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Reprogramming Politics: Mutual Intelligent Design

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Abstract

This chapter proposes a novel theory of transhuman politics. In the present day, technology is widely feared as a threat to democracy and progress. Social media spreads fake news, AI offers technocratic rather than deliberative solutions to society’s ills. In this respect there is a pronounced, political technophobia. The rise of AI has additionally spurred new political visions of technological emancipation spanning the ideological spectrum from libertarianism to socialism. Yet both its detractors and proponents miss the full radical political potential of a transhuman politics. It is one where non-humans and human citizens deploy the latest virtual, digital and manufacturing advances to mutually design their societies.

This chapter introduces a transhuman politics of mutual intelligent design. It builds, in this spirit, on emerging notions of “transhuman democracy” and “cyborg citizens” promoting the importance of social democracy to ensure that technology benefits the many not just the few. Moving beyond these valuable but limiting conceptions, we will then explore the exciting role of technologies like simulations and big data for enlivening and improving contemporary political democracies and social movements. This will be set against more critical concerns about the potential role of technology for leading to further exclusion, inequality and disenfranchisement. This will lead to a broader discussion of the ways in the future virtual worlds could exist as new public spaces for debate and social experimentation. Moreover, it will investigate the potentialities of creating an “open source democracy” where humans and non-humans make shared decisions of how to best design their environments for the public good. Will we be able to reprogram our politics so that we can redesign our society?

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Bloom, P. (2020). Reprogramming Politics: Mutual Intelligent Design. In: Identity, Institutions and Governance in an AI World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36181-5_6

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