The Political Economy of Robots: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century

Recommended by: Rasananda Panda

Content:

Chapter 1. Introduction (Kiggins) -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Global Value Chains (Cox and Wartenbe) -- Chapter 3. Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-State Symbiosis (Carey and Marak) -- Chapter 4. Policy Implications of People Analytics and the Automated Workplace (Sharp) -- Chapter 5. Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care (Skinner and Franz) -- Chapter 6. Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation (Walsh and Sculos) -- Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation (Woolley) -- Chapter 8. The Safe Hand (Gatch) -- Chapter 9. Against our Better Judgment: Practical Wisdom in an Age of Smart(er) Machines (Thiele) -- Chapter 10. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory? (Kiggins) -- Chapter 11. Diplomacy's Lesson's Learned: First World War submarine warfare and the 21st Century drone (Olmstead) -- Chapter 12. Conflict, Cohesion and Comrades in Arms: Social Implications of Robotics in the Military (Manjikian) -- Chapter 13. Robots writing Chinese and fighting underwater (Austin) -- Chapter 14. Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant (Arkin).