Titel
Climate change and the political pathways of AI: The technocracy-democracy dilemma in light of artificial intelligence and human agency
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Abstract
It is generally thought that artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on politics and democracy. Meanwhile, the technology is also often hailed a solution to key societal and environmental challenges. It raises questions regarding, for example, how we can and should deal with climate change. This article links and discusses these issues by putting them in the context of a technocracy-democracy dilemma and by using the concept of critical junctures. Then it identifies two political pathways of AI and critically discusses their underlying assumptions. This offers a useful framework for further discussion of the relations between AI, climate change, and democracy, and enables the examination of important issues for the politics of technology, such as the role of human expertise vis-à-vis artificial intelligence, the problems raised by techno-solutionism, and the question at what level of governance AI and climate change should be addressed.
Stichwort
Artificial intelligenceDemocracyTechnocracyClimate changeCritical juncturesPolitics of technology
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:2044720
Erschienen in
Titel
Technology in Society
Band
75
ISSN
0160-791X
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Publication
Elsevier BV
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
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