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This book examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and power in government. The growth of AI has drastically altered the political landscape, and the shifting power relationships between actors involved in deploying AI have the potential to radically impact the ways in which this technology is understood, adopted and implemented in government.
Drawing together scholars from public policy, public management, information technology and law, this volume throws light on the implications that AI poses for existing power relationships between actors involved in the deployment and use of AI in government, and for existing power relationships between the state and citizens. It addresses these issues through three disciplinary perspectives legal and regulatory studies, public policy and governance, and public management and innovation in order to fully assess the interplay between AI and power in different governmental settings across the world. Chapters examine a range of themes pertinent to AI and governance, including the exercise of power, liability issues, ethical policymaking, surveillance, and the use of AI tools in public organizations. A concluding chapter maps out future directions for the study of AI and power in government.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the book will appeal to all those interested in public policy, governance, public management, law, and technology studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Overview of the literature of AI and power in government: exploring the evolution of data-driven governance.- Part I. Legal and regulatory studies: European and North American perspectives .- 3. The choice of technology for automated decision-making in governmental authorities: is the power to make decisions based on law or on statistics?.- 4. AI and human rights as a control on the exercise of power: a North American perspective.- 5. AI-based rights of access.- 6. The future of liability rules.- 7. Empowering people: humanizing legal information through AI and proactive legal design.- Part II. Public policy-making and governance.- 8. AI, policy and power.- 9. The roles of government in AI governance and policy-making: re-shaping or re-enforcing power asymmetries.- 10. Artificial intelligence governance.- 11. General data protection regulation: gamified control for fairnessor control through fear?.- 12. Policy design, power, and AI: the case of on-demand food delivery in Singapore.- Part III. Public administration and management.- 13. The political economy of artificial intelligence in public management.- 14. AI failure and power in government.- 15. AI and power in public service management.- 16. AI innovations and power.- 17. Human-centred design, power and AI.- 18. Reflections and future directions on AI and power in government.
About the author
Sorin Dan is Assistant Professor of Public Management at the School of Management of the University of Vaasa, Finland
Niina Mäntylä is Professor of Public Law at the School of Management of the University of Vaasa, Finland
Jane E. Fountain is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
