Submission Guidelines

Critical AI is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes submissions from any discipline so long as they are legible to readers across fields and bodies of research. Specialist terms should be kept to a minimum and, when necessary, defined. Authors should note that the journal is published in a humanities format with a minimum of sectioning (for an example, see "The Photographic Pipeline of Machine Vision; or, Machine Vision's Latent Photographic Theory," by Nicolas Malevé and Katrina Sluis). We suggest that all contributors familiarize themselves with the content of the journal so that they can situate their own essays as part of ongoing conversations in the field of critical AI studies.

To the greatest extent possible, submitted manuscripts should avoid replicating already existing content (such as lengthy descriptions of how a particular technology works) and instead provide a legible sketch in conjunction with a pointer to readers toward suitable publications (in Critical AI or other peer-reviewed venues) for additional details. In practice, “artificial intelligence” refers to a wide range of technologies, past and present, and has been leveraged in the current climate of widespread hype as a marketing term. Contributors should therefore try to discuss the relevant AI technology in reference to specific applications and their contexts. (The term “AI” can be used with quotation marks to denote its meaning in popular parlance.)

Critical AI publishes two issues per year.  We welcome shorter manuscripts (such as thinkpieces of between 2,500 and 3,000 words) but will also consider manuscripts of up to 8,000 words. Note that word count includes footnotes but not works cited.

All manuscripts must adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. (CMS), including in-text parenthetical author-date citations and a works cited page. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal’s style guide as anonymized Word documents. All submissions should include an abstract of 150–200 words and 3–5 keywords at the top of the document. All manuscripts should be submitted alongside an author biography (approx. fifty words long) in a separate file.

Manuscripts can be submitted via ScholarOne at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-cai.

All inquiries about manuscripts should be addressed to our Managing Editor at [email protected].