Rules for a Flat World
The legal rules that currently guide global integration are no longer working. They are too slow, costly, and localized for increasingly complex advanced economies, and fail to address issues such as poverty, instability, and oppression for the billions living in the developing world.
In Short:
The latest edition (2020) includes a new prologue on artificial intelligence (AI)—its risks, benefits, evolution, and regulation. Hadfield tackles this pressing contemporary technology with insights into how we might understand, govern, and build AI that is responsive to human values.
Abstract
Technology and globalization are uprooting and reshaping daily life. Global supply chains are now deeply embedded, and digital platforms connect almost everyone in complex networks of data and exchange. This “flat world” is one of tremendous possibility, but it also poses challenges to stability and shared prosperity. In Rules for a Flat World, Gillian Hadfield argues that the legal rules that currently guide global integration are no longer working. They are too slow, costly, and localized for increasingly complex advanced economies, and fail to address issues such as poverty, instability, and oppression for the billions living in the developing world. Hadfield proposes a new set of rules that enhance complex societies and economic interdependence and makes the case for building a more agile infrastructure. In this paperback edition, she presents a new prologue to her sweeping historical overview and vision of the relationship between law and economic and social prosperity.
About the author
Gillian K. Hadfield
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance, School of Government and Policy and Whiting School of Engineering
Gillian K. Hadfield’s research focuses on innovative design for legal, regulatory, and technical systems for AI, computational models of human normative systems, and building AI systems that understand and respond to human values and norms.