Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents
Call for Papers for a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
(https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20)
Guest Editor: Colin Shunryu Garvey, Fellow, Human-Centered AI Institute, Stanford University
Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2019
This is increasingly the Age of AI. Artificial Intelligence, the suite of technologies that make machines capable of performing tasks considered “intelligent” when performed by people, is colonizing an increasing number of domains, from Internet search and social media to the natural sciences and even criminal sentencing. AI may soon become ubiquitous, coextensive with civilization itself, a taken-for-granted feature of modernity like electricity or running water.
But this does not mean that all is well: AI has, and has always had, its discontents; those who doubt, question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise “AI” as it is practiced and promoted. With the hope of scaffolding deeper understandings of both the epochal transformations being wrought by AI technologies and the range of responses these changes, this special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews will bring together reflections from practitioners, assessments from scientists in fields transformed by AI, and historically-informed accounts of AI and its critics, both past and present, in order to capture something of the significance of this historical moment for future generations.… read more. “Call: “AI and its Discontents” issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews”