Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly embedded in nearly every part of our lives. While this widespread integration offers immense opportunities, it also raises a wide range of ethical, legal, and social aspects (ELSA) or implications (ELSI) that require serious attention. Recent theoretical and empirical research has shown that these aspects often manifest at multiple, interconnected levels (Wang & Blok, 2025; Ryan et al., 2024; Bolte & van Wynsberghe, 2024) — from ethical and legal concerns at the level of newly designed artefacts, such as biased or discriminatory outcomes, infringements on privacy, and lack of transparency, to structural socio-political issues related to the power of big tech companies (Ryan et al. 2024) and ontological issues related to the identification of human and artificial intelligence and its transferability (Blok 2025; Ryan 2025).

Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Journal: Ethics and Information Technology

Cultured meat, also referred to as cultivated meat, lab-grown or in-vitro meat, represents a new approach to food production. It involves the growth of animal cells within a controlled environment, thereby eliminating the necessity of farming animals in order to produce meat.

The Postdoctoral Research Associate will conduct research that will advance professional ethics in engineering and related areas. The selected candidate will conduct independent research in this area but will also be offered to collaborate with Dr. Peterson on projects regarding AI ethics. In addition to this, the Postdoctoral Research Associate may have the opportunity to teach a course in Texas A&M's acclaimed undergraduate engineering ethics program and contribute to the organization of programming associated with the Bovay Endowed Chair of History and Ethics of Professional Engineering, such as an annual Bovay workshop. This position will help promote the areas of research and teaching supported by the Bovay Endowment.

We invite contributions that discuss the problem of artificial consciousness from metaphysical, epistemological, or ethical perspectives. Potential topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:

Are you seeking a challenging role in a nurturing and collegial setting that supports rigorous philosophical teaching and research as well as opportunities for productive collaborations with social and life scientists? Are you an outstanding early career researcher whose focus is philosophy of the life sciences, biotechnologies, or related areas, grounded in fields such as epistemology, philosophy of science, social/political philosophy, ontology, or ethics? The Philosophy group at Wageningen University & Research offers an exciting opportunity to make significant impacts and build a successful academic career in a supportive and welcoming setting.

You will work in the Philosophy group
This position is in the Philosophy (PHI) group which is led by Prof. Rachel A. Ankeny. The PHI group is recognized for its cutting-edge research and innovative teaching in applied philosophy and philosophy of the life sciences in practice, drawing on multiple philosophical traditions and interdisciplinary methodologies, often in collaboration with natural scientists and incorporating empirical approaches.
The PHI group is embedded in Wageningen University, which is internationally renowned as a leading institution in the life sciences, particularly food, agriculture, and environmental sciences, and which prides itself on its excellence and impact. PHI is located within the Social Sciences Group (SSG) and has close relationships and collaborations with other groups in its section: Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation (KTI), Strategic Communications (COM), and Education and Learning Sciences (ELS).

The PHI group currently has the equivalent of 8 full-time academics (half conventional research/teaching mix, and half teaching focused) plus 2 part-time special professors, 4 postdoctoral researchers, 18 PhD candidates, and 2 support staff, who together support an active intellectual and productive working environment which is culturally and socially diverse. To further strengthen our research and education in this time of continued evolution and growth at WUR including in the PHI group, we are seeking applications for an Assistant Professor position.

As Assistant Professor in the PHI group, you will contribute to research, teaching including graduate training, PhD supervision, group administration, and engagement within and outside of the university (the typical split of responsibilities is 40% research, 40% teaching, and 20% administration, with details to be negotiated for the successful candidate). The language of instruction and the primary institutional language is English.

In this challenging career trajectory, your duties and responsibilities will include:

Call for Abstracts

University of Twente is proud to host from April 15-17, 2026 the first STS NL Conference, organized jointly with the Netherlands Research School for Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC):

The EVOLF consortium aims to create a living cell bottom up. This groundbreaking endeavour requires careful alignment with societal values and effective goverance. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to dramatically impact the lives of non-human animals (hereafter: animals), for good or bad. It has opened a whole new range of possibilities to exploit and control animals while at the same time opening the way for understanding animals and communicating with them in a hitherto unimaginable way. The impacts of AI on humans receive a lot of attention, while the impacts of AI on animals and the human–animal relationship remain underexplored. For example, ethical guidelines on AI rarely discuss animals (Owe and Baum 2021; Ryan 2022).

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue of Philosophical Studies entitled: SI Superintelligent Robots. This special issue aims to explore the profound philosophical questions and ethical challenges posed by the advent of superintelligent robots.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving and increasingly widespread technology that significantly shapes the social, cultural, and political processes of our time. It is now evident that this transformation raises pressing ethical questions. An ethical approach to AI can serve as a crucial guide for regulation, which is becoming ever more important in this domain.

How do we know what the right thing to do is under uncertainty? More specifically, in the quest to innovate for societal goals such as sustainability, or emancipation, how do we know we are not just providing another technofix?

Special Issue Editors

In contrast to previous revolutions in technology and work, the professions are more vulnerable to impact and change from artificial intelligence.

I am excited to announce that the call is open for 1 PhD position within the PhD Programme in Science, Technology and Policy for Sustainable Change of the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy).

The editorial board of Síntese, one of the most traditional philosophy journals in Brazil (since 1959) published by the Department of Philosophy at the Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia (FAJE), invites submissions for a special issue on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The Centre for Philosophy and AI Research PAIR (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), the Institute of Philosophy (Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Northeastern University - London are organising an online workshop on Agentic AI.  

Workshop dates: November 21st and 28th, 2025 

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the ARRTI Female Excellence Award 2025.

Deadline for abstracts: Aug 30th 
Abstracts (up to 500 words) should be submitted via email to Aisocietyncstate@gmail.com.

Birkbeck, University of London is seeking to hire two lecturers in philosophy. Each lectureship has the same job description:

Call for papers for the track Resilience, Social Structures and Transformation at the conference International Conference of Resilience Systems

First Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC) 
December 4-6, 2025, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium