Author(s):
Christiana Freitas
Universidade de Brasília
freitas.christiana@gmail.com
Resumen/Abstract:
This article focuses on understanding governmental initiatives that use artificial intelligence3 (AI) systems and instruments in the field of public security in Brazil. Such initiatives are conceived here as instruments of public action[1] that operate through mechanisms characteristic of what Foucault designated as biopower (FOUCAULT, 2004). Biopower transcends the control of bodies in disciplinary institutions: it is the power that subtly controls the population through technical instruments such as governmental programs and policies aimed at solving public problems in various sectors. This form of power organizes rational mechanisms, relationships, practices, and concrete techniques of adequacy and framing of individuals without the need for physical coercion. For this purpose, technical instruments of public action that enable and reproduce biopower are used. In this sense, algorithmic systems, including machine learning algorithms, bring new political and technical dimensions to this form of power. Public action is conceived as a “sociopolitical space constructed by both techniques and instruments as well as by objectives, contents, and actor projects. The notion of the public action instrument (IAP) allows us to move beyond functionalist approaches that focus primarily on the objectives of public policies by considering public action from the perspective of the instruments that structure their programs. It is, in some way, a work of deconstruction through instruments” (LASCOUMES; LE GALES, 2012, p. 21).
Panel GT: 2024-08 Inovações democráticas e suas implicações para a governança contemporânea
Status: Accepted-Aceptado
Modalidad: Ponencia Presencial(Madrid)