Call for chapters: Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence

We are pleased to invite chapter contributions for the upcoming handbook on “Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence” (contracted with Edward Elgar Publishing, London). The handbook is designed as a comprehensive collection of anthropological studies on AI, covering empirical, methodological, theoretical and reflexive works emerging within the discipline of anthropology. We welcome submissions that may include original ethnographic fieldwork, conceptual or theoretical developments, methodological discussion or a combination of these.

Authors are invited to send an extended abstract (1200 words) that engage with any of the topics below:

• Anthropology and the post-human: Genealogies and current debates
• AI in the majority world
• Critical studies of AI: Coloniality, race, gender, sexualities
• Regulation, governance and politics
• AI in everyday life (care work, health, finance, farming and other fields of application)
• Art, creativity, and imagination
• Ethnographies of AI developers, labs and developer spaces, coding practices
• Geek/hacker communities, resistance and activism
• Anthropological methods with, around or against AI
• Ethics and AI
• Disinformation and extreme speech
• AI and the anthropocene (environment, cosmologies, multispecies anthropology)
• Speculative musings - what do futures with or without AI look like? What is anthropology’s stake in defining the future course of AI?
• AI, anthropology and human consciousness

Please email the abstracts with a brief bio to ai4dignity@ethnologie.lmu.de before 20 March 2024.

Please feel free to contact us using the above email ID if you have any questions.

Shortlisted abstracts will be invited to submit full chapters (6000 words, including references). Full chapters are due by 31 October 2024. The handbook will feature original contributions which are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.