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China and the Lessons of Modern Surveillance Technology
China is taking the lead in drawing on recent technological developments to vastly enhance its capacities to keep its people under surveillance.
Immigration: Europe's Normative Challenge
To absorb millions of immigrants into European societies requires a normative integration.
The Limits of Transparency
Transparency is viewed as a self-evident good in Western society.
Theoretical Implications of “High Rent”
Evidence indicates that when a party pays lobbyists to secure special benefits for that party, in terms of resource allocations by the government, that party gains a very high return on its outlays
Can We Save Privacy by Treating Info Like Private Property?
Amitai Etzioni
Can We Save Privacy by Treating Info Like Private Property?
Theoretical Implications of “High Rent”
Evidence indicates that when a party pays lobbyists to secure special benefits for that party, in terms of resource allocations by the government, that party gains a very high return on its outlays
The Moral Wrestler: Ignored by Maslow
One of Maslow’s great contributions is that he assumes that people are not merely economic creators who seek to maximize their happiness by consuming goods.
For the record: US democratization drives are failure-prone
Etzioni specified the conditions that successful democratization requires and showed that these conditions are not extant in the Middle East and many other parts of the world.
Job Collapse on the Road to New Athens
The case that America will not be able to replace jobs lost to technological advance is gaining adherents.
Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated?
From the latest Issues in Science and Technology, read why new technologies often spur public anxiety, but the intensity of concern about the im
Cyber Trust
This article reviews the existing literature on cyber trust and proposes directions for further research.
Moral Triage
Pros and Cons of Autonomous Weapons Systems
A review of the arguments for and against autonomous weapons systems, and a discussion of challenges to limiting and defining those systems.
Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence
This article reviews the reasons scholars hold that driverless cars and many other AI equipped machines must be able to make ethical decisions, and the difficulties this approach faces.
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