CFP: Ethics of Artifical Intelligence

Journal: Philosophical Education (University of Warsaw)

Guest Editors: Andrea Vestrucci (University of Bamberg, Germany; ILT College, US), Sara Lumbreras (University of Comillas, Spain), and Ralph Weir (University of Lincoln, UK)

DEADLINE: March 30, 2025

The ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) is currently one of the most relevant topics of interdisciplinary research. Approaches include:

1. Practical and Applied Ethics of AI. Research into the concrete ethical challenges posed by AI systems covering key areas such as:

• Trustworthy AI (TAI) (including interpretability, reliability, robustness, privacy, safety).
• Bias and discrimination in AI decision-making systems.
• Sensitive applications of AI (educational, medical, juridical etc.) and impact on labour markets.
• Fairness, accountability, transparency, and explainability (FATE), and its distinction from or embedding in the TAI agenda.

1. AI Safety and Long-Term Challenges. Research into speculative, future-oriented, and existential issues tied to AI, addressing key topics like:

• Aligning AI systems with human values, e.g. well-being, sustainability, trust.
• Preventing catastrophic misuse or uncontrolled AI development, e.g. in automated weapons.
• Exploring AI’s potential for applications in human enhancement.
• Predicting future developments in AI and related technologies.

1. Metaethics and the Moral Status of AI. Work on theoretical questions about AIs as moral or legal persons, and the implications of AI for meta-ethics such as:

• In what sense AIs can have moral agency and can be considered the bearer of ethical rights and duties.
• The impact of AI on the foundations of ethics.
• The substitution of AIs for humans in personal relationships.

This special issue of the journal Philosophical Education (University of Warsaw) will host contributions that advance or challenge current approaches on the ethics of AI, for example by critically reflecting on key terms and concepts; scrutinising widely held positions; or defending practical strategies for the implementation of ethical AI systems.

Deadlines and Guidelines

Interested contributors are invited to send their article to [email protected] by the 31 March 2025 for full consideration. They are also welcome to send (at the same address) an abstract of the intended paper earlier, to check whether their topic is appropriate for the special issue.

Submissions should be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters (c. 4,000 and 9000 words) and should include an abstract between 800 and 1200 characters (c. 150 and 200 words), 5-8 keywords and a bibliography. Once accepted, papers will need to adhere to the journal’s formatting guidelines: http://www.edukacja-filozoficzna.uw.edu.pl/en/do-autorow/

Publishing Policy

Submissions are subjected to double-blind peer review.

Philosophical Education does not charge the authors any fees for publishing.

Authors do not transfer the copyright of their papers to the Publisher, but only grant the Publisher a non-exclusive licence (CC-BY 4.0).

We provide professional copy-editing and typesetting for all Authors.

All contributions are published both in print (one free copy for every author) and online (open access). To maximise impact, online publication will occur as soon as possible after copy-editing. We also encourage authors to upload PDF copies of their articles to other websites and repositories to make them more accessible to the public.