In the Special Issues: GenAI, Ingenuity, the Law, and Unintended Consequences

The June issue incorporates a double special issue bringing together the areas of Generative AI, ingenuity and the law; and separately the unintended consequences of emerging technologies aligned to artificial intelligence and subset areas, such as biometrics. The first special issue is led by Joseph Carvalko Jr., Chairperson, Technology and Ethics, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Institution for Public and Social Policy Studies [1]; and the second special issue is led by Clinton Andrews of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and previously the President of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology [2]. In this guest editorial we provide a brief Introduction to the special issues and an overview of each of the accepted papers. We also invite Lucy Batley of Traction Industries located in Newcastle on the Tyne in England to join us, as the inspiration behind the cover design of this issue [3].