Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence

1. Front Matter

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2. Political Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Social Production and Artificial Intelligence

      • Ryan David Kiggins

      Pages 3-16

   3. The Role of Women in Contemporary Technology and the Feminization of Artificial Intelligence and Its Devices

      • Mirjam Gruber, Roland Benedikter

      Pages 17-38

   4. Rise of the Centaurs: The Internet of Things Intelligence Augmentation

      • Leslie Paul Thiele

      Pages 39-61

   5. AI in Public Education: Humble Beginnings and Revolutionary Potential

      • Kenneth Rogerson, Justin Sherman

      Pages 63-83

   6. Chinese and U.S. AI and Cloud Multinational Corporations in Latin America

      • Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane

      Pages 85-111

   7. AI Application in Surveillance for Public Safety: Adverse Risks for Contemporary Societies

      • David Perez-Des Rosiers

      Pages 113-143

3. Global Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Artificial Intelligence for Peace: An Early Warning System for Mass Violence

      • Michael Yankoski, William Theisen, Ernesto Verdeja, Walter J. Scheirer

      Pages 147-175

   3. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Threat of Democratized Artificial Intelligence

      • Ori Swed, Kerry Chávez

      Pages 177-194

   4. Comparison of National Artificial Intelligence (AI): Strategic Policies and Priorities

      • Sdenka Zobeida Salas-Pilco

      Pages 195-217

   5. Militarization of Artificial Intelligence: Progress and Implications

      • Shaza Arif

      Pages 219-239

   6. Artificial Intelligence and International Security

      • Nitin Agarwala, Rana Divyank Chaudhary

      Pages 241-254

4. Back Matter

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This volume seeks to leverage academic interdisciplinarity to develop insight into how Artificial intelligence (AI), the latest GPT to emerge, may influence or radically change socio-political norms, practices, and institutions. AI may best be understood as a predictive technology. “Prediction is the process of filling in missing information. Prediction takes information you have, often called ‘data’, and uses it to generate information you don’t have” (Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb 2018, 13; also see Mayer-Schonberger and Ramge 2018). AI makes prediction cheap because the cost of information is now close to zero. Cheap prediction through AI technologies are radically altering how we govern ourselves, interact with each other, and sustain society. Contributors to this volume represent the academic disciplines of Sociology and Political Science working within a diverse set of intra-disciplinary fields that when combined, yield novel insights into the following questions guiding this volume:

How might AI transform people? How might AI transform socio-political practices? How might AI transform socio-political institutions?

• artificial intelligence
• society
• politics
• security
• democracy
• international relations

• Center for Global Governance, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

  Tugrul Keskin

• Political Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, USA

  Ryan David Kiggins

Tugrul Keskin, is Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Director of the Center for Global Governance at Shanghai University. 

Ryan Kiggins, is Instructor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, USA. 

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