AI & Power Politics | UPSC GS-2 IR | UPSCPDF
UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: How AI & economic coercion are reshaping power politics — weaponized interdependence, LAWS, AI ethics, strategic autonomy. Full UPSC GS-2/GS-3/Ethics guide with MCQs, Mains, Essay, Interview.
💡 Key Takeaways | 🏛️ Power & Ethics in International Relations — The Long Arc | 🔍 Core Concepts | ⚖️ Constitutional & Doctrinal Anchors (India) | 🌐 The Global AI & Technology Governance Architecture | 🇮🇳 India's Posture & Plurilateral Diplomacy | 📊 Marks Breakdown | 🧩 Key Dimensions | 📐 Additional Essay Angle Cards | 👥 Key Actors & Stakeholders | 🗂️ Quick Revision Tags | 🇮🇳 UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis
Technology, Economic Coercion & the Erosion of Ethical Guardrails — Analysing Weaponized Interdependence, Autonomous Weapons, AI Governance & India's Case for Normative Leadership A widely-discussed editorial argument holds that international power is being decisively reshaped by artificial intelligence and economic coercion. Instruments such as sanctions, control over supply chains and semiconductors, and dominance in AI are increasingly displacing persuasion, normative leadership and institutional restraint — producing a harder-edged, more transactional world order in which power risks being severed from moral purpose. The deeper concern is that as algorithms move into surveillance, cyber operations, autonomous weapons and target-selection, human judgment, empathy and accountability may be displaced by machine efficiency. The "moral guardrails" built after 1945 — liberal institutions, humanitarian law, and the example of figures like Gandhi and Mandela — are seen as e
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