecurity: as AI becomes more agentic, guaranteed human oversight is eroding.

HATS brings together researchers and practitioners to examine how human-AI teaming can strengthen security operations while preserving meaningful human agency in decision-making.

Objectives

Co-create design principles for human-AI teaming in cybersecurity decision-making.
Formulate actionable interaction design recommendations for research and practice.
Build interdisciplinary networks that continue beyond the workshop.

Call for Participation

We invite short position papers and contributions related to human-AI teaming in cybersecurity.

Submission deadline: June 1, 2026June 11, 2026
Notification to authors: June 15, 2026June 22, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: June 25, 2026July 1, 2026

Submission site: https://hats26.usenix.hotcrp.com/

To participate, please submit a two- to four-page position paper on decision-making and human-AI teaming in cybersecurity. Submissions must follow the SOUPS formatting template. Submissions should not be anonymised. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend in person. Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings.

Download the Call for Papers

Program

The workshop takes place on Sunday afternoon, August 23, 2026 and follows a half-day format. The detailed program will be finalized after paper acceptance.

Part 1: Shared context and lightning rounds — We begin with an introduction session, followed by short lightning talks and group formation.
Break
Part 2: Collaborative design — Groups run a guided co-design session (double-diamond inspired).
Vernissage and open discussion — Groups share outputs in a vernissage-style gallery walk, followed by open discussion and synthesis.

Topics of Interest

Example themes include (but are not limited to):

Designing appropriate automation levels and agentic AI in cybersecurity
Automation bias, trust calibration, and employee perceptions of AI decisions
Human-centric frameworks and workflows for shared security decision-making
AI-augmented threat hunting, signal processing, and SOC triage
Technical, psychological, interpersonal, and societal risks in human-AI security workflows
Error handling in AI-driven security tools and organizational implications
Deployment barriers and facilitators for human-AI collaboration in enterprise security
Human-AI teaming opportunities to address cybersecurity workforce shortages