Artificial intelligence (AI) affects multiple dimensions of international cultural relations. Amidst increasing geopolitical competition and a global search for new AI governance frameworks, international cultural relations affect AI development and vice versa. How does AI impact cultural sectors? How can institutions and actors engaged in international cultural relations ensure ethical and responsible technology use, as well as mitigate imbalances accentuated by AI systems? What does a strategy for work in the field of international cultural relations in the AI era look like?
This study forms part of ifa’s Research Programme ‘Culture and Foreign Policy’, in which experts address relevant issues relating to culture and foreign policy with the aim of involving academics, practitioners, policymakers and the civil society. It is about time to raise awareness and discuss, to construct knowledge landscapes and informed publics. International cultural relations will have to skilfully integrate this technology in its practices just as much as it will need to use its competences to safeguard democracy and human rights in this fast-evolving technopolitical complex.
