Focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and reproductive and genetic technologies (Repro-tech), Jude Browne asks who is politically responsible for the impacts of these transformative technologies and examines how we can respond to the societal challenges they pose in a way that is both politically feasible and socially responsible.
Not a day goes by without a new story on the perils of technology: from increasingly clever machines that surpass human capability and comprehension to genetic technologies capable of altering the human genome in ways we cannot predict. How can we respond? What should we do politically? Focusing on the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), and the impact of new reproductive and genetic technologies (Repro-tech), Jude Browne questions who has political responsibility for the structural impacts of these technologies and how we might go about preparing for the far-reaching societal changes they may bring. This thought-provoking book tackles some of the most pressing issues of our time and offers a compelling vision for how we can respond to these challenges in a way that is both politically feasible and socially responsible.
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'Who must bear the costs of complying with a rule when no one in particular is responsible for its breach? New technologies present this classic problem to regulators on an unprecedented scale. Jude Browne uses a powerful concept of structural injustice to argue that independence from politics offers regulators a path toward accurately understanding public interests, rather than capture by the tech industries. This book is required reading for anyone seriously interested in the modern regulatory state.' Anthony M. Bertelli, Author of Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Government 'Jude Browne's imaginative and audacious book addresses two drastically transformative frontiers in our collective futures and shows how to reconstruct and revitalize a state institution to face them less unjustly and more effectively together.' John Dunn, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Cambridge
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Discusses how we should think politically about the ways in which AI and Repro-tech structurally change society.
Introduction;
1. The problem of structural injustice: where nobody is liable, who is responsible?;
2. Artificial intelligence and ground truth;
3. Repro-tech and the genetic supermarket;
4. Putting the public into the public body;
5. Conclusion: technology is the answer, what was the question?; References.
Jude Browne is Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, a Professorial Fellow in Social and Political Sciences at King's College and the Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. Jude's research interests are in political theories of equality, feminist theory, political responsibility, public interest, public policy, structural injustice and the impact of technology on society.
