Political Responsibility and Tech Governance

Jude Browne is Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, a Professorial Fellow in Social and Political Sciences at King's College and the Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. Jude's research interests are in political theories of equality, feminist theory, political responsibility, public interest, public policy, structural injustice and the impact of technology on society.

'Who must bear the costs of complying with a rule when no one in particular is responsible for its breach? New technologies present this classic problem to regulators on an unprecedented scale. Jude Browne uses a powerful concept of structural injustice to argue that independence from politics offers regulators a path toward accurately understanding public interests, rather than capture by the tech industries. This book is required reading for anyone seriously interested in the modern regulatory state.' Anthony M. Bertelli, Author of Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Government

• Introduction; 1. The problem of structural injustice: where nobody is liable, who is responsible?; 2. Artificial intelligence and ground truth; 3. Repro-tech and the genetic supermarket; 4. Putting the public into the public body; 5. Conclusion: technology is the answer, what was the question?; References.