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Artificial Intelligence and Authoritarian Resilience
Research Guide
What is Artificial Intelligence and Authoritarian Resilience?
Artificial Intelligence and Authoritarian Resilience examines how AI surveillance and control technologies strengthen non-democratic regimes against internal and external challenges.
This subtopic analyzes AI's role in enhancing regime stability through tools like predictive policing and social credit systems, primarily in powers like China and Russia. Key works include Laptev (2023) on AI as a stabilization mechanism in political regimes (2 citations) and Bazarkina and Pashentsev (2020) on malicious AI risks to psychological security in BRICS nations (32 citations). Approximately 7 recent papers address these dynamics.
Why It Matters
AI bolsters authoritarian control by enabling mass surveillance, as Laptev (2023) details in Russia's and China's use of AI for power stabilization. Bazarkina and Pashentsev (2020) highlight threats to national security in BRICS from AI-driven psychological operations. Ryan and Burman (2024) link US-China tech decoupling to global shifts favoring resilient autocracies (19 citations), impacting democratic norms worldwide.
Key Research Challenges
AI-Driven Surveillance Ethics
Authoritarian regimes deploy AI for unchecked monitoring, raising human rights concerns. Bazarkina and Pashentsev (2020) identify risks to psychological security from malicious AI in China and Russia. Balancing security and privacy remains unresolved.
Geopolitical Tech Decoupling
US-China tech wars fragment AI supply chains, aiding authoritarian self-reliance. Ryan and Burman (2024) analyze Huawei's case as evidence of decoupling strategies. This accelerates AI weaponization by non-democracies.
Regime Stabilization Tools
AI integrates into political control systems, evading traditional democratization pressures. Laptev (2023) describes AI methods for power exercise in world powers. Measuring long-term resilience effects poses analytical hurdles.
Essential Papers
Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
Darya Bazarkina, Evgeny Pashentsev · 2020 · Russia in Global Affairs · 32 citations
The article identifies the main risks and threats related to national and international psychological security (PS) in BRICS countries (particularly China, India, and Russia) and posed by the malic...
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Leadership in Global Processes: from Platforms to Markets?
И. В. Данилин · 2020 · MGIMO Review of International Relations · 21 citations
Discussions on the impact of digital technologies on national and global processes are rising. Among important issues is the role of large Internet platforms (Facebook, Google, Alibaba, etc.) - key...
The <scp>United States–China</scp> ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei
Maria Ryan, Stephen Burman · 2024 · Global Policy · 19 citations
Abstract This paper offers an analysis of US strategy in the unfolding United States–China ‘tech war’ and its consequences. We argue that a tech war is now underway, and that Washington is the driv...
The Artificial Intelligence in the System of Tools for Stabilizing the Political Regimes of World Powers
Vasiliy A. Laptev · 2023 · RUDN Journal of Political Science · 2 citations
A stable idea in the doctrine of the typologies of a political regime indicates that their uniqueness is characterized by a set of appropriate methods and means of exercising political power, a sys...
The Role of the EU in the Management of the Covid-19 Crisis
Svetlana Cebotari, Victoria Bevziuc · 2021 · Analele Universității din Oradea Seria Relații Internaționale și Studii Europene · 0 citations
Although the European Union's actions on the management of the Covid-19 crisis have been harshly criticized by the lack of dedicated mechanisms to protect the health of European citizens, an analys...
The Elements of the China Challenge: Reading the Trump Administration’s China Policy Testament
Bartosz Kowalski · 2021 · Politeja · 0 citations
Between 2017 and 2021 Donald Trump’s administration published over a dozen strategic documents on China among which The Elements of the China Challenge seems to stand out as it outlines a longer pe...
International Positioning
Haroon Sheikh, J.E.J. Prins, Erik Schrijvers · 2023 · Research for policy · 0 citations
Abstract The final overarching task we have identified concerns a country’s international positioning in the field of AI. This task is slightly different from the previous four because it plays out...
Reading Guide
Foundational Papers
No pre-2015 papers available; start with Bazarkina and Pashentsev (2020) for core malicious AI risks in authoritarians.
Recent Advances
Prioritize Ryan and Burman (2024) for tech decoupling, Laptev (2023) for stabilization tools, and Daniлин (2020) for digital leadership shifts.
Core Methods
Doctrinal analysis of regime tools (Laptev, 2023), psychological security risk assessment (Bazarkina and Pashentsev, 2020), and geopolitical decoupling studies (Ryan and Burman, 2024).
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PapersFlow's Research Agent uses searchPapers and exaSearch to query 'AI surveillance authoritarian regimes,' retrieving Bazarkina and Pashentsev (2020) amid 250M+ OpenAlex papers. citationGraph reveals connections to Laptev (2023), while findSimilarPapers uncovers related BRICS risks.
Analyze & Verify
Analysis Agent employs readPaperContent on Ryan and Burman (2024) to extract Huawei decoupling details, then verifyResponse with CoVe checks claims against sources. runPythonAnalysis with pandas quantifies citation trends across 7 papers; GRADE assigns evidence levels to Laptev (2023) stabilization claims.
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Synthesis Agent detects gaps in EU responses to authoritarian AI (Cebotari and Bevziuc, 2021) versus China cases, flagging contradictions. Writing Agent uses latexEditText, latexSyncCitations for Laptev (2023), and latexCompile for reports; exportMermaid diagrams US-China tech flows.
Use Cases
"Analyze AI's role in Russian regime stability post-2020"
Research Agent → searchPapers('AI political stabilization Russia') → citationGraph on Laptev (2023) → Analysis Agent → runPythonAnalysis (citation trends) → structured report on resilience metrics.
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Synthesis Agent → gap detection (Ryan and Burman, 2024) → Writing Agent → latexEditText + latexSyncCitations + latexCompile → LaTeX PDF with cited tech war analysis.
"Find code for AI surveillance models in authoritarian papers"
Research Agent → paperExtractUrls (Bazarkina 2020) → Code Discovery → paperFindGithubRepo → githubRepoInspect → Python sandbox verification of monitoring scripts.
Automated Workflows
Deep Research workflow scans 50+ papers via searchPapers on 'AI authoritarian control,' producing structured reviews chaining to DeepScan's 7-step verification on Laptev (2023). Theorizer generates theories on AI-regime evolution from Daniлин (2020) digital platforms, using CoVe for validation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What defines Artificial Intelligence and Authoritarian Resilience?
It studies AI technologies like surveillance enhancing non-democratic regime stability, as in Laptev (2023). Focuses on China, Russia, and BRICS contexts.
What methods do papers use?
Papers apply doctrinal typology (Laptev, 2023) and risk analysis (Bazarkina and Pashentsev, 2020). Some examine tech decoupling (Ryan and Burman, 2024).
What are key papers?
Top cited: Bazarkina and Pashentsev (2020, 32 citations) on malicious AI; Ryan and Burman (2024, 19 citations) on US-China tech war; Laptev (2023, 2 citations) on regime tools.
What open problems exist?
Gaps include quantifying AI's long-term resilience impact and counter-strategies for democracies. Limited EU perspectives (Cebotari and Bevziuc, 2021) highlight coordination challenges.
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