Artificial Intelligence and Its Contexts

Anna Visvizi, Ph.D., (dr. hab.), is economist and political scientist, working as researcher, editor, lecturer and consultant. She has extensive experience in academia, think tanks, and government sectors in Europe and the USA. The author of several published works, she presented her work across Europe and the USA, including Capitol Hill. A practiced team-worker, researcher, analyst, and lecturer, her expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics, and ICT. This translates into her research and advisory roles in the area of AI and geopolitics, smart cities and smart villages, knowledge and innovation management, and technology diffusion, especially with regard to the EU and BRI. In her work, she places emphasis on engaging academia, the think tank sector, and decision-makers in dialogue to ensure well-founded and evidence-driven policy-making. She is Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Visiting Scholar at Effat University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Marek Bodziany, Ph.D., is Associate Professor (dr. hab.), Colonel of the Polish Armed Forces, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Security Sciences at The General Kosciuszko Military University of Land Forces (AWL), and Editor-in-Chief: AWL Publishing House.  Her research areas include multiculturalism, culture sociology, ethnic and cultural conflicts, wars and social crises, methodology, social differences, migration, and social change.

1. Artificial intelligence and its context: issues, domains, applications.- 2. Demystifying artificial intelligence: by means of introduction.- 3. Ethical conditions of the use of artificial intelligence in the modern battlefield - towards the "modern" culture of killing.- 4. Cyberspace, artificial intelligence, and the future of proxy warfare.- 5. Mapping AI in the field of Strategic Studies.- 6. AI-supported Decision Making Process aids in multidomain operations.- 7. AI in Management and Business Administration. Discussions and Research Studies.- 8. Leadership 4.0 - using technology to amplify leadership development.- 9. Strategic communication as a guarantor of communication coherence in the armed forces.- 10. Blockchain: capital market leapfrogging and apt financing allocation in the Global South.- 11. The case for European Digital Sovereignty: Building Europe's technological independence in times of geopolitical rivalry.- 12. ePortugal: Artificial Intelligence, Politics and State Modernization.- 13. Developing a Saudi Artificial Intelligence Initiative Based on Vision 2030.- 14. The United States of America's Embrace of Artificial Intelligence in Pursuit of National Security.- 15. Assessing the Ecosystem of Innovation in GCC: Policy Implications and Strategic Directions.