Collections and calls for papers

Responsible use of AI in Art Creation and Archival Practice

This topical collection seeks contributions from the broader scholarly international community conducting research in the responsible use of AI in art creation and in archival practice. It aims to draw toget...

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AI and Democracy: Transformative Impacts, Challenges, and Solutions

This topical collection of AI & Society invites researchers and experts from the wider community interested in AI and its interaction with political science, social sciences, and governance to submit origina...

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AI in Asia: Social and Ethical Concerns

This collection is opened to Asian Social and Ethical concerns related to AI. Asia is a large continent, with highly diverse religious and cultural systems, variations in industrial development, differing ap...

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AlgoNomy: algorithmic normativity in healthcare

This topical collection of AI & Society examines emerging shifts in healthcare through an interdisciplinary lens, and has been developed within the framework of the funded projects “AlgoNomy” and “HeLDEn”. B...

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Beyond Art+Science

The AI & Society Journal, nearing its fourth decade, now calls for a special collection responding to this question: Given that algorithmic technology is the most pervasive kind of contemporary technicity, w...

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Ethics and Autonomous Vehicles: Understanding the ethical issues that arise with the introduction of self-driving and highly automated Vehicles

Understanding the societal and ethical implications of AI systems such as autonomous vehicles inherently involves many concerns: the nature and capabilities of these technologies, how humans can and should u...

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Cultural Workers and Generative AI

Since the unprecedented agreement that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) managed to negotiate in relation to the use of generative AI in the workplace in 2023, cultural workers—in sectors such as music, fil...

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Generative AI in Education

The accelerating adoption of generative AI in education—most notably through tools such as ChatGPT—presents both transformative potential and significant challenges for teaching, learning, and academic life....

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Tacit Engagement Beyond the Digital Age

Further developments in AI agency as seen in ChatGPTs, LLMs and social media platforms, show both potentials and limitations for their benefits to society. We have reached a crossroads in our relations and c...

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Indigenous Knowledge Systems and AI

In the context of Indigenous knowledge systems and artificial intelligence (AI), artificial intelligence has the ability to reshape how we understand and engage with knowledge across different domains. As kn...

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Emerging Role of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in AI

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) are essential pillars for the advancement of ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI. This collection aims to ...

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AI Technology as Human Interaction – Linguistic and Cultural Framings of AI as Communicative Infrastructure

In ongoing AI technology debates, people often assign agency and autonomy to machines. And yet, treating large language models, voice assistants, or other AI technologies as autonomous entities misses the cr...

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Critical Code Studies and Code Conversations

We all begin with ‘Hello World!’. The command is the traditional first line of code written by programming students, and reveals a whole ontology of the discipline, demonstrating that “code exists not for ma...

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AI and the planetary Poly-Crisis: Climate, Sustainability, and Global Governance

This topical Collection of AI & Society (AI&S) will expand critical scholarly research by introducing and investigating AI in a climate change and sustainability context. The aim of the collection is to cont...

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Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI

An interdisciplinary panel of scholars operating within and across disciplines such as science and technology studies, cognitive science, anthropology, media studies, geography, computer science, and critica...

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Digital Human Twins – our future data selves

This Collection is driven by the speculative, research-led practice project of Lead Editor Ghislaine Boddington, following her extensive research into the representation of the living body in virtual physica...

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When data turns into archives: making digital records more accessible with AI

The overall aim of this collection is to explore how AI can help improve the preservation, access and usability of digital and born-digital archives. It focuses on the perspective and the challenges that AI ...

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Perspectives on Tacit Engagement in Music

The interplay of tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge form a major part of our music engagement with sound production, performing concepts, and mediation through technology. This happens on a rather contin...

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The Impact of Generative AI on Human Creativity

This topical collection of AI & Society will expand critical scholarly research by examining both the current and future impacts of Generative AI technologies on human creative practice, creativity, and cult...

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