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What rules? Framing the governance of artificial agency

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ID12652008
AuthorsCarl Gahnberg (Department of Political Science and International Relations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume40
Issue2
Pages194-210
Publication date2021-04-03
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1449-4035 • E-ISSN: 1839-3373
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/14494035.2021.1929729
OpenAlexW3182844159
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited45

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new, but recent years have seen a growing concern about the technology’s political, economic and social impact, including debates about its governance. This paper describes how an analysis of the technology’s governance should build on the understanding of AI as the creation of artificial agents, and that the challenge that governance seeks to address is best understood as one of material agency. It describes how relevant rules can be systematically analyzed across different applications by considering the fundamental properties of artificial agents. The paper concludes by describing how the framework can be applied for further governance studies, and as a means to bridge insights across social science and technical perspectives on AI

Agency (philosophy · Corporate governance · Economics · Framing (construction · Management · Management science · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law

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