Cognitive and Information Science: For a Sustainability of Human-Environment Interactions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 330
Special Issue Editors
Interests: new scientific study of religion; theological and scientific anthropologies; sustainable systems
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Interests: synthesis of computational and philosophical approaches to AI via application of automated universal reasoners; machine ethics and epistemology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in cognitive and information sciences, and especially in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications, have raised many ethical and other concerns. Sustainability, understood in a broad sense, is one of these concerns. This encompasses a variety of topics, from the reduction of the carbon footprint of AI systems, to the challenges of human–machine interaction, to the impact of AI on the balances and equities in present and future social systems. The investigation on this topic invites deeper analysis and reflection from a multidisciplinary approach. Relationships and equilibria between humans, social systems and natural environment could suffer from the irruption of new technologies, jeopardizing the efforts to build more sustainable and resilient societies. Nevertheless, such advances could be applied to implement sustainability goals, e.g., by assisting to better address current issues in environmental responsibility and to detect and correct the negative social impact of misleading information.
This Special Issue aims at better understanding the connections between technological development and the underlying processes that influence current equilibria and the future development of social systems and human interactions. Such balances have a clear incidence in the attainment of more sustainable and resilient societies.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- How advances in cognitive and information sciences redefine the structure and balances in and between social systems.
- How intelligent systems impact the human condition and its relationships with social and natural environments.
- How AI technology can support human development, well-being, and environmental responsibility.
- The environmental impact of AI technology, and short- and long-term solutions to reduce the AI carbon footprint.
- What possibilities humans have to use technology in such a way to meet the needs of the present without impacting the needs and values of future generations.
- How cognitive and information science can be applied to foster a sustainable use of technology, especially in detecting and addressing biased or unfair decision-making processes and false information gathering and dissemination.
- Cognitive and information science as a source of sustainable models and as the key to a more sustainable understanding of human condition.
- Issues concerning future scenarios: enhancing views on the future of humanity in the light of recent cognitive and information sciences.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Lluis Oviedo
Prof. Dr. Andrea Vestrucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- information
- cognition
- AI
- social systems
- human factor
- sustainability
