Political philosophy
What makes power legitimate, what freedom and equality require, and who answers to whom, now that AI systems increasingly exercise and mediate power.
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Selected papers
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Must-reads for understanding the field and why it matters for AGI institutions.
Argues that governing power is legitimate only if it can be publicly explained to those it governs, so opaque computational systems put the legitimacy of the institutions that use them in question.
Argues that AI systems now form part of Rawls's basic structure of society, so they fall under the same demands of public justification, equal rights, and fair distribution as other major institutions.
Argues that democratizing the digital sphere takes more than regulating platforms, and sets out institutions through which citizens could exercise collective control over digital infrastructure.
Shows that respecting user autonomy can mean acting on stated wishes, building the user's capabilities, or protecting their choices, and works through how an AI agent should act when these conflict.
Work in the field
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Recent work in the field worth knowing.
Foundations
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Older work that gives background on the field.
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