Political Responsibility and Tech Governance
AI, Repro-tech and Structural Injustice

Discusses how we should think politically about the ways in which AI and Repro-tech structurally change society.

Jude Browne (Author)

9781009447355, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 March 2025

224 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm, 0.46 kg

'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

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.

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?
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Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA]