‘Artificial Intelligence’ and the Production of Knowledge and Expertise in International Relations

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Abstract This chapter examines the potentially transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in how we understand and analyse expertise and knowledge in International Relations (IR) in three steps. First, the authors review how IR theories have studied expertise as both an exogenous attribute that influences policymaking and as an endogenous factor via the construction of expertise. In alignment with IR’s more recent engagement with techno-political systems, they find that existing approaches to expertise and knowledge need to be rethought. Second, the authors argue that emerging processes of AI regulation often privilege a particular type of technical-corporate expertise. Third, they argue that IR theory needs to be more attentive to ‘knowledge’ produced by AI and the political implications of the transformation triggered by the spreading societal application of AI technologies.

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