AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication is an international, refereed journal established in 1986. It publishes scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short communications, systematic reviews, and book reviews on the design, use, management, and policy of information, communications and new media technologies — with particular attention to their cultural, social, cognitive, economic, ethical, and philosophical implications.
Strongly interdisciplinary in scope, the journal examines algorithms as both scientific instruments and cultural determinants, and argues for a shift from algorithmic governance shaping society to society shaping algorithms. It considers how the move from personalisation to personification of algorithmic technologies affects our ability to navigate indeterminacy — what cannot be modelled in advance, the tacit, and the excluded.
Rooted in the human-centred tradition of science and technology, AI & Society acts as a catalyst for engagement with diverse voices on the transformative impacts and critical consequences of technological mediation for human and natural ecologies. Submissions are expected to make an explicit argument on the societal dimension of research — including trust, ethics, aesthetics, bias, privacy, responsibility, and the competence of AI systems.
The journal is organised in four parts: Research, Open Forum, Curmudgeon Corner, and Reviews & Book Reviews.
