Governing AI - A Primer

Governing AI is about getting AI right. Building upon AI scholarship in science and technology studies, technology law, business ethics, and computer science, it documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists proposed solutions to AI-related problems around the world, and assesses their impact. The book presents a vast range of theoretical debates and empirical evidence to document how and how well technical solutions, business self-regulation, and legal regulation work. It is a call to think inside and outside the box. Technical solutions, business self-regulation, and especially legal regulation can mitigate and even eliminate some of the potential risks and actual harms arising from the development and use of AI. However, the long-term health of the relationship between technology and society depends on whether ordinary people are empowered to participate in making informed decisions to govern the future of technology - AI included.

List of contents

Introduction: Thinking Outside and Inside the Box to Govern AI; Chapter 1: What's in an Abbreviation? Defining and Understanding AI, 2. The Quest for Good AI; 3. When Things Go Wrong: Understanding AI Risks and Harms; 4. Technical Solutions to AI Risks and Harms; 5. AI Ethics as Business Self-Regulation: Corporate Principles, Boards, Councils and Teams; 6. Governing AI with Laws and Policies; 7. Another Way to Govern AI: A Radical-Democratic Vision; Prologue: What is to be done?

About the author

Onur Bakiner is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Technology Ethics Initiative at Seattle University.

Product details

• Authors: Bakiner Onur
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.03.2026
• EAN: 9781009738309
• ISBN: 978-1-009-73830-9
• Weight: 500 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Artificial Intelligence, LAW / General, Comparative Politics, comparative law, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Impact of science & technology on society, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Impact of science and technology on society, IT & Communications law, Artificial intelligence law and regulations