RPA Artifical Intelligence & Politics

As artificial intelligence (AI) diffuses through our lives, it reconfigures central aspects of politics and society as we know it. It affects political deliberation as well as how and to whom public services are delivered. It also transforms political issues into technical problems to be solved through private means, thus replacing democratic institutions with private interests. Fuelled by rapidly expanding automated data collection, AI is a potent tool in the hands of the powerful, not least to maintain political order and to vie for and reproduce control, while also opening novel avenues for resistance.

The Artificial Intelligence & Politics RPA will combine research at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences into the interaction between AI and politics (in broad terms) with research into the social consequences of this interaction. The guiding question for this line of research is: how is AI changing contemporary politics, and how is the development and application of AI affected by political dynamics?

This RPA embraces a broad definition of politics, spanning both formal and informal dynamics through which societal challenges and conflicts are processed in a variety of contexts. The RPA focuses on four dimensions in which AI challenges traditional political dynamics:

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