Call for Papers: AI in Society, Oxford Intersections

Are you interested in AI's social impacts in the majority world? Here is your opportunity to contribute to a groundbreaking publication that influences policy and decision-making worldwide.

This year, Oxford University Press will be launching a new type of resource: Oxford Intersections. Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world’s most complex and urgent environmental, cultural, political, and social challenges. 

We invite abstracts for new interdisciplinary research articles on a range of topics related to AI in the Majority World for the AI in Society Intersection. Specifically, we seek articles on the following topics:

• AI applications and their social impacts in the majority world, including AI and Global Health; AI, Agriculture, and Food Security; AI and Education; AI and Labour; AI and Regional Trade and Investment; AI and sustainability; the impacts of Generative AI; AI and Social Protection; scaling AI in low-resourced contexts.

• AI governance and ethics in the majority world, including AI Ethics and Development; AI and epistemic justice; AI Governance and the Developmental State; investigating global value chains.

• Gender and inclusion in AI, including AI and inequality; AI, gender inclusion, and women’s empowerment; women in AI leadership; AI and Financial Inclusion; inclusive critical digital literacy.

Oxford Intersections welcomes contributors from diverse backgrounds, spanning disciplines, institutions, geographies, and career stages. Authors may include researchers, academics, professionals, practitioners, PhD students, and on occasion final-year master’s students.

‍Submission Guidelines:

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

• If accepted, articles should run between 5-8K words and will be rigorously peer reviewed before publication.

• To be considered, submit abstracts of no more than 500 words with CVs to leah@globalcenter.ai

Key Dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 01 March 2025

• Notification of Acceptance: 15 March 2025

• Final Manuscript Due: 01 May 2025

More about AI in Society

AI in Society will bring together scholarly research that explores how AI has transformed (and continues to transform) the world we live in, both positively and negatively, and the challenges and debates it brings along. An increasingly ubiquitous topic in news and media, how AI is understood—or misunderstood—in the global conversation, how researchers, consumers, and citizens contend with its implications for privacy, trust, security, and governance, will drive innovation and policy at the local, national, and international level for generations to come.

Accepted manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure academic standards and relevance to the overall ethos of the Intersections project. Please see more here: https://academic.oup.com/intersections/pages/about

General Editor:

Philipp Hacker, Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Unit Editors:

Rachel Adams (Global Center on AI Governance/African Observatory on Responsible AI), Fola Adeleke (Global Center on AI Governance/African Observatory on Responsible AI), Urvashi Aneja (Digital Futures Lab), and Leah Junck (Global Center on AI Governance/African Observatory on Responsible AI)

For further inquiries, please contact OxfordIntersections.Editorial@oup.com or leah@globalcenter.ai