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?
