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<p>AI-mediated environments increasingly reorganize violence, perception, and responsibility through networked digital relations in which action emerges without clearly localized actors. This paper examines how networked infrastructures and artificial intelligence transform the relationship between subjectivity, operational control, and accountability in contemporary societies. Rather than understanding digitally mediated violence as an isolated consequence of technological innovation, the paper argues that AI systems extend a longer historical transformation in which responsibility has become abstracted from individual action and redistributed across sociotechnical infrastructures. Drawing on cybernetics, systems theory, and contemporary philosophy of technology, the paper argues that digital platforms, recommendation systems, and probabilistic AI models now function as operational environments that shape attention, orientation, and social perception through amplification dynamics. Within such systems, violence no longer operates primarily through centralized command or ideological coherence, but through participation, amplification, and distributed coordination across digital platforms and users. The paper further argues that digital infrastructures destabilize modern assumptions about the autonomous responsible subject. As perception, communication, and decision-making become mediated through opaque computational infrastructures, responsibility becomes progressively fragmented across networks whose systemic effects exceed the intentions of individual participants. The paper proposes that the current technological order is characterized by distributed operational structures in which human beings interact through algorithmically mediated representations of social reality.</p>

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The distributed Leviathan: AI, networked violence, and the fragmentation of responsibility

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    2026年8月4日

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  • Per M. Gustavsson

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AI-mediated environments increasingly reorganize violence, perception, and responsibility through networked digital relations in which action emerges without clearly localized actors. This paper examines how networked infrastructures and artificial intelligence transform the relationship between subjectivity, operational control, and accountability in contemporary societies. Rather than understanding digitally mediated violence as an isolated consequence of technological innovation, the paper argues that AI systems extend a longer historical transformation in which responsibility has become abstracted from individual action and redistributed across sociotechnical infrastructures. Drawing on cybernetics, systems theory, and contemporary philosophy of technology, the paper argues that digital platforms, recommendation systems, and probabilistic AI models now function as operational environments that shape attention, orientation, and social perception through amplification dynamics. Within such systems, violence no longer operates primarily through centralized command or ideological coherence, but through participation, amplification, and distributed coordination across digital platforms and users. The paper further argues that digital infrastructures destabilize modern assumptions about the autonomous responsible subject. As perception, communication, and decision-making become mediated through opaque computational infrastructures, responsibility becomes progressively fragmented across networks whose systemic effects exceed the intentions of individual participants. The paper proposes that the current technological order is characterized by distributed operational structures in which human beings interact through algorithmically mediated representations of social reality.