Governing the Future

An interdisciplinary collection, this volume draws on considerable expertise from scholars and practitioners to address the challenges, impacts and the regulation of this civilizational transformation from the perspectives of various disciplines including philosophy, international law, sociology, cultural studies, economics, and technology.

We are living in times of deep and disruptive change. Perhaps the most powerful vector of this change can be described by three related catchphrases: digitalization, artificial intelligence, and dataism. Drawing on considerable expertise from a wide range of scholars and practitioners, this interdisciplinary collection addresses the challenges, impacts, opportunities and regulation of this civilizational transformation from a variety of angles, including technology, philosophy, cultural studies, international law, sociology and economics. This book will be of special interest to scholars, students, analysts, policy planners, and decision-makers in think tanks, international organizations, and state agencies studying and dealing with the development and governance of disruptive technologies.

Autorentext

Henning Glaser is the director, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Thammasat University.

Pindar Wong is an Internet pioneer and the former Chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Inhalt

Introduction: Governing the Technetronic Revolution? An Uncertain Future Between Paradise and Pandemonium by Henning Glaser

Chapter 1: Why Sex Robots Should Fear Us by Nicholas Agar & Pablo García-Barranquero

Chapter 2: Global Culture for Global Technology: Religious Values and Progress in Artificial Intelligence by Robert M. Geraci & Yong Sup Song

Chapter 3: The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism and Technological Posthumanism by Toni Loh

Chapter 4: Corporate Spies: Industrial Cyber Espionage and the Obligation to Prevent Trans-Boundary Harm by Russell Buchan

**Chapter 5: Machine Supererogation and Deontic Bias by Jonathan Pengelly

Chapter 6: The Hacker Way: Moral Decision Logics with Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems by Elke Schwarz

Chapter 7: A Roadmap for Living & Working with Intelligent Machines by Mark Fenwick & Erik P. M. Vermeulen

Chapter 8: AI, Chatbots and Transformations of the Self by Anthony Elliott

Chapter 9: Computational Power in the Digital World by Massimo Durante

Chapter 10: Law, Governance and Artificial Intelligence - the Case of Intelligent Online Dispute Resolution by John Zeleznikow

Chapter 11: Total Surveillance - Everybody Watching Everybody Else by Vincent C. Müller