Abstract
The increasing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in many areas of politically relevant decision-making leads to new questions regarding the role of norms. Existing norm research offers important, diversified concepts, particularly on the emergence, impact and change of norms in the public-discursive space. However, the perspective on operational practices beyond the public space has so far hardly been comprehended theoretically. In the context of analysing military applications of AI, this contribution argues, first, that practices of developing and using AI technologies carried out by various actors beyond the public sphere are important and currently under-theorized sources of normativity. Secondly, it emphasises the interplay between normativity, i.e. ideas about moral duties and justice, and normality, i.e. ideas about the typical and average, in the emergence and development of norms. The theoretical reflection in this contribution offers IR norm research a broader analytical view of the constitution of normative space.
Translated title of the contribution | Technological Challenges: Artifical Intelligence, Normativity, Normality, and Practices beyond the Public Space |
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Original language | German |
Journal | Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 2 |
Pages (from-to) | 124-134 |
ISSN | 0946-7165 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- Norms
- Normativity
- normality
- Practices
- AI