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<p><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-weight:700">Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Call for Papers for a special issue of </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-style:italic">Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-style:italic">Guest Editor: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Colin Shunryu Garvey, Fellow, Human-Centered AI Institute, Center for
International Security & Cooperation, Stanford University
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-style:italic">Journal Editor: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, Dept. of Digital Humanities, King’s College
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">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.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">But this does not mean that all is well: AI has, and has always had, its </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-style:italic">discontents</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">; 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 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-style:italic">Interdisciplinary
Science Reviews </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">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.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">A few questions worth pondering might be:
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Who are AI’s discontents and how have they contended with the technology’s advance?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">How has AI been challenged in areas from scientific knowledge production to daily life?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">What is being left out of the increasingly dominant “machine learning” paradigm, and why?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Where is the line drawn between “AI” and everything else, and who patrols that boundary?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Why has criticism been regarded differently in AI than in other technosciences?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Contributions can range in length from reflective contributions of only a few pages to full research
articles (maximum of 8000 words including citations and references, in most cases). The deadline for
abstracts is </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-weight:700">November 15, 2019</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">. Final papers will be collected </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-weight:700">January 15, 2020</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">. The issue will be
finalized by mid-March and sent to press for a projected </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";font-weight:700">June 2020 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">release.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond"">Please contact Colin Shunryu Garvey with any questions or proposals: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Garamond";color:rgb(95,95,95)"><a href="mailto:shunryu@stanford.edu">shunryu@stanford.edu</a>
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