CFP - The New Geometry of Language: AI Models in Critical Perspective

[Mathematics Education Researchers (MER) community]

FWD message: 

The ERC project AIMODELS (Ca'Foscari University of Venice) is pleased to announce the launch of a call for papers for the upcoming themed issue of the Cambridge Forum on AI, titled "The New Geometry of Language: AI Models in Critical Perspective". This themed issue aims to critically explore the philosophical, economical, political and psychological implications of recent Large Language Models. The issue will be guest edited by Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Amira Moeding (Cambridge University) and Tommaso Guariento (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).

Submission deadlines

 

• Abstract submission: December 1, 2025
• Final paper submission: March 30, 2026

 

How to submit

 

Interested researchers are invited to submit an abstract of 500 words outlining their proposed study, methodology, and original contribution to the themed issue.
We invite interdisciplinary reflections on LLMs, including hybrid contributions located between humanities, computer science, and critical engineering, on the following topics:

1. The formalisation and mathematisation of language
2. The history of LLMs and its relationship to AI
3. The political economy of LLMs between labour and market
4. The ecological cost of language automation
5. The issue of anthropomorphization of chatbots
6. Decolonial and anti-colonial approaches to language generation
7. The problem of meaning and grounding in LLMs
8. Computational linguistics and neo-structuralism
9. Philosophy of language after language automation
10. Translation studies in the age of machine translation
11. Low resources language in the world of LLMs
12. The issue of model collapse in LLMs

 

For full details on the scope and thematic interests of the issue, please consult the official call for papers.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

With best regards,

Giovanni Fava