Past the tipping point?
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EDITORIAL
Past the tipping point? John MacIntyre1 · Larry Medsker2 · Rachel Moriarty3
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
We are delighted to welcome readers to our new journal, AI and Ethics. Launching a new journal is a significant undertaking, and this one has been in gestation for at least 5 years. It is both rewarding and satisfying to see the first peer reviewed original work published alongside the thought leadership pieces contributed by our outstanding Editorial Board members. We are grateful to all authors for their excellent contributions, and to the reviewers who have provided thoughtful and useful feedback to our authors. Our journey to this point has been one of learning and enlightenment. Both John and Larry are practitioners of applied artificial intelligence, developing solutions to problems and focussing on the technical aspects of our various developments. Larry’s career started with research in physics and computer science, with increasing interest in applied and curricular work in AI and data science. His Artificial Neural Network research included a focus on hybrid intelligent systems. While the initial decades concerned technological aspects, during the past two decades his evolving interests and concerns focused on the nature of humans and machines and the impacts of AI on individuals and society. A professional development has been his role as ACM SIGAI Public Policy Office, which naturally includes involvement in AI ethics. The advent of the new journal AI and Ethics is an obvious and welcome next step. John came late into academia, having started his career in industry, spanning both engineering and computer science; this led seamlessly to his doctorate in applying neural networks to engineering problems. He established a research centre—the Centre for Adaptive Systems— in the mid-1990s, which became recognised by the UK Government as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in applied artificial * John MacIntyre [email protected] 1
University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
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The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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Springer Nature, London, UK
intelligence, developing applications in engineering, finance, medicine, security, and a range of other areas. He served on the committee of the UK’s Neural Computing Applications Forum, and has been Editor-in-Chief of Neural Computing & Applications, published by Springer, since 1996. This career-long focus on applied AI has given him the vantage point to see how our field has developed both technically, and in terms of the scope and scale of where AI is being applied—and the moral and ethical issues which are emerging as a result. As Senior Editor at Springer Nature, Rachel has been working on Computer Science journals for over a decade, mainly focusing on AI, Human Computer Interaction, Graphics and Virtual Reality. Over the years of managing portfolios ranging from 15 to 30 journals, as a Publishing Editor she forms the link between the external communities a journal serves, and the dedicated internal teams within
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