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Rethinking AI for Good Governance

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ID9685797
AuthorsHelen Z Margetts (0000-0003-4597-8283, corresponding author), Helen Margetts
Year2022
Volume151
Issue2
Pages360-371
Publication date2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
PublisherMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_01922
OpenAlexW4226076751
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited3

This essay examines what AI can dofor government, specifically through three generic tools at the heart of governance: detection, prediction, and data-driven decision-making. Public sector functions, such as resource allocation and the protection of rights, are more normatively loaded than those of firms, and AI poses greater ethical challenges than earlier generations of digital technology, threatening transparency, fairness, and accountability. The essay discusses how AI might be developed specifically for government, with a public digital ethos to protect these values. Three moves that could maximize the transformative possibilities for a distinctively public sector AI are the development of government capacity to foster innovation through AI; the building of integrated and generalized models for policy-making; and the detection and tackling of structural inequalities. Combined, these developments could offer a model of data-intensive government that is more efficient, ethical, fair, prescient, and resilient than ever before in administrative history

Accountability · Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Ethos · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Public sector · Sociology · Transformative learning · Transparency (behavior · Law · Legal and Policy Issues · Public Administration

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Citations per year3,67
Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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