AI & Future Society
AI ethics, governance and the societal transformations driven by intelligent technologies. ISSN 3053-4011.
Journal Overview
AI & Future Society (AFS) advances scholarship on AI ethics, governance, regulation, human-AI interaction, and the societal transformations driven by intelligent technologies. Within Ridgeline's portfolio, it is the journal specifically dedicated to the normative, regulatory and institutional side of artificial intelligence — the questions that arise once an AI system leaves the lab and starts affecting decisions, labor, rights or public institutions.
The journal sits deliberately at the intersection of technical understanding and social-scientific method. A manuscript need not be primarily computational to belong here, but it should demonstrate a working understanding of how the AI systems it discusses actually function, rather than treating them as an undifferentiated black box.
Research Focus
The journal's published scope centers on AI ethics, AI governance and regulation, human-AI interaction, and the broader societal transformations that follow from deploying intelligent systems at scale. This spans work grounded in policy analysis, empirical social science, and technically informed ethics, provided the argument engages seriously with how the relevant AI systems are built and operate.
Who Should Publish Here
AFS is suited to researchers in AI ethics, technology policy, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and computer science working on the governance or societal-impact dimension of their work. It is not the venue for a purely technical machine-learning contribution with no governance, ethics or societal-impact framing — that kind of manuscript is generally a closer fit for the Journal of Engineering Systems & Applications or, where its scope is broader still, Panorama Frontier Review.
Editorial Approach
Editorial independence carries particular weight for AFS, whose subject matter includes the governance and regulation of technology companies and public institutions. Acceptance decisions rest with the journal's own editorial board, not with Panorama Scholarly Group or the Ridgeline imprint, and the journal follows the group's shared peer-review framework with continuous, rolling submission rather than fixed issue deadlines.
Open Access
AFS publishes open access under Creative Commons (CC BY) licensing. Articles are free to read, download and reuse from the day of publication, with no subscription or reader access fee.
DOI & Scholarly Record
Accepted articles receive a Crossref DOI, registered under Panorama Scholarly Group's prefix 10.63802, giving each a permanent, resolvable citation record. Corrections and, where warranted, retractions are handled under the group's shared publication-ethics framework — see Standards.