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This special issue analyzes Artificial Intelligence in a new context: AI as a scientific undertaking in the realm of the sciences of design. This philosophical analysis also takes into account the relations of AI to the Internet as communicative platform and as a hub for information exchange. On the one hand, there is an increasing ‘‘scientification’’ of designs of AI, which includes the combination of new aims, novelty in processes, and innovation in the results; on the other, some developments of AI also have impact on the Internet in several ways (such as those related to machine learning for better translations, the use of algorithms for data economy, the contribution of AI to develop commercial software that can assist medical decisions, or AI as the basis for new designs concerning audiovisual communication on the Internet). Following a philosophico-methodological approach within the sciences of the artificial, the analysis of the scientific development of AI and the enhancement of the Internet in scientific terms require taking into account ‘‘internal’’ and ‘‘external’’ factors. The reason is clear: aims, processes, and results of scientific designs of AI and their consequences for the Internet (especially for the communication sciences)