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23-03-2021 | Editorial
Perhaps Ned Ludd had a point?
Published in: AI & SOCIETY | Issue 4/2021
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Excerpt
AI & Society has covered a great deal of ground in the more than 30 years since we started publication. Our focus has always been on "Human-Centredness". This is not an arbitrary academic problem, to be discussed over coffee in the Senior Common Room, but concerns a real turning point in the evolution of human society and its relationship to the products of human endeavour. As research, development and creative entrepreneurship produce and apply new technologies which bring about massive intended and unintended changes in the ways in which we live, work and even think, the essential question facing us is "cui bono?"—who benefits? and how? This question bears directly onto the ways we live and are governed. As John Dewey argued (Dewey 1950):…“…Democracy has many meanings, but if it has a moral meaning, it is found in resolving that the test of all political institutions and industrial arrangements shall be the contribution they make to the all-round growth of every member of society.”