Governing AI: A Primer

Author:   Onur Bakiner (Seattle University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009738309


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Governing AI: A Primer


Overview

Governing AI is about getting AI right. Building upon AI scholarship in science and technology studies, technology law, business ethics, and computer science, it documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists proposed solutions to AI-related problems around the world, and assesses their impact. The book presents a vast range of theoretical debates and empirical evidence to document how and how well technical solutions, business self-regulation, and legal regulation work. It is a call to think inside and outside the box. Technical solutions, business self-regulation, and especially legal regulation can mitigate and even eliminate some of the potential risks and actual harms arising from the development and use of AI. However, the long-term health of the relationship between technology and society depends on whether ordinary people are empowered to participate in making informed decisions to govern the future of technology – AI included.

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Author:   Onur Bakiner (Seattle University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781009738309


ISBN 10:   1009738305
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Thinking Outside and Inside the Box to Govern AI; Chapter 1: What's in an Abbreviation? Defining and Understanding AI, 2. The Quest for Good AI; 3. When Things Go Wrong: Understanding AI Risks and Harms; 4. Technical Solutions to AI Risks and Harms; 5. AI Ethics as Business Self-Regulation: Corporate Principles, Boards, Councils and Teams; 6. Governing AI with Laws and Policies; 7. Another Way to Govern AI: A Radical-Democratic Vision; Prologue: What is to be done?

Reviews

'In this timely and indispensable guide, Onur Bakiner masterfully explains the complexities of AI governance, from technical fixes to legal regulation. But its true power lies in its urgent call for a radical democratic vision where empowered citizens, not just experts, shape the future of technology.' Paolo Benanti, Franciscan of the Third Order Regular – TOR, Professor, Pontifical Gregorian University


Author Information

Onur Bakiner is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Technology Ethics Initiative at Seattle University.

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