Congratulations to Kelly Joyce and Taylor M. Cruz, and all contributing authors, for putting a special collection on “A Sociology of Artificial intelligence: Inequalities, Power, and Data Justice” in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

To access the special collection, click here: A Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: Inequalities, Power, and Data Justice

The special collection includes the following articles:

• Kelly Joyce and Taylor M. Cruz. “Introduction: A Sociology of Artificial Intelligence”
• Health and Medicine
  • Mira D. Vale. “Moral Entrepreneurship and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Psychiatry”
  • Shira Zilbersten. “Ethical Dilemmas and Collaborative Resolutions in Machine Learning Research for Health Care”
  • Vera Gallistl, Roger von Laufenberg, and Katrin Lehner. “Vulnerability Assemblages: Situating Vulnerability in the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence”
• Work and Labor
  • Zhuofan Li. “When Being a Data Annotator Was Not Yet a Job: The Laboratory Origins of Dispersible Labor in Computer Vision Research”
  • Eric Dahlin. “Who Says Artificial Intelligence is Stealing Our Jobs?”
• Research Methods
  • Thomas Davidson. “Start Generating: Harnessing Generative Artificial Intelligence for Sociological Research”
  • Crystal Peoples, Paige Knudsen, and Melany Fuentes. “The Use of Facial Recognition in Sociological Research: A Comparison of ClarifAI and Kairos Classifications to Hand-Coded Images”
• Tech and Identity
  • Kenneth Hanson and Hannah Bolthouse. “‘Replika Removing Erotic Role-Play Is Like Grand Theft Auto Removing Guns or Cars’: Reddit Discourse on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Sexual Technologies”
• Policy Implications
  • Tina Law and Leslie McCall. “Artificial Intelligence Policymaking: An Agenda for Sociological Research”