Introduction: Understanding the Politics of Artificial Intelligence

Pascal D. Koenig ()

Chapter 1 in Understanding the Politics of Artificial Intelligence, 2025, pp 1-8 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This introductory chapter provides an overview that illustrates the need to treat the politics of AI as a multi-faceted phenomenon. It distinguishes between two broad ways of defining politics: a narrow domain-specific one and one that sees politics as a general aspect of social relations. It also points to how politics can differ in the degree to which it is overt or instead remains hidden or latent. Showing how AI, its development, design, uses, and impacts, can fall under these different notions of politics, the chapter offers various examples of the forms that the politics of AI can take. It also describes to what extent the politics of AI is similar to or different from the politics surrounding other technologies and to what extent AI and the politics of AI are truly novel. The chapter concludes with an outline of the book and provides a synopsis of each of the subsequent chapters.

Keywords: Definitions of politics; Politics of technology; Risk; Policymaking; Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035348015
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