Routledge Handbook of Critical Security Studies and Artificial Intelligence

This Handbook offers a comprehensive and critical account of what artificial intelligence is doing to global security, and to whom. This volume’s central claim is that Artificial intelligence (AI) not only changes how security is practised but actively produces insecurity, often selectively and unevenly, and in ways that reflect the interests of those who create and deploy it. Bringing together contributions from scholars across Critical Security Studies, Feminist Security Studies, Science and Technology Studies, postcolonial theory and political economy, the handbook’s chapters are divided into six thematic sections:I: AI, Power and the Production of InsecurityII: Knowing AI: Epistemics, Expertise and Emancipatory ResearchIII: AI, Militarisation and Armed ConflictIV: AI, Statecraft, Borders and Spatial ControlV: Gender, Bodies and Everyday (In)SecurityVI: Colonial Logics, Epistemic Justice and the Global SouthThe volume demonstrates that gender, colonialism and ecology are structural, not peripheral, dimensions of how AI generates insecurity worldwide, introducing concepts that offer scholars and policymakers sharper tools for analysing AI governance and its effects. Above all, it argues against technological fatalism, claiming that the choices being made about AI today are political choices, open to contestation and change. The book will be of great interest to students of security studies, defence studies, technology studies and International Relations.