George Zarkadakis

Cyber Republic (eBook, ePUB)

Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A science and tech expert reveals how we can make liberal democracies more inclusive-and the digital economy more equitable-in the age of artificial intelligence. Around the world, liberal democracies are in crisis. Citizens have lost faith in their government; right-wing nationalist movements frame the political debate. At the same time, economic inequality is increasing dramatically; digital technologies have created a new class of super-rich entrepreneurs. Automation threatens to transform the free economy into a zero-sum game in which capital wins and labor loses. But is this digital dystopia inevitable? In Cyber Republic, technology and management expert Geroge Zarkadakis explains how artificial intelligence-together with intelligent robotics, sophisticated sensors, communication networks, and big data-will fundamentally reshape the global economy. Zarkadakis presents an alternative, outlining a plan for using technology to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable. We need not fear automation, he argues. In a post-work future, intelligent machines can collaborate with humans to achieve the human goals of inclusivity and equality. Cyber Republic is no less than a guide for the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262360128
• Artikelnr.: 58671757

Autorenporträt

George Zarkadakis leads the Future of Work consulting practice at Willis Towers Watson, a global risk management consulting firm. The author of In Our Own Image: The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence and other books, he has written extensively on science and technology for publications including Aeon and Wired.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD BY DON TAPSCOTT ix
INTRODUCTION xv
1 DEMOCRACY VERSUS LIBERALISM 1
2 MACHINES THAT THINK 13
3 A WORLD WITHOUT WORK 21
4 MACHINES AT THE HELM 39
5 A NEW WORLD ORDER 53
6 CITIZEN ASSEMBLIES 67
7 AI FOR GOOD 85
8 THE WEB OF EVERYTHING 101
9 DEMOCRATIZING THE AI ECONOMY 117
10 SCALING A POLIS 133
EPILOGUE: USING CYBER REPUBLIC 143
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 147
NOTES 149
INDEX 167