ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the increasing scholastic discourse regarding the non-technological impact of AI on society, including the ethical, social and legal implications on current affairs in the international community. It carries out a critical analysis of current AI and big data affairs in the international arena including Facebook’s and Twitter’s Fake News Scandals and their aligned government responses, Amazon’s use of a secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women, mass surveillance systems enacted by governments like the Chinese Social Credit and AI-based monitoring systems during the Coronavirus Pandemic and more. A. Hagerty and I. Rubinov highlight the importance of regional and cultural differences on AI impact and posit that AI understanding is designed by local cultural and social settings. AI aggravates widespread surveillance in the US, China and other state actors and fosters its alarming automation, as seen in social media tracking, facial recognition, affect recognition and sensor networks.
