After working on it for almost two years, we are very happy to launch the new open access journal, Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society, published by Cambridge University Press.

The journal brings together the humanities, arts, social sciences, and computing to treat AI as a situated social and cultural practice. Our inaugural issue, "Cultures of AI Interdisciplinarity”,  argues that interdisciplinary AI work requires more than simply adding a social or cultural researcher to a technical team. The contributions cover critical technical practice, civic engagement, friction in AI research, and hybrid human–AI approaches to studying social and cultural questions.

Four contributors to the inaugural issue will discuss the future of interdisciplinary AI, introduced and chaired by the journal's co-editors.

Date: Tuesday, 6 October 2026. Time: 5:00 PM GMT+1.

Speakers: 

- Alan Blackwell (University of Cambridge)

- Nishant Shah (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

- Dieuwertje Luitse (University of Amsterdam)

- Georgina Born (UCL, Journal Co-Editor).

Introduction:

- Beth Coleman (University of Toronto)

- Tobias Blanke (University of Amsterdam).

Free Event Registration: https://cup.org/4xrkHbG.

Journal & Inaugural Issue: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-culture-and-society.

All best,

Tobias Blanke, Georgina Born, Beth Coleman, Sally Hoffmann.