CFP: AI & Relationships, Oxford Intersections: AI in Society

Oxford Intersections: AI in Society

Call for Abstracts, Unit on AI & Relationships (second call)

Abstract deadline: 31 December 2026

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.

Our first call produced a strong set of articles, which you can read here: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/59762?f_BookPartTitle=Relationships

We are now reopening submissions for a second call.

Topics of interest

We invite abstracts for new interdisciplinary research articles on AI & Relationships for the AI in Society Intersection, including:

• Ethical, societal and political perspectives on friendships and romantic relationships between humans and AI systems

• Perspectives on the regulation and ethical design of such systems

• Empirical research on how user factors and AI system behaviours interact and affect user well-being and relationships

• Perspectives or exploratory empirical work on embodied AI systems (such as social robots)

• Issues arising from 'digital doubles' (LLMs fine-tuned on real humans) or 'griefbots' (LLMs designed to preserve the memory of real deceased humans)

• Cultural and faith-based perspectives on human-AI relationships

• The use of social AI systems with children or in eldercare contexts

• The role of AI 'colleagues' or 'collaborators' in professional environments

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

Authorship

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.

Submission guidelines

• Manuscripts must be original and not published or under consideration elsewhere.

• Accepted articles run to 5,000-8,000 words and are rigorously peer reviewed before publication.

• Send an abstract of no more than 500 words, with a CV, to [email protected]

Key dates

• Abstract deadline: 31 December 2026

• Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2027

• Final manuscript due: 30 March 2027

More about Oxford Intersections: https://academic.oup.com/intersections/pages/about

General Editor: Philipp Hacker, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

Unit Editors: 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)