Threats and Opportunities of Technocracy in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.23.2026.102.15Keywords:
technocracy, technocratic mentality, artificial intelligence (AI), seeking behaviorAbstract
This article focuses on the threats and opportunities of technocracy in the context of present-day technological development. In the first section, the concept of technocracy is defined, followed by a discussion of the history and changing characteristics of the technocratic movement, mainly in the US. The second section is devoted to analyzing the negative impact that technocracy can have on democratic systems, human values, and morality. This section discusses threats such as the deepening of social divisions, non-democratic tendencies, the self-reification of humans, and the lack of alignment between human and algorithmic values. The remainder of the article discusses the positive impact of the technocratic mindset on democratic systems. It is exemplified by methods of integrating expert knowledge into democratic processes and the ‘technocratic style’ of policymaking.
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