This special issue explores the multifaceted dimensions of human-AI collaboration, examining both the opportunities it presents and the challenges it raises across various domains and disciplines. The collection seeks interdisciplinary perspectives on how humans and artificial intelligence systems can work together effectively and responsibly.

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Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue invites research on scenario planning and foresight methods, exploring contemporary challenges and innovative approaches in the field. The issue welcomes contributions that examine emerging practices and novel applications of these forward-looking techniques across various domains.

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Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue for Technology in Society seeks submissions on sustainable and human-centric management approaches in the context of contemporary global crises. The call invites research that addresses how organizations and management practices can balance technological advancement with human values and environmental sustainability.

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Timeline

• December 15, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue examines the often-overlooked negative externalities and challenges accompanying technological progress, particularly in the shift toward Industry 5.0. Rather than celebrating innovation uncritically, the call invites research that interrogates the hidden risks, governance gaps, and sustainability concerns that emerge during major industrial transitions.

The special issue seeks contributions that address how societies can navigate technological change while minimizing harm, establishing effective governance mechanisms, and ensuring sustainable outcomes. It welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex relationship between technological advancement, environmental protection, social welfare, and economic viability.

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Potential topics

• Risks associated with technological advancement and digital transformation
• Governance frameworks for emerging technologies
• Sustainability implications of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0
• Environmental and social costs of technological progress
• Policy and regulatory approaches to managing technological transitions
• Ethical considerations in technology deployment
• Human and organizational impacts of industrial transformation

Timeline

• January 18, 2027: Submission deadline

Glen Whelan, ESG UQÀM

Gabriel Weber, ESSCA School of Management

Yann Truong, ESSCA School of Management

Ongoing developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) indicate that machine learning technologies will not simply match, but will potentially significantly surpass, a wide range of human cognitive abilities. Given this trend, there is reason to believe that AI could threaten humanity's hegemonic, agentic, positioning and that it could be a driver of civilizational, epochal change.

Business actors occupy a unique dual-position within this context. First, as leading architects of AI development, high-tech corporations are rebuilding the organizational structures, labour markets, and human-machinic assemblages that will define social existence for decades to come by impacting upon such fundamental concerns as democracy, peace, and human flourishing. Second, the institution of business and markets as a whole will also find itself the subject of transformative forces that it cannot control despite the fact that certain actors therewithin – such as high-tech corporations – have given rise to them.

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Potential topics

• Speed versus safety in the rush to develop (super-intelligent) AI
• Competition and conflict over AI resources
• Defense, offense, and critical AI infrastructure
• (Rogue) AI and principal-agent misalignment
• AI and 'responsibility gaps'
• Existential threats and AI
• AI and the implicit/explicit embodiment of political goals and values
• Corporate elites (e.g., owners/founders) and the control of AI
• Corporate governance within the AI political context
• Ideological conflict in the era of AI
• The algocratic and epistocratic underpinnings of AI developments
• AI and planetary boundaries
• Environmental justice and AI
• The global south and the AI workforce
• Resource creation, extraction and commodification in the era of AI
• AI and exosomatic energy use
• AI and the changing value of human labour and human leisure
• The possibility of human excellence and flourishing in AI impacted societies
• AI and the transformation of markets for consumption and production
• The implications of AI for how we conceive and value human rights, democracy and justice
• AI and peace

Timeline

• April 1, 2026: Paper Development Workshop submission window
• May 20, 2026: Online pre-submission workshop (optional)
• September 1, 2026: Submission window opens
• September 30, 2026: Submission window closes
• January 1, 2027: Online post-submission workshop (tentative, participation optional)

Associate editors

• Simon Pek, University of Victoria