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SUMMARY:AI & Relationships\, Oxford Intersections: AI in Society
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Oxford Intersections: AI in Society</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Call for Abstracts\, Unit on AI &amp\; Relationships (second call)</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Abstract deadline:</strong> 31 December 2026</p>\n<p>In 2025 Oxford University Press launched Oxford Intersections\, a new resource for peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research that helps policy- and decision-makers tackle the world's most complex and urgent environmental\, cultural\, political and social challenges.</p>\n<p>Our first call produced a strong set of articles\, which you can read here: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/59762?f_BookPartTitle=Relationships</p>\n<p>We are now reopening submissions for a second call.</p>\n<p><strong>Topics of interest</strong></p>\n<p>We invite abstracts for new interdisciplinary research articles on AI &amp\; Relationships for the AI in Society Intersection\, including:</p>\n<p>&bull\; Ethical\, societal and political perspectives on friendships and romantic relationships between humans and AI systems</p>\n<p>&bull\; Perspectives on the regulation and ethical design of such systems</p>\n<p>&bull\; Empirical research on how user factors and AI system behaviours interact and affect user well-being and relationships</p>\n<p>&bull\; Perspectives or exploratory empirical work on embodied AI systems (such as social robots)</p>\n<p>&bull\; Issues arising from 'digital doubles' (LLMs fine-tuned on real humans) or 'griefbots' (LLMs designed to preserve the memory of real deceased humans)</p>\n<p>&bull\; Cultural and faith-based perspectives on human-AI relationships</p>\n<p>&bull\; The use of social AI systems with children or in eldercare contexts</p>\n<p>&bull\; The role of AI 'colleagues' or 'collaborators' in professional environments</p>\n<p>For an overview of these issues and the current state of social AI\, prospective authors may wish to read: https://philarchive.org/rec/SHEATH-4</p>\n<p><strong>Authorship</strong></p>\n<p>We welcome contributors from all disciplines\, institutions\, geographies and career stages\, including researchers\, academics\, professionals\, practitioners\, PhD students and\, occasionally\, final-year master's students.</p>\n<p><strong>Submission guidelines</strong></p>\n<p>&bull\; Manuscripts must be original and not published or under consideration elsewhere.</p>\n<p>&bull\; Accepted articles run to 5\,000-8\,000 words and are rigorously peer reviewed before publication.</p>\n<p>&bull\; Send an abstract of no more than 500 words\, with a CV\, to airelationshipscfp@gmail.com</p>\n<p><strong>Key dates</strong></p>\n<p>&bull\; Abstract deadline: 31 December 2026</p>\n<p>&bull\; Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2027</p>\n<p>&bull\; Final manuscript due: 30 March 2027</p>\n<p>More about Oxford Intersections: https://academic.oup.com/intersections/pages/about</p>\n<p><strong>General Editor:</strong> Philipp Hacker\, European University Viadrina\, Frankfurt (Oder)</p>\n<p><strong>Unit Editors:</strong> Henry Shevlin (Associate Professor\, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence\, University of Cambridge)\, and Dr Rose E. Guingrich (Center for Information Technology Policy\, Princeton University)</p>
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