Artificial intelligence is transforming politics across the globe, yet its development, governance and impacts remain profoundly unevenly distributed. While debates have often focused on regulation, innovation, and ethics, attention is being paid to questions of voice, representation, knowledge, and power. Whose experiences shape AI? Whose knowledge informs its development and governance? Which communities are rendered visible, and which remain marginalised?
This panel invites theoretical, empirical and interdisciplinary contributions examining AI from perspectives that foreground inequality, exclusion and political power. We particularly welcome work engaging with the Global South, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, feminist approaches, indigenous knowledge, race, labour, migration, environmental justice, disability, democratic participation and community-led governance. Papers may address politics at local, national or global levels and explore how AI both reproduces and challenges existing political and social inequalities.
By bringing together diverse perspectives, the panel aims to broaden contemporary debates on AI and politics while creating space for voices, experiences and forms of knowledge that have often been overlooked in mainstream discussions.
