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The Political Economy of Robots - Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century
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The Political Economy of Robots - Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century
von: Ryan Kiggins
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN: 9783319514666
345 Seiten, Download: 2770 KB
 
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

  Contents 6  
  Editor and Contributors 9  
  Acronyms 14  
  1 Robots and Political Economy 17  
     Utopia or Reality? 17  
     Human Prosperity and Peace 20  
     Information and the Robotic Revolution 22  
     References 30  
  2 The Politics of Global Value Chains 33  
     Introduction 33  
     Origins and Scope of the GVC 36  
     IPR and Corporate Hegemony 39  
     Transnational Corporations and Contract Manufacturers 45  
     ECM, Labor, and the Race to the Bottom 47  
     Automation, Change, and Adjustment 49  
     Conclusion 52  
     References 53  
  3 Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-state Symbiosis 57  
  4 Policy Implications of People Analytics and the Automated Workplace 76  
     Introduction 76  
     People Analytics 79  
     Artificial Intelligence and Software Algorithms 84  
     Robotics 89  
     Conclusion 92  
     References 93  
  5 Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care 96  
     Introduction 96  
     Philosophy of Medical Technology 99  
     Three Examples 101  
     Discussion 108  
     Conclusion 111  
     References 112  
  6 Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation 116  
     Weapons Grade Law Enforcement 116  
     Lethal Robots and the Repressive State Apparatus 119  
     The Shattered Laws of Robotics 123  
     Radically Humanized Technology? 126  
     Thinking Fromm’s Futures in Blomkamp’s Elysium and Chappie 132  
     Concluding Remarks 135  
     References 138  
  7 The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation 141  
     Introduction 141  
     A Brief History of Bots 143  
     A Bot Timeline 145  
     Automated Actors and Political Communication 146  
     Units of Analysis: Old, New, and Aggregate 147  
     Understanding Networks 148  
     Understanding Software and Algorithms 150  
     Understanding Modifications to Classical Units of Analysis 152  
     Automation, Qualitative Methods, and STS 154  
     Reconsidering Without Reinventing: Key Concepts in Ethnography of Information 154  
     The “Technically” Social: Challenges to Theory and Method 159  
     When Substrate Becomes Substance: Implications for Communication 161  
     Conclusion 163  
     References 164  
  8 The Safe Hand: Liquidity, Money, and Financial Innovation 170  
     Safe Assets, Financial Innovation, and Financial Technology 170  
        The Financial Crisis and the Safe Assets Debate 172  
        The Nature of Liquidity and Money as a Means-in-Itself 177  
        Money and Financial Innovation: Some Historical Episodes 179  
        The Chartalist Turn: How American Farmers Became a Constituency of Credit 182  
        Financial Innovation in a Chartalist World 186  
     References 192  
  9 Against Our Better Judgment: Practical Wisdom in an Age of Smart(er) Machines 196  
     The Rise of the Machines 197  
     Becoming Dangerous Stupid 205  
     Wicked Problems and Practical Wisdom 211  
     Conclusion 217  
     References 218  
  10 Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision-Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory? 223  
     References 242  
  11 Diplomacy’s Lesson’s Learned: First World War Submarine Warfare and the 21st Century Drone 247  
     Lesson One: Patience 248  
     Lesson Two: Clarity 251  
     Final Thoughts 256  
  12 Conflict, Cohesion, and Comrades in Arms: Social Implications of Robotics in the Military 260  
     The Military of Tomorrow: Robotically Enhanced 261  
     Military Robotics and the Likelihood of Revolutionary Change 264  
     Problem One: The Traditional Understanding of Military Leadership 266  
     Replicating or Reproducing Military Leadership in a Robotic Age: Ethical Dilemmas 268  
     A New Definition of Leadership 270  
     Problem Two: A New Paradigm of Unit Cohesion 272  
     Conclusion 276  
  13 Robots Writing Chinese and Fighting Underwater 281  
     Future US Directions in Military Robotics 283  
     Robotics Development in China: Institutional Setting 287  
     Military Robotics in China 292  
     Ethics and Diplomacy 295  
     Conclusion 296  
     References 297  
  14 Armed Drones: Automation, Autonomy, and Ethical Decision-Making 301  
     Autonomy and Ethical Decision-Making 301  
     Air Power, Just War and Ethical Hierarchy 303  
        Historical Air Power and Linear Ethical Hierarchy 304  
        Current Drone Use and Linear Ethical Hierarchy 306  
     Increasing Automation, Autonomy and in Bello Ethics 309  
        The Challenge of Autonomous Lethal Drones to Linear Ethical Hierarchies 311  
     Political Decision-Making and the Ethics of Resorting to Lethal Autonomous Drones 314  
     Summary 320  
     References 322  
  15 Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant 326  
     Why Technology Can Lead to a Reduction in Casualties on the Battlefield 329  
     Addressing Some of the Counter-Arguments 330  
     A Plea for the Noncombatant 331  
     The Way Forward? 332  
  16 Outlook for Prosperity and Peace in the Emergent Global Political Economy of Robots 336  
     References 341  
  Index 342  


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