Call for Papers:

Contributions for edited volume on Personality in AI
https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=PHILOS-L;eb4c8270.2507

Deadline for submission of abstracts and CVs: End of September 2025

We invite contributions for a forthcoming edited volume under the working title “Personality in AI.” The book proposal will be submitted to a leading academic publisher, and early responses have been encouraging. The anticipated publication date is 2026.

This volume explores the diverse philosophical, scientific, ethical, and cultural dimensions of artificial intelligence systems with personalities—including conversational agents, bots, and robots. We seek a broad range of perspectives, from deeply critical to visionary and speculative (though not purely fictional). Contributions may also engage with transhumanist themes or challenge foundational assumptions about AI and personhood.

At the heart of this project are fundamental questions in ontology, ethics, and epistemology, particularly as they relate to the design, experience, evaluation, and societal impact of AI systems with human-like or non-human-like personalities.

We Welcome Perspectives From:

• Western philosophical traditions, including analytic, Anglo-American, continental, and phenomenological schools
• Non-Western philosophical traditions, including indigenous philosophies and schools rooted in global South contexts
• Religious and spiritual frameworks, including major world religions such as Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as philosophical traditions like Confucianism and Taoism
• Worldviews of marginalized peoples and ethnic groups, especially those underrepresented in contemporary AI discourse

We particularly encourage interdisciplinary submissions from philosophers, psychologists, AI researchers, cognitive scientists, ethicists, legal scholars, religious thinkers, artists, designers, and other professionals engaged with the implications of AI personality.

Key Questions May Include (but are not limited to):

• What can we realistically expect from AI systems with personalities?
• Do we want such systems, and if so, why?
• What moral, legal, or societal requirements should these systems meet?
• How can we evaluate or test the presence and quality of an AI personality?
• Can such systems be meaningfully integrated into human moral communities?
• What are the risks and benefits of anthropomorphizing artificial agents?

CONTEXT AND EXAMPLES

A sample of relevant inquiries can be found in the following presentations:

• Personality without Theory: Engineering AI Personalities – Izabela Lipinska
• Human and AI: Identical Personalities, Identical Moral Choices – Does Ontology Matter?

These are merely starting points for the broader conceptual and practical terrain we aim to explore.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Abstract length: 500+ word
• Include: A short CV (~300 words)
• Submission deadline: End of September 2025
• Submission email: personalityinAI[at]gmail.com
• Fees: There are no fees associated with contributing to this volume

AI-generated submissions: Submissions generated by large language models (LLMs) without substantial human authorship, curation, and editing will not be accepted. All final submissions should be in English edited by a native English speaker.

Please send any questions or inquiries to the same email address. We aim to respond promptly

We look forward to your proposals and to collectively shaping a deeper understanding of what it means to design, critique, and live alongside AI systems that exhibit—or simulate—personality.

VOLUME EDITORS

Dr. Roman Krzanowski
ORCID: 0000-0002-8753-0957
Ph.D., D.Phil., with degrees in engineering, philosophy, and information science. He is an assistant professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków (UPJPII). His research focuses on information systems, the philosophy of information, the philosophy of technology, and the philosophy of computing, as well as AI technology and its impact on society, ontology, metaphysics, and the ethics of human–AI relations.

Izabela Lipińska
ORCID: 0000-0002-5745-5773
Holds Master’s degrees in Philosophy, Ethics, and Pedagogy. Her research interests include AI ethics, the moral status of synthetic beings, distinctions between humans and AI, and the impact of technology on the human person and mental health.

(Additional editors may be added at a later stage.)