Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence in Government [CFP]

According to the European Commission (2018), artificial intelligence (AI) refers to systems that display intelligent behavior by analyzing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. In past decades, AI was a topic almost exclusively studied within academia. But the confluence and popularization of different factors, such as the rise of algorithms analysis, more powerful and distributed processing technologies, the Big Data phenomenon, and new disciplines such as data science, have been the "perfect storm" to bring AI to the real world. In this real world, AI-based systems and technologies that autonomously enable process optimization based on elements such as machine learning and deep learning have also started to be implemented and used by public organizations and governments. AI has started to be included in the political agenda, with public debate on the benefits and challenges related to the adoption of AI technologies.