Our Unfinished Work

Kevin P. Lee is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for AI and Democratic Governance. He previously held the Intel Social Justice and Racial Equity Professorship of Law at North Carolina Central University and is a research collaborator at North Carolina State University.

Table of Contents Preface: Our Unfinished Work Note on How to Read This Book: A Civic Symphony in Three Movements First Movement Of the People: The Crisis of Recognition 1. The Crisis of Recognition in the AI State 2. The Vanishing "We": The Fragile Fiction of a Common Story 3. Pattern Recognition and Race: The Long History of Who Gets to Be Seen 4. Training the Nation: The Archive, the Algorithm, and the Contested Memory of American Democracy 5. The Algorithm at the Door 6. Empire of the Self 7. Truth After the Fact 8. Belonging in the Time of Predictive Governance 9. Judgment and the Silence of the Law 10. The Ghost of the People 11. The Rhapsodic Theater 12. The Readerless Process 13. Anti-Fragile: The Formation of Democratic Courage in the Age of Permanent Surveillance Second Movement By the People: The Crisis of Agency 14. The Architecture of Assembly 15. The Ethics of Time 16. The Human Veto 17. The Unsolvable Equation 18. The Private Sovereign 19. The Parallel Polis 20. The Miracle of Natality Third Movement For the People: The Restoration of Moral Presence 21. The Civic Counterweight 22. The Formation of the Person 23. Civic Hope After the Machine 24. The Sanctuary of Doubt 25. The Agora of the Real 26. The Politics of the Neighbor 27. The Cathedral in Time 28. The Politics of the Real 29. The Unfinished Work