[Commlist] Call for chapter proposals. Edited volume “Ethical and legal dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America”

*Call for chapter proposals. Edited volume “Ethical and legal dilemmas 
of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America” for Palgrave Macmillan's 
Global Ethics Series.*

David Ramírez Plascencia (Universidad de Guadalajara, México) and Rosa 
María Alonzo González (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México) 
invite abstracts for the edited collection “Ethical and Legal Dilemmas 
of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America”, which will be submitted to 
Palgrave Macmillan. The editorial has already expressed great interest 
in the project.

In 2024, due to the global popularization of applications such as 
ChatGPT, there has been a renewed interest about Artificial Intelligence 
on considering its potentials, not only for commercial and entertainment 
activities, but in the financial, scientific, and belligerent sectors. 
ChatGPT’s capacities have reinvigorated the excitement for developing AI 
systems and apps that are able to emulate the human capacity of 
acquiring and applying knowledge. However, along with the enthusiasm, 
there are worries and deliberations: the use of AI to cheat at school, 
ethical dilemmas regarding the employment of automatized weapons at 
battlefields, privacy and security threats related with the companies 
that develop digital media apps, and the potential risks leaving the 
financing and defense systems under control AI systems.

The main goal of this volume is to analyze, from a critical and 
comparative approach, the potential benefits of using artificial 
intelligence to surpass traditional social and economic problems in 
Latin America, but to understand, at the same time, the perils and 
potential barriers derived from the adoption of this technology. Such as 
the lack of proper legal frameworks and the latent ethical conflicts of 
using these applications, particularly considering the protection of 
users from the mistreatment of private data or the use of deep fake to 
promote misinformation. In addition, the challenges of introducing this 
app in a region such as Latin America with deep economic and 
technological disparities, not just at local, but at regional level and 
global level among the North and the South. Would the adoption of AI 
reduce this gap, or on the contrary, will the eruption of this novel 
technology bring more disparity?

We look for contributions on relevant cases that analyze the ethical and 
legal dilemmas of incorporating Artificial Intelligence in diverse 
socio-economic fields in Latin America. Topics associated with inclusion 
of AI in the production of news (fake news, deepfake, labor 
precarization), algorithms and genre disparity, the inclusion of AI in 
education, the prospective impact of AI developments in climate change, 
the incorporation of AI to combat criminality or in internal and 
regional conflicts, the development of AI to solve social problems such 
as pollution and traffic in large metropoles like Mexico City or Sao 
Paulo, and to promote public transparency and accountability. But at the 
same time, analyzing the challenges of using this disruptive technology: 
the potential threats to the regional economy, the invasion of privacy 
and the misuse of citizen’s data, among other key issues.

You are warmly invited to send us your proposal (maximum three authors 
per chapter), please include a brief bio for every author (no more than 
250 words with titles, affiliations, and contacts) and an abstract (500 
words without references). Please send the proposal to the following 
addresses: (davidram /at/ udgvirtual.udg.mx) 
(mailto:(davidram /at/ udgvirtual.udg.mx)) and (rosa.alonzo /at/ uabc.edu.mx) 
(mailto:(rosa.alonzo /at/ uabc.edu.mx))

Deadline March 31, 2024.

Please feel free to contact us with any of your questions.

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