Automation and responsibility in a digital welfare state

数字福利国家的自动化和责任

• 批准号: 2422282
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2422282
• 关键词: Automation; responsibility; digital; welfare; state

My research project will inquire into automation in/of the British welfare state and its ability to scale structural violence. I will interrogate and develop an understanding of soft war through software: information technology systems for population sorting and ranking that enable or prevent access to life opportunities and contribute to structural violence and indirect killing of populations.I will conduct qualitative and semi-structured interviews with developers, users and targets of systems that digitalise and/or automate the process of benefits allocation, (semi)autonomous systems or welfare robots. My fieldwork will engage with front-line workers employed by councils, (product) developers employed by companies commissioned to produce software for governments, and ideally with welfare recipients. When the distance from decision-making enlarges, a change in responsibility happens that is importantly related to the shift when the moral actor is not a cog in the machine, but is the machine itself.Documents that reveal state and corporate collaborations fatal for citizens and inhabitants are hidden from public view. As much as I would benefit from accessing such documents, the current situation demands a theoretical effort that could later translate into legislative demands for transparency and accountability.

我的研究项目将调查英国福利国家/地区的自动化及其扩展结构性暴力的能力。我将通过软件进行询问和发展对软战争的理解：用于人口分类和排名的信息技术系统，这些系统能够获得或阻止生活机会，并促进结构性暴力和间接杀害人口的杀害。我将进行定性和半结构化的访谈，与开发人员，使用者和/或自动分配的系统和/或自动分配的系统和/或自动分配的系统或自动化的系统自动或系统自动构成自动或锻炼。我的现场工作将与理事会雇用的一线工人互动，（产品）由委托为政府生产软件的公司雇用的开发人员，理想情况下是与福利接收者一起。当与决策扩大的距离扩大时，发生的责任变化发生在与机器中的齿轮不是机器上的齿轮时，这与转变重要相关，而是机器本身。尽管我将从访问此类文件中受益，但当前的情况需要一项理论上的努力，后来可以转化为对透明度和问责制的立法要求。