Publications — Ziyaad Bhorat

Politics, Policy, and Technology

My research and policy work is important to a broader agenda that seeks to understand the ways in which automated technologies like AI intersect – threatening and/or entrenching – forms of political governance and social formation. I have argued for the importance of turning to the classical roots of both contemporary technology studies and political thought, challenging substantively thin conceptions that neglect broader social and political influences across a longer historical timeframes.

I have moreover published in both academic and general audience sources:

ACADEMIC:

Ziyaad Bhorat, “Disautomated Realities in South Africa: Loadshedding, Poultry Dealth, and the Promises of Failure”, International Journal of Communication, 18: 2024, 748-754.

Ziyaad Bhorat, “Digital Despotism and Aristotle on the Despotic Master-Slave Relation”, Philosophy & Technology, 36, no. 77: 2023, 1-22.

Ziyaad Bhorat, “Automation, Slavery, and Work in Aristotle’s Politics Book I”, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 32, no. 2: 2022, 279–302.

Ziyaad Bhorat, “Automata in Hobbes: Three Heads of Cerberus”, History of Political Thought, 42, no. 3: 2021, 441–463

GENERAL AUDIENCE:

“Automation Anxiety and a Right to Freedom from Automated Systems and AI”, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, October 2023

“The Right to be Free From Automation”, Noēma Magazine, March 2023

“How to Democratize Automation”, Brookings Institute, May 2022

“The Cowardice of Today’s Liberalism”, Noēma Magazine, September 2020

“Do we Still Need Human Judges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?”, openDemocracy, August 2017