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SUMMARY:Artificial Companionship as Communication Infrastructure
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LOCATION:Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1010
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Call for Papers: Artificial Companionship as Communication Infrastructure</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Vienna\, 17&ndash\;19 February 2027</strong><br><strong>Conference language: German</strong><br><strong>Submission deadline: 15 September 2026</strong></p>\n<p>Generative AI systems are increasingly used not merely as tools but addressed as advisers\, tutors\, confidants\, companions\, or communicative counterparts. This raises philosophical and ethical questions concerning agency\, responsibility\, trust\, autonomy\, attribution\, and changing human&ndash\;technology relations.</p>\n<p>The 2027 Annual Conference of the German-speaking&nbsp\;<strong>Network Media Ethics (Netzwerk Medienethik)</strong>\, entitled</p>\n<p><strong>&ldquo\;Artificial Companionship als Kommunikationsinfrastruktur &ndash\; Medienethische Implikationen von KI-Partnerschaft und &Ouml\;ffentlichkeit&rdquo\;</strong></p>\n<p>invites philosophical\, ethical\, and interdisciplinary contributions addressing topics such as:</p>\n<p>&ndash\; philosophical and ethical concepts of artificial companionship<br>&ndash\; human&ndash\;AI relations and philosophy of technology<br>&ndash\; agency\, attribution\, and responsibility<br>&ndash\; trust\, autonomy\, dependency\, and epistemic authority<br>&ndash\; anthropomorphism\, personhood\, and the status of artificial counterparts<br>&ndash\; social and communicative roles of generative AI<br>&ndash\; media ethics\, AI ethics\, and digital anthropology<br>&ndash\; implications of AI companionship for communication and the public sphere</p>\n<p>The conference welcomes theoretical and empirical papers as well as panels and interactive formats.</p>\n<p><strong>Please note: The conference language is German. Submissions should therefore be suitable for presentation and discussion in German.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Conference:</strong>&nbsp\;17&ndash\;19 February 2027<br><strong>Venue:</strong>&nbsp\;Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna\, Vienna<br><strong>Abstract:</strong>&nbsp\;approx. 4\,000 characters including spaces<br><strong>Submission deadline:</strong>&nbsp\;15 September 2026</p>\n<p><strong>Conference website:</strong>&nbsp\;<a data-rich-text-autolink="">https://www.netzwerk-medienethik.de/jahrestagung/artificial-companionship/<br></a><strong>Call for Papers (PDF):</strong>&nbsp\;<a data-rich-text-autolink="">https://www.netzwerk-medienethik.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CFP-nme2027.pdf<br></a><strong>Submission via ConfTool:</strong>&nbsp\;<a data-rich-text-autolink="">https://www.conftool.net/medienethik2027/<br></a><strong>Contact:</strong>&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:tobias.eberwein@oeaw.ac.at">tobias.eberwein@oeaw.ac.at</a></p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Alexander Filipovic;CN=Matthias Rath:
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