Handbook on public policy and artificial intelligence / Regine Paul, Emma Carmel, and Jennifer Cobbe, editors.

Includes index.

Introduction to the Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence: vantage points for critical inquiry -- PART I AI AND PUBLIC POLICY: CHALLENGE TO KEY CONCEPTS -- Researching the politics of automated systems of governing: a thematic review -- Power in AI and public policy -- What’s old is new: AI and bureaucracy -- AI and the logics of public sector organizations -- AI technologies and the reconfiguration of discretion in street-level bureaucracy -- PART II AI AND THE POLITICS OF GOVERNANCE: DECONSTRUCTING NORMATIVE PRECEPTS -- Accounting for context in AI technologies -- AI and bias -- AI and ethics: policies of de-politicisation? -- Algorithm and code: explainability, interpretability and policy -- AI and interoperability -- AI and environmental sustainability -- AI and transparency -- Trust and trustworthiness in artificial intelligence -- PART III AI AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC POLICY AND REGULATION -- Decolonial critique in AI policy-making and policy analysis -- The platformisation of global development -- Decoding and reimagining AI governance beyond colonial shadows -- Procurement and artificial intelligence -- Regulatory interdependence in AI -- The politics of regulating AI technologies: towards AI competition states -- PART IV AI AND PUBLIC POLICY ON THE GROUND: PRACTICES AND CONTESTATIONS -- The geopolitics of AI in warfare: contested conceptions of human control -- AI in policing and law enforcement -- AI in border control and migration: techno-racism and exclusion at digital borders -- Critical appraisal of large language models in judicial decision-making -- Regulating automated decision-making in the justice system: what is the problem? -- AI, regulation, and the world of work: the competing approaches of the US and China -- Reimagining failed automation: from neoliberal punitive automated welfare towards a politics of care -- AI in care: a solution to the ‘care crisis’ in England? -- AI in child protection -- Governing AI technologies in healthcare: beyond the ‘ethics bubble’ -- AI and urban governance: from the perils of smart cities to Amazon Inc. urbanism -- Index.

This timely Handbook explores the relationship between public policy and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across a broad range of geographical, technical, political and policy contexts. It contributes to critical AI studies, focusing on the intersection of the norms, discourses, policies, practices and regulation that shape AI in the public sector. Expert authors in the field discuss the creation and use of AI technologies, and how public authorities respond to their development, by bringing together emerging scholarly debates about AI technologies with longer-standing insights on public administration, policy, regulation and governance. Contributions in the Handbook mobilize diverse perspectives to critically examine techno-solutionist approaches to public policy and AI, dissect the politico-economic interests underlying AI promotion and analyse implications for sustainable development, fairness and equality. Ultimately, this Handbook questions whether regulatory concepts such as ethical, trustworthy or accountable AI safeguard a democratic future or contribute to a problematic de-politicization of the public sector. The Handbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligenceis a crucial resource for students and scholars of public policy and administration, political economy, political science, sociology, law, regulation and governance, computer science and technology studies. It is also beneficial to policy practitioners, civil society actors and regulators working with AI technologies.