Democratizing Ai (Critical Powers)

Zimmermann, Annette

Manchester University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526183613

Full Description

Democratizing AI offers a powerful rethinking of how artificial intelligence should be governed. Challenging the dominance of tech elites in shaping AI's future, Zimmermann argues that AI deployment is a political act—one that must be subject to democratic control. She proposes a practical "playbook" for reclaiming agenda-setting power through civic participation, public ownership, and institutional reform. Engaging with leading critics, Zimmermann defends a risk-sensitive proceduralist approach while acknowledging the deeper structural challenges posed by capitalism, inequality, and democratic fatigue. This book is a call to action: to resist learned helplessness, confront techno-authoritarianism, and shape AI's trajectory in line with democratic values. Thoughtful, urgent, and visionary, the book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of technology and democracy.

Contents

Series editor's foreword — Peter Niesen
Contributors

Part I: Lead essay
Annette Zimmermann

1 Hype
2 Progress
3 Risk
4 Agendas
5 Strategies
6 Democracy
7 Future

Part II: Responses

8 AI, democracy, and the problem of collective disempowerment
Chiara Cordelli
9 Representative democracy and the harms of AI
Ritwik Agrawal and Thomas Christiano
10 "After the revolution"? on Annette Zimmermann's idea to democratize the AI agenda-setting
Nadia Urbinati
11 AI governance at a crossroads: Renovating democracy in the age of AI
Allison Stanger
12 Affirmative not critical: How AI language systems are changing the political public sphere
Regina Kreide
13 On the variety of ways of making philosophical sense of artificial intelligence
Mathias Risse

Part III

14 Reply to critics
Annette Zimmermann