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.