AI and/as Racialised Political Theology
AI and/as Racialised Political Theology
Author(s): Syed Mustafa AliSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Economy, Political Theory, Theology and Religion, Politics and religion, Politics and society, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: artificial intelligence; political theology; racism; critical race theory; decolonial thought
Summary/Abstract: Building on earlier work engaging with the entanglement of artificial intelligence (AI) and apocalypticism and both with whiteness (Ali 2019), in the present essay I explore AI through the lens of a political theology informed by critical race theory and decolonial thought. The essay begins by setting out the meaning of a few key concepts, viz. AI, political theology, ‘The World’, and the apocalyptic, before going on to consider their relationship, and concludes by briefly sketching an oppositional stance that I suggest is appropriate to adopt in relation to AI where the latter is understood as a manifestation of racialised political theology.
Journal: Filozofija i društvo
- Issue Year: 35/2024
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 645-666
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
