Theoretical Models, Challenges, and Prospects for the Sociological Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interactions in the Age of Online Culture

Widespread penetration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everyday life of society, the exponential growth of research and publications about AI in computer sciences, natural sciences, and engineering contrasted with the sluggish and precautious efforts to examine AI in sociology is not a problem, today. It is a fact. What to do about it is a problem.

This Session aims to reposition the studies of AI and relations between algorithms and humans within current theoretical sociology and outline the changing social context in which sociological inquiries of AI and online culture take place.

The Session attempts to stimulate debates on the current state of affairs and the future of the sociological examination of developments and limits of AI in the everyday life of a society. It will try to examine scientific challenges, test theories, and discuss empirical data that have a practical dimension. We believe this timely Session promises to provide a venue where sociologists will debate the hottest theoretical, methodological, and practical issues.