By Ralph Schroeder
Online politics is hotly debated, but most research focuses on the West. This book shifts attention to two rising giants - India and China - offering a fresh look at how digital politics works beyond Western democracies.
By Antonia-Felicia Toffert, Katharina Klotz, Huw Roberts, Cyril Birks, and Mariarosaria Taddeo
AI ethics in defence faces a gap between principles and practice. Reviewing 1,085 studies, this paper identifies seven interconnected barriers and proposes strategies to strengthen governance, build capacity, and embed ethics across the AI lifecycle.
By Brian Kot, Jack Burling Nebe, and Mariarosaria Taddeo
Battlefield data are vital for AI-enabled defence but underexplored. This article reviews NATO and Five Eyes policies and proposes treating them as an artificial club good, with governance to maximise value while managing ethical and security risks.
By Carl Benedikt Frey
Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. Frey offers a fascinating journey to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.
By Huw Roberts, Mariarosaria Taddeo, and Luciano Floridi
Global AI governance is expanding but remains weak due to vague mandates, limited authority, and geopolitical tensions. This article proposes a framework to assess legitimacy and strengthen cooperation on AI safety and autonomous weapons.
By Mariarosaria Taddeo
The defence sector must address how to use advancing AI safely and effectively. Mariarosaria Taddeo offers a systematic analysis of AI’s challenges in defence, providing recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners.
By James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant.
AI is an extraction machine that feeds off humanity's collective effort and intelligence, churning through ever-larger datasets to power its algorithms. This book details what we need to do to fight for a more just digital future.
By Vili Lehdonvirta
Tech giants like Amazon, eBay and Apple currently rule the Internet like autocrats. Digital economy expert Vili Lehdonvirta explores the rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over our lives and proposes a new way forward.
By Philip N. Howard
Harnessing information from polling data, internet postings, and interviews with journalists, bot writers, and political consultants, Howard offers a way to identify and derail "bot" technologies that jeopardize our discourse and democracies.
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge
Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone.
By Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work.
By Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham
The Digital Continent investigates what the new world of digital work means for the lives of African workers. Anwar and Graham draw on a year-long field study in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda.