AI and Structural Injustice
Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Browne explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to exacerbate structural injustice. First, she introduces the seminal account of structural injustice by the feminist theorist Iris Marion Young and discusses one of its definitive elements, ‘untraceability’. Drawing on Arendt’s concept of ‘thoughtlessness’ and the work of other scholars such as Benjamin, Browne goes on to consider structural injustice in relation to algorithmic decision making, which, itself, is becoming increasingly untraceable. Browne concludes with some suggestions on how we might think about mitigating the structural injustice that AI poses through democratic governance mechanisms. By way of example, she advocates adopting several elements of the mini-public approach within regulatory public-body landscapes to form a new pluralistic lay-centric ‘AI Public Body’.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Jude Browne
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4388932745