Dear All, We would like to draw your attention to the extended submission deadline to 16 July 2026 for the AI4Humanities&SocialSciences track at the AI 4 Science conference (5–9 October 2026, Mainz). We warmly invite colleagues from the Digital Humanities, Social Sciences, and related AI application fields to consider submitting. Call for contributions: Dear colleagues from DH and from AI applications research for journalism, education, law, media, market research, market communication, intelligent interfaces, etc., in the context of AI 4 Science conference, 5-9 October 2026 in Mainz, there will be a AI4Humanities&SocialSciences track, chaired by Julianne Nyhan (Technical University Darmstadt) and Christoph Bläsi (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). For this track, we invite contributions, also from application fields, on topics like: – (innovative) theoretical and analytical applications of AI in HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) and critiques thereof, for example concerning AI and hermeneutics and tools for empirical and analytical research (e.g. for content analysis) – ethical dimensions of the use of AI in HSS, for example, where AI may lead to the reinscription or activation of long standing or new dynamics of bias or an inappropriate use of resources or applications like deathbots – source analysis and source criticism of AI in HSS, for example, multimodal – AI and vector-based search – AI applications close to the methodological frontier in application areas linked to HSS, e.g. journalism, education, law, media, market research, market communication, intelligent interfaces, etc. – (innovative) presentation and dissemination of HSS research with the help of AI, for example storytelling – (innovative) approaches to the inclusion of stakeholders outside academia in Digital Humanities and Digital Social Sciences research, for example citizen science Regularly updates on the conference and particularly the AI4HSS track you will find here: https://ai4sci.eu/ai4humanitiessocialsciences/. Best wishes, HDSM, TU Darmstadt