Political Dimension of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Pavel Alexandrovich Sharikov

Pavel Alexandrovich Sharikov Lomonosov Moscow State University

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cyberspace, military forces, political sphere

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies have so many different applications that no definition or categorization would be comprehensive. Traditionally business is the driving force for developing new technologies. Some recent developments in information technologies (IT), such as big data, the growth of computational capacity, the speed of information sharing and global digitalization of society, made the amount of information communicated in the world immense.

Political use of AI as a tool of foreign policy in the times of increasing international turbulence may be categorized into two major trends – military and political. Military mostly refers to infrastructural developments, while political is related to cognitive, “human” dimension of artificial intelligence technologies.

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Author Biography

Pavel Alexandrovich Sharikov, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD., Senior research fellow, Institute for USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Associate professor, School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

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