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Critical AI is as an interdisciplinary initiative at Rutgers University, organized and led by a steering committee, based at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, and affiliated with the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and the Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory. Our interdisciplinary journal is published with Duke University Press.

The latest issue of Critical AI is out and accessible online! Read Critical AI 3.2 online during the limited free access period, and encourage your library to subscribe.

If you are interested in submitting content for peer review in Critical AI, please carefully review our submission requirements and explore recent issues of the journal.

We are working to update our living document on TEACHING CRITICAL AI LITERACIES for the Spring 2026 semester. Click here to view and download CRITICAL AI LITERACIES: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS.

The Critical AI blog site posts research, reviews, and commentary by interdisciplinary scholars in a wide range of AI-adjacent fields, as well as posts by faculty and students affiliated with the Critical AI @ Rutgers initiative, and “sneak previews” from forthcoming content in Critical AI. It also archives recordings of our online and hybrid events, including our October 2025 workshops on “Troubleshooting” AI, our May 2025 Design Justice AI Global Humanities Post-Institute, our July 2024 Design Justice AI Global Humanities Institute at the University of Pretoria, our September 2024 librarian-facing symposium on Research in the Era of Generative AI, our October 2023 public symposium Critical AI Literacy in a Time of Chatbots, and our 2021 NEH-sponsored workshops with the Australian National University.

A web platform indebted to the Design Justice Network’s inspiring principles, Design Justice Labs publishes peer-reviewed open-access resources that help teachers to navigate generative AI in the classroom and students to encounter new technologies from the stance of researchers rather than users.

For questions and to share ideas, please email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu.