Governing the Future

We are living in times of deep and disruptive change. Perhaps the most powerful vector of this change can be described by three related catchphrases: digitalization, artificial intelligence, and dataism. Drawing on considerable expertise from a wide range of scholars and practitioners, this interdisciplinary collection addresses the challenges, impacts, opportunities and regulation of this civilizational transformation from a variety of angles, including technology, philosophy, cultural studies, international law, sociology and economics. This book will be of special interest to scholars, students, analysts, policy planners, and decision-makers in think tanks, international organizations, and state agencies studying and dealing with the development and governance of disruptive technologies.

Henning Glaser is the director, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Thammasat University. Pindar Wong is an Internet pioneer and the former Chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Introduction: Governing the Technetronic Revolution? An Uncertain Future Between Paradise and Pandemonium by Henning Glaser Chapter 1: Why Sex Robots Should Fear Us by Nicholas Agar & Pablo García-Barranquero Chapter 2: Global Culture for Global Technology: Religious Values and Progress in Artificial Intelligence by Robert M. Geraci & Yong Sup Song Chapter 3: The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism and Technological Posthumanism by Toni Loh Chapter 4: Corporate Spies: Industrial Cyber Espionage and the Obligation to Prevent Trans-Boundary Harm by Russell Buchan Chapter 5: Machine Supererogation and Deontic Bias by Jonathan Pengelly Chapter 6: The Hacker Way: Moral Decision Logics with Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems by Elke Schwarz Chapter 7: A Roadmap for Living & Working with Intelligent Machines by Mark Fenwick & Erik P. M. Vermeulen Chapter 8: AI, Chatbots and Transformations of the Self by Anthony Elliott Chapter 9: Computational Power in the Digital World by Massimo Durante Chapter 10: Law, Governance and Artificial Intelligence - the Case of Intelligent Online Dispute Resolution by John Zeleznikow Chapter 11: Total Surveillance - Everybody Watching Everybody Else by Vincent C. Müller