Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Since the publication of a 2023 issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics on the topic of ‘Art, Aesthetics, and Artificial Intelligence,’ questions about the implications of generative AI for the creation and appreciation of art have become increasingly pressing. In that issue of the PJA, and in other scholarly journals, philosophers and theorists have been wrestling with puzzling questions about what the prevalence of generative AI might mean for how we think about the definition of art, the ontology of art, the nature of creativity, and the role of intentionality in artmaking.
At the same time, we have begun to see the emergence of a new cluster of questions about the ethical dimensions of the use of generative AI in our creative and appreciative practices. Regarding the creative side of things, scholars and critics have asked whether generative AI might imperil traditional forms of artistic labor, appropriate existing artworks and/or styles of individual artists, threaten to reproduce biases and reinforce existing structures of social inequality, or result in a kind of aesthetic de-skilling. Regarding appreciative matters, we might wonder about the ethical implications of offloading to recommendation algorithms our decisions about what sorts of movies or music to experience, or about what sorts of virtues of characters might be threatened if the object of our appreciation has been created not by another human but by generative AI.
This issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics aims to bring together these two strands of inquiry. We invite scholars to submit papers that examine any of the various ethical dimensions of AI art, including but not limited to:
- The implications of AI art for appreciative virtues such as curiosity, patience, perseverance, and sensitivity.
- AI, artistic appropriation, and/or copyright.
- AI art and content moderation / censorship.
- AI art, ‘fake’ images, and deception.
- AI art and rights (free expression, rights of personality/publicity, intellectual property).
- The creation of AI art and moral agency (including moral responsibility and blameworthiness).
- AI and artistic labor.
- Aesthetic deskilling.
- Algorithmic bias, AI art, and social inequality.
- The ethical affordances or possibilities of AI art.
Submission deadline: 31 August, 2026.
Author Guidelines: We ask Authors to read our guidelines posted under the tab For Authors, as well as to double-check the completeness of each submission (please do not forget to collectively submit: the abstract, keywords, bibliography, and a biographical note about the author) before submitting.
Only complete submissions sent through the submissions page will be accepted—submission page: https://submissions.pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/index.php/PJA
All submitted articles are subject to double-blind reviews. Articles published in The Polish Journal of Aesthetics are assigned DOI numbers.
https://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/news/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_oOnQUgaMNW2v/138618288/157518582