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The Social Contract for AI

open access: yesCoRR, 2020
Like any technology, AI systems come with inherent risks and potential benefits. It comes with potential disruption of established norms and methods of work, societal impacts and externalities. One may think of the adoption of technology as a form of social contract, which may evolve or fluctuate in time, scale, and impact.
Mirka Snyder Caron, Abhishek Gupta
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South Africa’s social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?

open access: yesActa Academica, 2018
Taking the South African constitution as an eminent symbol of the South African social contract, and noting the opinion of many that the contract has failed to deliver, this article explores the concept of the social contract in South Africa by ...
Rachel Adams
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Moral Community and Moral Order

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2020
This work aligns James Buchanan’s theory of social contract with the structure of Michael Moehler’s multilevel social contract. Most importantly, this work develops Buchanan’s notions of moral community and moral order.
James Caton
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Between Covenant and Contract: Jewish Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Social contract theory has long been at the center of political theory, and one of the inheritors of the social contract tradition, liberalism, reverberates through contemporary political life.
Sarah B. Greenberg
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Demography and the social contract [PDF]

open access: yesDemography, 2002
Abstract As the most demographically complex nation in the world, the United States faces ever more formidable challenges to fulfill its commitment to the democratic values of equity and inclusion as the foreign-born share of the population increases.
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The social contract as a trend of transforming the low-income state social support: trends and risks

open access: yesСемиотические исследования, 2023
The article is devoted to the issue of introducing social contracts into the practice of state social support for low-income citizens. The author considers the social contract as a trend of the state social support institutional transformation and a tool
Svetlana V. Egorova
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Remarks on Andreas Abegg's paper “From the Social Contract to a Social Contract Law” [PDF]

open access: yesAncilla Iuris, 2008
The fact that a big, tacit social contract crumbles into a multitude of tiny explicit contracts, which govern a load of social duties, relationships and behaviours, is a striking and enigmatic phenomenon.
Maurizio Borghi
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Violent societies: Educating the upcoming generations about their social contract

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2014
The citizens of many countries in the world, particularly of South Africa, are experiencing the collapse of the social order in their country as a result of certain circumstances.
Johannes L. van der Walt   +1 more
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Contracts with Social Multipliers [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
We develop a model of contracting in which individual effort choices are subject to social pressure to conform to the average effort level of others in the same risk‐sharing group. As in related models of social interactions, a change in exogenous variables or contract terms generates a social multiplier.
Mary A. Burke, Kislaya Prasad
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Why We Need a New Eco-Social Contract

open access: yessozialpolitik.ch, 2022
Calls for new economic and social approaches to combine social and climate justice have become louder and more urgent in light of the current COVID-19 and climate crises.
Isabell Kempf, Katja Hujo, Rafael Ponte
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