AI and Ideology: The Political Transformations of Tomorrow

Program

9:00 – 9:15pm | Welcome and opening remarks

Marlène Laruelle, Chair of Illiberalism at Inalco and Luiss Guido Carli University

9:15 – 11:00am | Panel 1 - AI Between Digital Illiberalism and Authoritarianism

Chair: Jasmin Dall’Agnola, University of Zurich

• Digital Surveillance Beyond Borders: On Frontex, Artificial Intelligence, and the Limits of Privacy Politics
  Elizabeth Calhoun, Maynooth University
• Containing Superintelligence? AI Safety and the Shadows of Cold War Liberalism 
  Apolline Taillandier, University of Cambridge
• Digital Morality and Dissent: Reframing AI through Feminist Resistance 
  Diana-Nicoleta Mirancea, University of Bucharest
• Identifying the Transnational Circulation of Neoreactionary Discourses 
  Tristan Boursier, Université du Québec à Montréal; Arnaud Miranda, CEVIPOF Sciences Po; and Antoine Lemor, Université de Sherbrooke

11:00 – 11:15am | Coffee break 

11:15 – 1:00pm | Panel 2 - Ideologie(s) embedded in AI 

Chair: Valentin Goujon, Sciences Po

• Silicon Valley's Suburban Landscape: Material Infrastructures and Ideological Attachments 
  Michelle Venetucci, Yale University
• The Paranoid Style in Artificial Intelligence: Rational Paranoia as Epistemic Ideal 
  Anthony Burton, University of Amsterdam
• Algorithmic Illiberalism: How A.I. Bias Amplifies Ideological Power 
  Pat Rzepczynski, Jagiellonian University and Kevin Cooper, Northeastern University
• Liberal Machines: LLM Bias and Differential Regime Fit 
  Alec Crisman, McGill University 

1:00 – 2:00pm | Lunch break

2:00 – 3:45pm | Panel 3 - Political theory of AI

Chair: Raphaël Demias-Morisset, George Washington University

• Efficiency without Politics: AI’s Ideology and the Evolution towards an “Optimization Contract”
  Adrien Tallent, Sorbonne Université
• Is AI the Anti-Christ?
  Josh Vandiver, University of Colorado
• The Ideological Spiral of Technological Salvation 
  Yaelle Amsallem, ESCP Business School
• Digital Necromancy, Neotraditional Futurism, Technological Autarky: Three Visions of AI in Russia 
  Dima Kortukov, University of Alabama

3:45 – 4:00pm | Coffee break

4:00 – 5:30pm | Roundtable – (Digital) capitalism and the (Far) Right: Illiberalism, libertarianism, and fascism in Silicon Valley

 Chair: Marlène Laruelle, Luiss Guido Carli University

Sylvie Laurent, Sciences Po, Jasmin Dall’Agnola, University of Zurich, Valentin Goujon, Sciences Po, Raphaël Demias-Morisset, George Washington University