AI4Humanities&SocialSciences
We invite submissions to the 2nd International Conference on AI for Science (AI4Sci 2026), welcoming abstracts on applications of artificial intelligence in and for science. AI4Sci 2026 is part of the AI4Science Week and co-located with the 29th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2026). AI4Sci features separate AI4Physics, AI4Chemistry&Materials, AI4LifeSciences, and AI4Humanities&SocialSciences tracks dealing with applications of AI and Machine Learning in a variety of different fields. Contrary to DS 2026, the AI4Sci tracks are non-archival and also suited to ongoing or already published work.
The AI4Humanities&SocialSciences Track of AI4Sci 2026 invites contributions on topics such as, but not restricted to:
- (innovative) theoretical and analytical applications of AI in HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) and critiques thereof, for example concerning AI and hermeneutics and tools for empirical and analytical research (e.g. for content analysis)
- ethical dimensions of the use of AI in HSS, for example, where AI may lead to the reinscription or activation of long standing or new dynamics of bias or an inappropriate use of resources or applications like deathbots
- source analysis and source criticism of AI in HSS, for example, multimodal AI and vector-based search
- AI applications close to the methodological frontier in application areas linked to HSS, e.g. journalism, media, market research, market communication, intelligent interfaces, etc
- (innovative) presentation and dissemination of HSS research with the help of AI, for example storytelling
- (innovative) approaches to the inclusion of stakeholders outside academia in Digital Humanities and Digital Social Sciences research, for example citizen science
The talks of the track will be 15 minutes long, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.
Submission Procedure
Submitted abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. The reviewing process will be single-blind. Thus, the submitted abstracts should not be anonymized.
The abstract should be entered in the field "Abstract" of the CMT system directly. Please use the PDF upload for potential supplementary material, for instance, of an already published paper based on which you want to give a talk at the track.
If accepted, we will ask you to submit a two-page PDF of the abstract in Springer LNCS style. A book of abstract will be provided at the conference. Publication of the book of abstracts at, e.g., https://pos.sissa.it/ or https://ceur-ws.org/ is under discussion with the track chairs.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Please submit your contributions at
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIforSci2026/
When submitting, please choose the track "AI4Humanities&SocialSciences".
The timeline for AI4Sci 2026 is as follows:
- CMT submission system opens: May 8th, 2026
- Abstract submission deadline: June 12th, 2026
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 21st, 2026
All deadlines are 23:59 AOE.
Track chairs
Christoph Bläsi
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
blaesi@uni-mainz.de
Julianne Nyhan
TU Darmstadt
julianne.nyhan@tu-darmstadt.de