International Relations And Problematics of Artificial Intelligence And Biotechnology Revolution

 

Dr. Salam Al Rabadi

       If the Russian-Ukrainian war was the most important event that dominated the year 2022, but perhaps the decisive role of relying on artificial intelligence weapons in this war will raise many future problematic related to the reality of international relations and the future of humanity. It goes without saying that artificial intelligence and the biotechnological revolution will have very serious radical political and ethical impacts in all economic, security, legal, cultural and environmental sectors, not to mention concerns about the ability to manipulate human nature.  These issues inevitably raise many strategic problematics at the international relations level, wich can be expressed by asking the following questions:

 1-  What are the ethical strategies that AI algorithms and the biotech revolution are supposed to stick to? How concerned is the possibility that the weapons of mathematics could be used to achieve dirty political ends? 

2-  To what extent can proactive laws be put in place that are capable of limiting and confronting these repercussions? Why this global slowdown in setting strict standards for controlling these developments? Does that future reality require the creation of a global moral constitution along the lines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? 

3-  Is there a political vision at the level of international relations capable of approaching these strategic challenges?

 We must acknowledge the fact that the challenges of artificial intelligence and the biotechnological revolution, with their political, cultural, and security implications, are rarely studied strategically. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to reconsider this reality according to a critical approach based on an ethical, cultural, political and security vision, which can be framed based on the following problematic:

    1-         Problematic of cyber security and space wars.

2-          Problematic of algorithmic bias and societal security.

3-            Problematic of criteria for the concept of algorithmic justice and cultural dilemmas.

4-            Problematic of emotional computing and the automation of human nature.

5-            Problematic of technical solutions (modelling) for climate change.

6-            Problematic of geological wars and future climate engineering (climate weapons).

7-            Problematic of the ethical and political of biotechnology (Biotechnical Revolution).

8-            Problematic of governance, accountability and control related to technology.

9-            Problematic of the aura of objectivity that today's culture confers on algorithms and science. 

       According to those problematics international relations will face many dialectics related to how technologies change the reality of politics, society, and even human nature. So, in the future all political debates will focus on the problematic relationship between politics and science. It is the relationship that can be expressed through the following question: 

To what extent should societies be directed and controlled by artificial intelligence and the biotech revolution? And on what terms?

         In this context, despite the complexities that will face the problematic of the relationship between science and politics, but the dialectic of the impact of science on human nature will remain the most problematic issue. Accordingly, the question is: 

What if normal biological human evolution was no longer absolutely necessary? 

       Inevitably, there are many question marks regarding the fears and doubts surrounding developments of artificial intelligence,robots and biotechnologies. Where it seems that there is no longer anything biological link between these developments. So, one of the future issues that will arise in the field of humanities is the problematic of the nature of the human relationship with artificial intelligence and the possibility of its superiority over it, not to mention the many dialectics between humanities, biologists and neuroscientists. This reality will lead to several questions in international relations about technological determinism: 

1-       Are there new patterns of selection since robots and biological behaviors control the fate of humanity more than genes?

2-       How can these patterns be approached theoretically and practically at the political level?

3-       What are the cultural and ethical values that artificial intelligence and the biotechnical revolution are supposed to adhere to? Who will decide that? 

         Based on these future questions,  with scientific considerations intertwined with commercial interests, it became necessary on a political and moral level for states to intervene, as there are a number of unethical technologies that have been put under political scrutiny on a global level The experience of trying to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction or placing strict controls on human cloning experiments may be the best proof of the possibility of control.

         This requires adopting a modern vision that is concerned with establishing clear and unambiguous laws and treaties with regard to confronting these problematics, especially at the level of international criminal law. For example, the Statute of the International Criminal Court must be amended to suit these risks and challenges as a kind of proactive global security, so that the jurisdiction of the court is expanded to include future crimes that threaten the fate of humanity and related to the following issues: 

-      The biotech revolution.

-      Climate change.

-      Artificial intelligence and emotional computing.

      It is evident by tracing the context of the development of international relations and international criminal law at the theoretical and practical levels, that they do not keep pace with these new global patterns. So, with the existence of loose and vague political concepts, the need arises to adopt the principle of bearing criminal responsibility explicitly and deterrent in light of the provocative uncertainty associated with technology.  

         Therefore, there are real and realistic question marks and doubts about whether the natural biological development of humans is no longer necessary at all, as a result of the developments of artificial intelligence and the biotechnical revolution. Hence, the fact that the problematic of the issue of the contradiction between the futures of artificial intelligence and the biotechnical revolution with human nature will inevitably impose itself on the political and ethical arena. Here, the following problematics should be raised:

 

1-       Is there an urgent political need to know what are the natural biological conditions for human existence?

2-       Does the reality of technology problematic require research into the nature of politics or the politics of nature?

         In sum, in the coming few years, pattern of technological transformations related to Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Biotechnology, and the Internet of Things are likely to have a significant impact on the balance of power in global politics, which will increase the adoption of policies to nationalize technological innovations as strategic areas and an integral part of the biological, national, and cyber security of states. So, this pattern requires, at the level of international relations, to ask the following question:

 Do we have to know the culture and ideas of scientists in artificial intelligence and biomedicine, before studying political leaders, in order to understand the strategic reality of global politics, international relations and the future of humanity?