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The future of AI in government services and global risks: insights from design fictions
The evolution of government services in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its long-term implications are relevant topics impacting society. Developments in this area are surrounded by controversies about what is technically possible, what is feasible in terms of implementation, and what is desirable. In addition, AI’s ambiguous capacity to mitigate and accentuate global risks is remarkable. This research explores AI’s long-term implications through a literature-based design fiction approach, constructing speculative scenarios to examine the potential consequences of AI adoption in governance. The findings highlight three critical dilemmas: (1) AI’s dual role in enhancing efficiency while exacerbating algorithmic bias and surveillance concerns; (2) the potential displacement of human roles in public services, raising questions about accountability and transparency; and (3) the ethical trade-offs in AI-driven decision-making, particularly in law enforcement, healthcare, and education. These scenarios provide insights into the governance challenges AI may introduce, emphasizing the need for ethical guidelines, policy frameworks, and stakeholder engagement. By leveraging speculative narratives, this work contributes to Futures Research on AI in the public sector by offering a creative yet critical lens through which to explore its socio-technical impacts and global risks. These fictional stories will play a fundamental role in stimulating broader dialogues, exploring how AI may influence and redesign the roles played by professionals in government services and the citizens who use them.
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The sum of all fears
\"The search for a stolen nuclear weapon on American soil sends Jack Ryan on a dangerous mission with global consequences in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East, as Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play: a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in the United States. With one terrible act, distrust mounts, forces collide, and the floundering U.S. president seems unable to cope with the crisis. With the world on the verge of nuclear disaster, Ryan must frantically seek a solutionbefore the chiefs of state lose control of themselves and the world.\"--Back cover.
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The Impact of China on Cybersecurity: Fiction and Friction
Exaggerated fears about the paralysis of digital infrastructure and the loss of competitive advantage contribute to a spiral of mistrust in U.S.-China relations. In every category of putative Chinese cyber threat, there are also considerable Chinese vulnerabilities and Western advantages. China has inadvertently degraded the economic efficiency of its networks and exposed them to foreign infiltration by prioritizing political information control over technical cyber defense. Although China also actively infiltrates foreign targets, its ability to absorb stolen data is questionable, especially at the most competitive end of the value chain, where the United States dominates. Similarly, China's military cyber capacity cannot live up to its aggressive doctrinal aspirations, even as its efforts to guide national information technology development create vulnerabilities that more experienced U.S. cyber operators can attack. Outmatched by the West, China is resorting to a strategy of international institutional reform, but it benefits too much from multistakeholder governance to pose a credible alternative. A cyber version of the stability-instability paradox constrains the intensity of cyber interaction in the U.S.-China relationship—and in international relations more broadly—even as lesser irritants continue to proliferate.
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Overwatch
After his father gets him a job at the CIA, young attorney Alex Garnett becomes targeted in a series of dangerous events, including poisoning, kidnapping, torture, and murder and seeks the help of a neurotic hacker to unearth a long-hidden conspiracy.
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TILL DEATH DO US PART: PREPUBLICATION REVIEW IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
As a condition of access to classified information, most employees of the U.S. intelligence community are required to sign nondisclosure agreements that mandate lifetime prepublication review. In essence, these agreements require employees to submit any works that discuss their experiences working in the intelligence community—whether written or oral, fiction or nonfiction—to their respective agencies and receive approval before seeking publication. Though these agreements constitute an exercise of prior restraint, the Supreme Court has held them constitutional. This Note does not argue for or against the constitutionality of prepublication review; instead, it explores how prepublication review is actually practiced by agencies and concludes that the current system, which lacks executive-branch-wide guidance, grants too much discretion to individual agencies. It compares the policies of individual agencies with the experiences of actual authors who have clashed with prepublication-review boards to argue that agencies conduct review in a manner that is inconsistent at best, and downright biased and discriminatory at worst. The level of secrecy shrouding intelligence agencies and the concomitant dearth of publicly available information about their activities make it difficult to evaluate their performance and, by extension, the performance of our elected officials in overseeing such activities. In such circumstances, memoirs and other forms of expression by former agency employees become extremely valuable. The potential for discriminatory review—the approval of works that portray agencies in a positive light and the suppression of works more critical in toneilluminates the need for an improved system of prepublication review: one that respects the intelligence community's need to protect legitimate national-security information but demands more robust protections for the First Amendment rights of potential authors and the public's need for information with which to evaluate the highly secretive activities of their government. This Note concludes by arguing that action is required from all three branches of government to improve the system of prepublication review.
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The Kremlin's candidate : a novel
\"In the final, thrilling installment of the Red Sparrow Trilogy, Russian counterintelligence chief Dominika Egorova and her lover, CIA agent Nate Nash, must find a Russian agent about to be appointed to a very high office in the US government.\"-- From the publisher.
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Dragonfly : a novel
At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer--all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of his or her own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly. Thus begins a dramatic cat-and-mouse game, as the group seeks to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. But...is everything as it seems, or is this one more elaborate act of spycraft?
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Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101
The Reading List, as the new list will be called, honors the single best title in eight genre categories: romance, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, women's fiction, and the adrenaline genre group consisting of thriller, suspense, and adventure. Graced with sparkling dialogue; intelligent, well-turned phrases; a glittering, though highly restrictive, social backdrop; and a preoccupation with the importance of social consequence and behavior, these chaste, refined comedies of manners have captured the imaginations of writers and readers alike; while few now are being published, they still have a small but militantly devoted fan base.
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