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In parallel with developments at the international and regional level, there has been evidence that growing inequality and economic insecurity is putting pressure on all collective units, at every level of societies. The promise of the reforms which created a new economic environment, of privatised services and ‘flexible’ employment, has turned into a threat, and new technologies now seem to intensify the risks to social institutions. This chapter considers how phenomena like the vandalisation of robot-driven cars by angry pedestrians, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled machines not fully understood by their operators for diagnosis of tumours, raise radical issues about how collective systems (transport, health care) should be organised in future.
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Jordan, B. (2020). Collapse of Collective Institutions. In: The Age of Disintegration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41445-0_3
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