ESEP prepress abstract   -  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00216

ABSTRACT: Artificial intelligence, while presenting itself as a novelty in the fields of education, science and the business industry, is likely being used as a hegemonic tool for economic and political control. Concerns in privacy ethics, class divides and the specter of AI incited biowarfare controlled by supremacist-minded entities that benefit from the datafication of individuals for economic profit and the attainment of politicized, control seeking objectives are the axial arguments of this position paper. As a result, this review makes a case for AI used as a tool of hegemony through presenting an analytical framework derived from the “less mainstream” variegated existing corpus of literature between 1984 and 2024. Furthermore, while the literature equally reveals attempts to monitor misuse of AI, to date, there have been no solutions offered as concerns privacy and surveillance, alternatives to the potential loss of jobs through automated AI nor the menace of AI operated biological warfare already being tested in war-torn parts of the world. Resolving the existing hegemonic challenges is of paramount importance and must be properly addressed in order not to be met with an existential crisis threatening the continuity of humanity.