Artificial intelligence and the public arena

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Communication Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-19 DOI:10.1093/ct/qtad006

Andreas Jungherr, Ralph Schroeder

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The public arena relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to ever greater degrees. Media structures hosting the public arena—such as Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube—increasingly rely on AI-enabled applications to shape information environments, autonomously generate content, and communicate with people. These applications affect the public arena’s functions: make society visible to itself and provide spaces for the formation of publics and counterpublics. We offer a framework that allows for the conceptualization and empirical examination of AI’s structural impact on the public arena. Based on this perspective, we argue that the growing uses of AI will lead to a strengthening of intermediary structures that can exercise a greater degree of control over the public arena. In addition, the data-driven nature of most AI-applications threatens to push challenges to the political status quo out of sight and obstruct the assessability of AI-enabled interventions.

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人工智能与公共领域

公共领域越来越依赖人工智能(AI)。承载公共领域的媒体结构，如Facebook、TikTok、Twitter和youtube，越来越依赖于支持人工智能的应用程序来塑造信息环境，自主生成内容，并与人交流。这些应用影响了公共舞台的功能:使社会自身可见，并为公众和反公众的形成提供空间。我们提供了一个框架，允许概念化和实证研究人工智能对公共领域的结构性影响。基于这一观点，我们认为人工智能的日益使用将导致中介结构的加强，从而可以对公共领域行使更大程度的控制。此外，大多数人工智能应用的数据驱动性质有可能将政治现状的挑战推到视线之外，并阻碍人工智能干预措施的可评估性。

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Communication Theory COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

2.70%

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