AI-CRACY: Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Sovereignty
Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a technological revolution. This book argues that its most significant consequences are political.
AI-CRACY introduces a conceptual framework for understanding how artificial intelligence restructures the architecture of sovereignty. Rather than focusing on speculative scenarios of superintelligence or technological singularity, the book analyzes the concrete transformation already underway: the growing mediation of governance through algorithmic infrastructures that shape knowledge, decision-making, and social coordination.
Building on debates in political theory, sociology of knowledge, and digital political economy, AI-CRACY examines how artificial intelligence reorganizes three fundamental dimensions of modern societies:
• the epistemic order, through the datafication of reality and the production of artificial ignorance;
• the political–economic structure, through cyber-capitalism, digital extractivism, and platform monopolies;
• the geopolitical order, through digital empires, techno-feudal dependencies, and competition for infrastructural sovereignty.
In this emerging configuration, power increasingly migrates toward those who control computational infrastructures, data ecosystems, and algorithmic protocols. Governance becomes less a matter of visible command than of infrastructural design.
The concept of AI-CRACY therefore describes not a specific regime type but a structural condition affecting both democratic and authoritarian systems. Artificial intelligence amplifies existing political logics: it can deepen technocratic concentration of power, or it can become subject to democratic contestation.
The central question is not whether artificial intelligence will transform society — it already is. The question is whether the infrastructures through which AI operates will remain politically governable.
By bringing together the sociology of ignorance, political theory, and the geopolitics of digital infrastructures, AI-CRACY proposes a new analytical lens for understanding the political future of artificial intelligence.
How to Read This Book
This book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the political implications of artificial intelligence. Rather than offering a technological manual or a speculative account of future machines, it examines how the growing integration of algorithmic systems into economic, political, and epistemic infrastructures is transforming the conditions under which power is exercised in contemporary societies.
The argument unfolds across three interconnected levels.
First, the book analyzes the epistemic transformation associated with artificial intelligence: the datafication of reality, the growing reliance on predictive optimization, and the emergence of what is described here as artificial ignorance — the structured distribution of what remains unknown or opaque within algorithmic systems.
Second, it examines the political–economic reconfiguration produced by digital infrastructures. Platform monopolies, cognitive extraction, and automated markets are interpreted as elements of a broader transformation of capitalism, in which control over data and computation becomes a central source of power.
Third, the analysis expands to the geopolitical dimension of artificial intelligence. The competition for digital sovereignty, semiconductor supply chains, and technological standards is reshaping international relations and giving rise to new forms of digital empire and techno-feudal dependency.
These three layers converge in what the book conceptualizes as AI-CRACY: a structural condition in which governance becomes increasingly mediated by algorithmic infrastructures that shape knowledge, decision-making, and social coordination.
The chapters can be read sequentially, but they are also organized as analytical lenses that approach the same transformation from different perspectives — epistemic, economic, political, and philosophical.
The aim is not to predict the future of artificial intelligence, but to clarify the political questions that its expansion inevitably raises: who governs the infrastructures of intelligence, under what institutional conditions, and toward what collective ends.
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