CFP: Call for Papers AI and Sovereignty

Call for Papers
AI and Sovereignty
Artificial intelligence is transforming the conditions through which power is exercised, distributed, and legitimized. The development and deployment of AI systems involve not only technological questions, but also fundamental issues concerning authority, autonomy, control, and sovereignty.

If power is not merely exercised but also produces apparatuses, practices, and subjects, it is necessary to ask how artificial intelligence participates in this production and what new forms of subjectivity, authority, and dependence it makes possible. AI is not merely a tool through which power is exercised: it may contribute to redefining the very conditions under which subjects and institutions act, make decisions, and recognize themselves as autonomous.

Who exercises power when the infrastructures required for the development of AI are controlled by private actors and operate across national borders? In what sense can a state be considered technologically sovereign if it depends on infrastructures, semiconductors, data, or models developed elsewhere? And how does the notion of individual autonomy change when decisions and judgments are increasingly mediated or delegated to algorithmic systems?

This issue of Exetasis, an independent philosophy journal, aims to explore the relationship between AI and sovereignty, examining both the transformations of existing forms of sovereignty and the possibility that artificial intelligence may require a revision of the very concept of sovereignty.

Contributions addressing, among others, the following topics are particularly welcome:

1. Political Sovereignty and AI Infrastructures
AI and state sovereignty;

technological sovereignty and infrastructural dependence;

control over data, computational capacity, and AI models;

relations between states and major technology companies;

digital infrastructures and the distribution of power;

the concept of “AI sovereignty” and its philosophical implications.

2. AI, Authority, and Decision-Making
the delegation of decision-making power to artificial systems;

AI and political authority;

responsibility and accountability for algorithmic decisions;

the use of AI in public administration, the judiciary, and political institutions;

the relationship between human and automated decision-making;

the legitimacy of exercising power through AI systems.

3. AI, Autonomy, and Individual Sovereignty
AI and personal autonomy;

predictive systems, recommendation, and manipulation;

AI and self-determination;

surveillance, personal data, and behavioral control;

AI and epistemic autonomy;

the relationship between human agency and artificial systems;

the algorithmic production of subjectivity.

4. Rethinking Sovereignty in the Age of AI
genealogies and philosophical theories of sovereignty and their application to AI;

sovereignty, power, and algorithmic control;

distributed or transnational sovereignty;

the possibilities and limits of the concept of “machine sovereignty”;

AI and the transformation of the relationship between power, autonomy, and control;

the production of subjects and apparatuses through AI;

the possible need for new political concepts to understand power in the age of artificial intelligence.

The list of topics is not exhaustive. Contributions from political philosophy, philosophy of technology, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of law, and social and political theory are encouraged.

Abstract Submission
Authors are invited to submit an abstract of 300–500 words, accompanied by a brief biographical profile and institutional affiliation.

Abstracts should clearly present the philosophical question or problem addressed, the main argument, and, where appropriate, the relevant theoretical framework.

Deadline for abstract submissions: December 20, 2026.

Abstracts should be sent to the Exetasis editorial board at:

[email protected]

Please indicate the following in the subject line of the email: CFP — AI and Sovereignty.

Selected abstracts will subsequently be invited to submit a full paper of approximately 8,000 words. Full submissions will undergo the editorial evaluation process established by Exetasis.


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