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The social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence in agriculture: mapping the agricultural AI literature

This paper will examine the social and ethical impacts of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the agricultural sector. It will identify what are some of the most prevalent challenges and impacts identified in the literature, how this correlates with those discussed in the domain of AI ethics, and are being implemented into AI ethics guidelines. This will be achieved by examining published articles and conference proceedings that focus on societal or ethical impacts of AI in the agri-food sector, through a thematic analysis of the literature. The thematic analysis will be divided based on the classifications outlined through 11 overarching principles, from an established lexicon (transparency, justice and fairness, non-maleficence, responsibility, privacy, beneficence, freedom and autonomy, trust, dignity, sustainability, and solidarity). While research on AI agriculture is still relatively new, this paper aims to map the debate and illustrate what the literature says in the context of social and ethical impacts. It aim is to analyse these impacts, based on these 11 principles. This research will contrast which impacts are not being discussed in agricultural AI and which issues are not being discussed in AI ethics guidelines, but which are discussed in relation to agricultural AI. The aim of this is to identify gaps within the agricultural literature, and gaps in AI ethics guidelines, that may need to be addressed.

CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND PROSPECTS OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN THE GLOBAL SCENARIO OF UNCERTAINTY: UNILIBNSD EDITOR'S VIEW

The global scenario of uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how quickly university libraries can respond to changes in the educational and research ecosystems of their institutions. The new (6th) issue of the journal “University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development. Conference Proceedings” is exactly about this. The papers discuss new behaviours / work of library staff based on digital communication technologies, our projects, our goals, our hopes, as well as our doubts and concerns for the maximum contribution of libraries to the development of university communities in a constantly changing world. Full-length articles about the most interesting world library and information practices and ideas were selected, reviewed and recommended by members of the international editorial board of the similarly-named conference (UniLibNSD-2021), which was held in a hybrid format on October 7-8, 2021 in Dnipro, Ukraine. The title “University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications Development. Conference Proceedings” has been accepted in Scopus (2021).

Transmathematica 2021

Transmathematica 2021: The 3rd International Conference on Total Systems was held online, using Zoom, on 5th July 2021 from 12.45 - 18.00 London Time. Edited video recordings were uploaded to a new Transmathematica channel on YouTube. We now present the conference proceedings and announce Transmathematica 2022: The 4th International Conference on Total Systems.

J.UCS special issue on Challenges for Smart Environments – Human-Centered Computing, Data Science, and Ambient Intelligence. Smart Human-Centered Computing (volume 2)

Based on a successful funded collaboration between the American University of Armenia, the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Chile, in previous years a network was built, and in September 2020 a group of researchers gathered (although virtually) for the 2nd CODASSCA workshop on “Collaborative Technologies and Data Science in Smart City Applications”. This event has attracted 25 paper submissions which deal with the problems and challenges mentioned above. The studies are in specialized areas and disclose novel solutions and approaches based on existing theories suitably applied. The authors of the best papers published in the conference proceedings on Collaborative Technologies and Data Science in Artificial Intelligence Applications by Logos edition Berlin were invited to submit significantly extended and improved versions of their contributions to be considered for a journal special issue of J.UCS. There was also a J.UCS open call so that any author could submit papers on the highlighted subject. For this volume, we selected those devoted mainly to human-computer interaction problematics, which were rigorously reviewed in three rounds and 6 papers nominated to be published.

Thank You to Our Readers and Contributors

This issue marks the final issue in the first volume of the Canadian Journal of Health Technologies. CADTH would like to thank all of our contributors, readers, and subscribers for engaging with our work over the past 12 months. Accepted abstracts from the annual CADTH Symposium have been published for the first time in a special supplement to the journal, making the conference proceedings more available to the scientific community and other stakeholders. CADTH encourages readers to submit comments and ideas for future issues of the Canadian Journal of Health Technologies to help us advance our role as an effective communication channel for health technology assessment, implementation science, and knowledge mobilization in Canada.

Department of Psychiatry Research Day: Conference Proceedings

UOJM is pleased to have collaborated with the Department of Psychiatry Research Day committee to put together this special issue. The University of Ottawa Department of Psychiatry virtually hosted its annual Research Day on November 17, 2021. This year’s theme was Climate Change and Mental Health. The online event welcomed 168 registered individuals. The abstracts found in these conference proceedings highlight the quality and diversity of ongoing research within the Department of Psychiatry. We’d like to thank all members of the planning committees, the UOJM team, and all students involved for their hard work in contributing to and finalizing this special issue.