Carlos Cuevas-Garcia and myself have a chapter in Florian Muhle and Indra Bock’s book: Communicative AI in (Inter-)Action. It’s about what happened when Carlos and myself spent a week watching a ‘smart city robot comptition’ take place in Milton Keynes’ biggest mall. Abstract This chapter presents a situational analysis of SciRoc, the first ever “Smart … Read More
I have two chapters in Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making, the 2024 Manchester University Press book edited by the amazing Caroline Redhead and Melanie Smallman. The work comes from our collaborative pandemic project, The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator. Chapter 3: Evaluating post-pandemic plans for social care data infrastructuresBy: Cian O’Donovan Chapter 4: Data ethics … Read More
Stilgoe, J. and O’Donovan, C. (2023) Trials and tribulations: Who learns what from urban experiments with self-driving vehicles? in Artificial Intelligence and the City Urbanistic Perspectives on AI. Edited By Cugurullo, F. Caprotti, F. Cook, M. Karvonen, A. McGuirk, P. and Marvin, S. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365877-4
Author: Cian O’Donovan Publication: Forthcoming chapter in Pandemic and Beyond Volume 4: Law and Ethics. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8197546 Abstract COVID-19 exposed long standing neglect in UK social care. This neglect cost lives. It underpinned failings in preparedness within the sector and failures in immediate responses by governments. Data, and the infrastructures that … Read More
Title: Chapter 4.2 The BBC as market shaper and creator Authors: Mariana MAzzucato and Cian O’Donovan Full book download. Précis: At the heart of the government’s White Paper on the future of the BBC is an implicit accusation that the broadcaster is ‘crowding out’ the market through the scale and quality of its services. Cite: … Read More