An interdisciplinary collection, this volume draws on considerable expertise from scholars and practitioners to address the challenges, impacts and the regulation of this civilizational transformation from the perspectives of various disciplines including philosophy, international law, sociology, cultural studies, economics, and technology.

Henning Glaser, Director, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Thammasat University

Chapter 1: Why Sex Robots Should Fear Us

Chapter 2: Global Culture for Global Technology: Religious Values and Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 3: The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism and Technological Posthumanism

Chapter 4: Corporate Spies: Industrial Cyber Espionage and the Obligation to Prevent Trans-Boundary Harm

Chapter 5: Machine Supererogation and Deontic Bias

Chapter 6: The Hacker Way: Moral Decision Logics with Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

Chapter 7: A Roadmap for Living & Working with Intelligent Machines

Chapter 8: AI, Chatbots and Transformations of the Self

Chapter 9: Computational Power in the Digital World

Chapter 10: Law, Governance and Artificial Intelligence - the Case of Intelligent Online Dispute Resolution

Chapter 11: Total Surveillance - Everybody Watching Everybody Else