Regulating Autonomy - Ethics, Values and Governance in Artificial...

Regulating Autonomy: Ethics, Values and Governance in Artificial Intelligence

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English | April 5, 2026 | ISBN-10: 303213062X | 496 pages| Epub PDF (True) | 19 MB

This book offers an interdisciplinary overview of autonomy in artificial intelligence and robotics, positioning it as the central concept in the contemporary debate on AI’s societal integration. The term itself is dangerously ambiguous: its meaning shifts dramatically when applied to a machine versus a human. While there is consensus on machine agency (the capacity to act), attributing autonomy in the rich, normative sense we attribute it to humans is a far more controversial and complex assertion.This volume moves beyond isolated systems to consider hybrid human-machine autonomy, a space where AI’s capabilities intersect with human agency. Autonomy is therefore explored not just as a technical attribute, but as a relational concept that redefines a user’s capacity for self-governance in contexts of shared decision-making, assistive technology, and human augmentation. This central tension requires a broader approach to governance. The book argues that effective “regulation” is not merely law, but a wider domain for reflection,