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Society-in-the-Loop: Programming the Algorithmic Social Contract [PDF]
Ethics and Information Technology, 2017 Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance mechanisms for autonomous machines.
Rahwan, Iyad
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Vaccination as a social contract: The case of COVID-19 and US political partisanship. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Comments on an article by L Korn et al (see record 2020-50506-003) Korn et al present evidence that vaccination constitutes a "social contract " In three controlled experiments, participants who chose to be vaccinated in an experimental vaccination game (
Weisel O.
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Evaluating social contract theory in the light of evolutionary social science. [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2021 Political philosophers have long drawn explicitly or implicitly on claims about the ways in which human behaviour is shaped by interactions within society.
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Vaccination as a social contract. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Vaccines support controlling and eliminating infectious diseases. As most vaccines protect both vaccinated individuals and the society, vaccination is a prosocial act. Its success relies on a large number of contributing individuals.
Korn L, Böhm R, Meier NW, Betsch C.
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Sustainability, 2022 The corona (COVID-19) pandemic is not a 'game changer' as such, but it is a crisis that offers opportunities for dealing with three interrelated crises: the ecological crisis (climate change, loss of biodiversity), the rise of populistic leaders, and the
Huntjens P, Kemp R.
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Implementing energy justice through a new social contract
Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 2023 The relationship between the energy sector and society is one that remains mired in controversy. There are multiple problems such as climate change, environmental impacts, economic and governance issues.
R. Heffron, Louis De Fontenelle
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An anthropology of the social contract: The political power of an idea
Critique of Anthropology, 2022 The idea of the social contract resonates in many societies as a framework to conceptualise state–society relations, and as a normative ideal which strives to improve them.
Gwen Burnyeat, Miranda Sheild Johansson
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Towards a Natural Social Contract
Towards a Natural Social Contract, 2021 In this chapter I will explain why and how the sustainability transition is humankind’s search for a new social contract: a Natural Social Contract (conceptualization by author).
P. Huntjens
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The The Social Contract Theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke: Comparative Analysis
Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities, 2021 This study engages in the concept of social contract of Hobbes and Locke, and the similarities and differences of their ideas. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both begin their political ideas with a discussion on the state of nature and the danger of living
John Michael V Sasan
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Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa
Social Science Research Network, 2022 Despite the low levels of taxation and public good provision in Africa, I provide evidence that a large proportion of Africans prefer lower taxation and fewer public goods. This cannot be explained by standard arguments about problems of accountability,
James Robinson
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