"AI and Society: Ethics, Creativity and Power in the Digital Age"International Conference30-31 January 2027 – London / Online

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a speculative horizon — it is an active force reshaping how we work, create, govern, communicate and understand what it means to be human. From generative AI and automated decision-making to algorithmic governance and digital surveillance, AI technologies are transforming social structures, cultural production and everyday life at an unprecedented pace.

This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars, researchers and practitioners to critically engage with the relationships between AI, ethics, creativity and power. We are particularly interested in contributions that interrogate not only the promises of AI, but also its risks, inequalities and unintended consequences.

What does it mean to live in a world increasingly mediated by intelligent systems? How are concepts such as authorship, agency, responsibility and knowledge being redefined? Who benefits from AI and who is excluded? And how might critical, creative and ethical approaches help shape more just and inclusive technological futures?

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Ethical frameworks, responsibility and accountability in AI
• AI, power and global inequalities
• AI and the transformation of labour, value and everyday life
• Cultural narratives, imaginaries and representations of AI
• Creativity, authorship and artistic practice in the age of AI
• AI and the future of knowledge, education and academic work
• Truth, misinformation and epistemic authority in digital societies
• Identity, embodiment and subjectivity in human–AI interaction
• AI, disability and inclusive or exclusionary technologies
• AI in healthcare and medicine: ethics, care, and the transformation of clinical practice
• Gender, race and intersectionality in AI systems and discourse
• Memory, archives and digital heritage in algorithmic cultures
• AI, architecture and design: shaping spaces, environments and human experience
• AI in language learning and assessment
• Resistance, critique, and alternative technological futures