Analytical state: Artificial intelligence and algorithms for state power
- Bihar Journal of Public Administration
- 19(2), Jul-Dec, 2022: p.126-138
The onset of AI in social realms raises a basic question. Do we need to affix artificial intelligence capability to the state power as much as we attach this to entities from automobiles and banking sector to manufacturing and health care systems? Drawing insights from existing literature in the field of AI applications, from governance and securities to predictive policing, legal analytics and warfare, this paper argues that once the AI technology attains a public nature, big enough to confront with interest of public realm over which state has monopoly; state power takes over the realm and brings it under its command. The moment private technique comes to the domain of masses; the state takes control of it. Any scientific knowledge, or technological sophistication, that private individuals develop, the field soon succumbs to the state’s power if it gains mass character. So the current preoccupations of weakening of state power or end of nationstate due to the increasing AI capability in the private sphere is a historical and untenable. State power is ever stronger with AI, and the state is becoming a huge technological organism. – Reproduced
State power, Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Prediction, Nation state.