AI & Society


AI & Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer. The editor-in-chief is Karamjit S. Gill, Brighton University. AI & Society has been running since 1987. It covers all aspects of artificial intelligence and its effects on and interaction with society.

History

The journal was originally conceived as a reaction to the attitude of Technological Determinism emerging from Silicon Valley and was designed to be the theoretical underpinning of the concept of Human-Centred Systems a concepted developed by Mike Cooley in his book Architect or Bee?.
The idea for the journal arose from the year-long secondment of Prof Karamjit Gill from 1985 to 1986 to work with Mike Cooley at the Greater London Enterprise Board. During his secondment Karamjit organised a seminar “Knowledge and Society” at the MIT in Boston with Prof Joseph Weizenbaum and the resulting discussion led to Karamjit’s suggestion to develop a journal. Mike Cooley became the founding Chairman and later Patron and Prof Karamjit Gill became, and still is, the Founding Editor-in-Chief.
AI & Society is referred to as The Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication. The first edition was titled "AI & Society: The Journal of Human Centred Systems" and the second volume was titled "AI & Society: The Journal of Machine Intelligence".

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