AI for Good

Dear Colleagues,

While artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed our lives with advancements in big data and processing capabilities achieved using computers powered by graphic processing units, it has also become the engine that, with its capability to digitally alter or generate content in media, inflicts deep fakes on society, often in the form of images, videos, or audio that can be used to create convincing forgeries or fake news that are difficult to distinguish from real content. However, one of the most positive narratives surrounding AI as a disruptive and transformative technology is its potential to be harnessed for social good. AI can be leveraged in ways that create substantial social impact, addressing many of the world’s most pressing challenges, such as enhanced healthcare delivery and disaster response. This Special Issue explores the positive uses of AI and the social impact it has generated by offering innovative ways to revolutionise industries, economies, and society. This Special Issue originates from the AI for Good Symposium organised by the Sir Peter Rigby Digital Futures Institute on 8th October 2025 at Aston University, Birmingham, and these papers will together offer a glimpse of the richness of potential human–machine interaction while providing state-of-the-art ways forward. We hope that this Special Issue will be a stepping stone to advancing research in this domain, and that it will help to enable collective intelligence for real social benefit.

We invite to this Special Issue original research contributions and review papers in the broad field of AI for good including, but not limited to, applications that benefit society and the following topics:

• Adversarial AI to mitigate deepfakes;
• Agentic AI to use AI-driven autonomous agents for decision-making;
• Generative AI to generate models with improved logical reasoning;
• Responsible AI to ensure fairness, accountability, transparency, and bias mitigation;
• Conversational AI to analyse, recognise, and translate speech with assistive chatbots;
• Generative XR to use AI for generating an immersive and engaging metaverse.

Prof. Dr. Manolya Kavakli-Thorne
Guest Editor

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• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• mixed reality
• disruptive technologies
• wellbeing