The Political Philosophy of AI: An Introduction

Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
	Rationale, aims, and approach of this book
	Structure of the book and overview of its chapters
2 Freedom: Manipulation by AI and Robot Slavery
	Introduction: Historical declarations of liberty and contemporary slavery
	AI, surveillance, and law enforcement: Taking away negative freedom
	AI and the steering of human behavior: Circumventing human autonomy
	Threats to self-realization and emancipation: Exploitation by means of AI and the problem with robot slaves
	Who decides about AI? Freedom as participation, AI in elections, and freedom of speech
	Other politically relevant notions of freedom and other values
3 Equality and Justice: Bias and Discrimination by AI
	Introduction: Bias and discrimination as a focus for raising problems concerning equality and justice
	Why is bias wrong (1)? Equality and justice in standard anglophone liberal political philosophy
	Why is bias wrong (2)? Class and identity theories as criticisms of universalist liberal thinking
	Conclusion: AI is not politically neutral
4 Democracy: Echo Chambers and Machine Totalitarianism
	Introduction: AI as a threat to democracy
	AI as a threat to democracy, knowledge, deliberation, and politics itself
		Starting with Plato: Democracy, knowledge, and expertise
		Beyond majority rule and representation
		Deliberative and participatory democracy versus agonistic and radical democracy
		Information bubbles, echo chambers, and populism
		More problems: Manipulation, replacement, accountability, and power
	AI and the origins of totalitarianism: Lessons from Arendt
		AI and totalitarianism
		Arendt on the origins of totalitarianism and the banality of evil
5 Power: Surveillance and (Self-)Disciplining by Data
	Introduction: Power as a topic in political philosophy
	Power and AI: Towards a general conceptual framework
	Marxism: AI as a tool for technocapitalism
	Foucault: How AI subjects us and makes us into subjects
		Disciplining and surveillance
		Knowledge, power, and the making and shaping of subjects and selves
	Technoperformances, power, and AI
	Conclusion and remaining questions
6 What about Non-Humans? Environmental Politics and Posthumanism
	Introduction: Beyond a human-centered politics of AI and robotics
	Not only humans count, politically: The political status of animals and (non-human) nature
	Implications for the politics of AI and robotics
		The political significance of the impact of AI on non-humans and natural environments
		Political status for AI itself?
7 Conclusion: Political Technologies
	What I have done in this book and what we can conclude
	What needs to be done next: The question regarding political technologies
References
Index
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