Artificial public space: Using AI to reframe the political discourse

Abstract

The article is devoted to an analysis of the AI’s influence on the political discourse. Artificial intelligence technologies are used not only for intelligence and new types of weapons, but also for interference in the politics of states. Such interference is carried out to reformat the existing public discourse that supports social order and create an artificial discourse dominated by generated narratives and political themes. The article examines the hypothesis that, in the context of secularization, the problem of the relationship between politics and religion is one of the significant topics of discussion within political philosophy. The growing influence of artificial intelligence on politics can be seen as one of the consequences of secularization and religion’s loss of its ability to shape political discourse. The authors intend to explore the mechanisms and cases of such reformatting of public discourse using AI to demonstrate an essential aspect of the application of artificial intelligence in politics to establish dominance or distort the meanings that support the order of a particular society. Contemporary politics is shaped by digital communication, which has radically changed the concept of publicity, participation in political discourse, and its structure. The networked communication landscape of digital platforms has replaced the unified, hierarchically organized media space of industrial society. In this new political reality, artificial intelligence technologies are attracting increased interest from states, which are increasingly focusing on their strategic potential and viewing them as a factor in the radical shift of the present that will determine the contours of the future. The prospects for their application cover all areas of state functioning, from the economy to culture, from security to education. The authors also present examples of using AI to gain political influence as a strategy of informational war and propaganda.