Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence

The UCL IIPP is working to rethink how digitalisation and artificial intelligence can empower public value creation and public purpose.

About

Digitalization is not neutral. The outcomes of digitalization are a function of how digital technologies are governed. In turn, different frameworks addressing questions such as who designs and owns the infrastructure, how data is created and who manages it, and how value is created and destroyed through digitalization processes can create radically different outcomes. IIPP seeks to build a research agenda investigating how public and private actors can better relate to govern the direction of digital technologies and AI in society, driving potential for public value creation and radical visions of economic change.听

This research agenda will focus on building out and refining a number of verticals, among them:听

Public sector digital capabilities:听
Varieties of Digital Capitalism
Algorithmic Rents
Governing AI for Public Purpose.听

Policy implications

IIPP aims to create the frameworks and analytics tools understanding how digital technologies and artificial intelligence impact governance and value. Collaborating with key partners and funders across our networks, the IIPP digital technologies and AI program will work as a learning community around the narratives, funding, development, use, and governance of these technologies. This research will play a fundamental role as a cross-cutting research impacting IIPP鈥檚 perspective on global innovation and technology policy agendas, as well as how technology shapes IIPP鈥檚 other research areas and projects.

Projects

Governing artificial intelligence for public purpose

Digital Economy and Algorithmic Rents

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Publications听

Working Papers and Policy Reports

Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon, Ilan Strauss, Tim O'Reilly, Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Ryan-Collins
,听Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Entsminger, Rainer Kattel
Public value and platform governance,听Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Entsminger, Rainer Kattel
Theorising and mapping modern economic rents,听Mariana Mazzucato,听Josh Ryan-Collins,听Giorgos Gouzoulis

Articles

, Project Syndicate, 31 January听2022, Mariana Mazzucato, Ilan Strauss
, MIT Technology Review, 11 March 2021,听Tim O'Reilly
, Sifted, 23 February 2021, Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel, Josh Entsminger
, Project Syndicate, 5 February 2021, Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel, Tim O'Reilly, Josh Entsminger
,听Project Syndicate, 2听October 2019, Mariana Mazzucato
, Quartz, 17 July 2019,听Tim O'Reilly
, Quartz, 5 February 2019,听Tim O'Reilly