1st Edition
Post-Human Institutions and Organizations Confronting the Matrix
When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since. This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and human enhancement – that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first-person perspective, concerns and reflexivity. It looks at how the smart machines are used as agents of change in the basic institutions and organisations that hold contemporary societies together, for example in the family and the household, in commercial corporations, in health institutions or in the military. Its main purpose is to enrich the ongoing public discussion of the social and political implications of the smart machines by looking at the extent to which they further digitalise and bureaucratise the world, in particular by asking whether they are used to develop techno-totalitarian societies that corrode normativity and solidarity.
1. Introduction: Digital Society’s Techno-totalitarian Matrix
Ismael Al-Amoudi and Emmanuel Lazega
2. What They Are Saying About Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement
Doug Porpora
3. Considering Artificial Intelligence Personhood
Margaret S. Archer
4. Post-Human Sociality: Morphing Experience and Emergent Forms
Andrea M. Maccarini
5. The Digital Matrix and The Hybridisation of Society
Pierpaolo Donati
6. Stupid Ways of Working Smart? Colonising the Future Through Policy Advice
Jamie Morgan
7. Anormative Black Boxes: Artificial Intelligence and Health Policy
Ismael Al-Amoudi and John S. Latsis
8. Swarm-Teams With Digital Exoskeleton: On New Military Templates For The Organizational Society
Emmanuel Lazega
Biography
Ismael Al-Amoudi is Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, Univ Grenoble Alpes ComUE, France.
Emmanuel Lazega is Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France.