Constitutional Morality and the Emerging Social Imaginary of the Information Revolution

13 Pages Posted: 8 May 2019

See all articles by Kevin P. Lee

Kevin P. Lee

North Carolina Central University School of Law

Date Written: April 11, 2019

Abstract

This essay argues that the information revolution is creating new social imaginary, a term defined by the philosopher, Charles Taylor, as referring to the way that social relations and expectations are commonly imagined in a society. AI today discovers social relations in graphs of networked knowledge too subtle for human beings to detect. It finds people and brings them together in dating sites and political factions, for example. And, it makes decisions by finding patterns that occur in graphs of human actions and preferences. This means it is creating a new social imaginary that includes a role for AI in understanding the patterns of human relation. The nature and scope of that new imaginary evident by considering how the foundational concepts of information technology challenge the traditional understanding of the American constitutional plan.

Keywords: information ethics, administrative state, artificial intelligence, constitutional law, democracy

Suggested Citation

Lee, Kevin Paul, Constitutional Morality and the Emerging Social Imaginary of the Information Revolution (April 11, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3370253 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3370253

Kevin Paul Lee (Contact Author)

North Carolina Central University School of Law ( email )

Durham, NC 27707
United States

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
95
Abstract Views
690
Rank
495,746
PlumX Metrics