Call For Papers: Special Issue on Fact vs. Fiction on AI

We invite researchers to contribute to our forthcoming special issue on Fact vs. Fiction on AI. The growing capabilities of AI have generated significant concern in society. Claims suggest it will make skills such as software development obsolete, wipe out scores of jobs, push society toward Universal Basic Income, decimate the market for Software as a Service, and even pose existential risks. Often loaded with unchallenged assumptions, much of this rhetoric remains thin on evidence-based technical assessment.

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To this end, this special issue of IEEE Internet Computing provides a forum on the impact of advances in AI based on rigorous research and technical arguments. Specifically, we invite submissions that examine how AI may transform various technical fields related to Internet Computing and/or society at large. These may range from well-defined subjects such as Software as a Service, software engineering, Internet of Things, and robotics, to broader issues such as scientific research, employment, national security, and democracy.

Submissions should leverage technical arguments in discussing AI’s impact on the topic of interest. For example, for a paper on whether AI will fundamentally reshape the current World Wide Web, we expect technical arguments for why AI will transform the current web through considerations such as data privacy and data ownership. It should address what the resulting World Wide Web would look like – whether websites will become more dynamic and interactive to pull customers/advertisement, or whether the web will become a collection of virtual private webs, and so on. Position papers that hinge on normative propositions in advocating for what AI should do instead of what it is likely to do are out of scope for this call.

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In the general format of “Fact vs. Fiction: AI will destroy or substantially restructure [topic]”, topics may include but are not limited to:

• The Internet and/or the World Wide Web
• Design of cyberphysical systems
• Computer science as a field
• Scientific research and its funding
• Internet based publishing
• Creative work
• Education, in general or specific kinds
• Jobs, in general or specific kinds
• The welfare state
• National security and defense
• Democratic governance
• Internet services ecosystem, e.g. SaaS, advertising, e-commerce
• Digital currency and/or payment infrastructure
• Distributed architectures, e.g. blockchain
• Data center including its design, operations, and management
• Cybersecurity industry
• Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systemsㅤ