Artificial intelligence, knowledge-power and subjectivity

Abstract

The article proposes reflecting on the impact that artificial intelligence technologies have on the configuration of contemporary subjectivities. It seeks to investigate the extent to which artificial intelligence devices, increasingly present in everyday life, establish patterns of operation to discipline subjects according to criteria of efficiency. The promise of a flawless world, promoted by the algorithmic management of various areas of life, has the effect of undermining what constitutes a truly human existence in favor of mere functioning, leading to a loss of autonomy and a blurring of spaces for debate about the common good.

To address this issue, we start from Foucault's conception of how power-knowledge relations shape subjects. Secondly, based on the analyses of Eric Sadin and Miguel Benasayag, we will examine the normative nature of artificial intelligence in its ability to establish correct behavior with a view to creating a flawless, efficient, optimally functioning world. Next, we explore the decline of politics and the capacity for judgment in the tendency to replace debate and conflict with algorithmic management of public affairs. Finally, in the face of this colonization of life, the article recovers philosophical criticism as a tool for resistance and the construction of spaces for emancipation.