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The Political Economy of Robots - Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century
Ryan Kiggins
Verlag Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN 9783319514666 , 345 Seiten
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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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