AI & Future Society (ISSN: 3053-4011) is pleased to publish Volume 2, Issue 1 (May 2026), entitled AI, Ethics, and Future Society: Governance, Education, and Human–AI Relations.

This issue explores the ethical, institutional, educational, and social transformations brought about by artificial intelligence. The articles collected here examine AI not only as a technological system, but also as a force that reorganizes evidence, decision-making, pedagogy, democratic accountability, cultural communication, and human interaction.

The issue includes contributions on AI and digital forensics, public decision-making and democratic exclusion, AI education in middle schools, intercultural EFL pedagogy, AI literacy in research and higher education, and the emotional boundaries of human–robot social acceptance. Across these diverse areas, the issue asks how credibility, responsibility, human judgment, and social trust can be preserved in an increasingly AI-mediated world.

By bringing together perspectives from ethics, governance, education, communication, and critical AI studies, this issue seeks to advance a more responsible and human-centered understanding of artificial intelligence and its role in future society.

AI & Future Society Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025) marks the journal’s inaugural issue, themed “Inaugural Visions”, bringing together cutting-edge research across AI ethics, governance, cultural transformation, and critical theory.

From probing the copyright boundaries of AI-generated content to proposing a global governance framework for AI organizations; from exploring how algorithms reshape museums to offering a Lacanian interpretation of AI hallucination—these articles collectively map a rich and multidisciplinary terrain of AI’s impact on society.

More than a beginning, this issue is a statement of intent: to cultivate a scholarly platform that responds to the challenges of the algorithmic age with clarity, responsibility, and critical imagination.