20.500.12556/RUL-184240 Paradoxical impact of artificial intelligence on international relations in defence, cyber security and media dimensions Paradoksni vpliv umetne inteligence na mednarodne odnose na področju obrambe, kibernetske varnosti in medijev Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a key catalyst for transformation within the international system. AI offers both significant potential and serious risks, compelling nations to balance extraordinary opportunities with major challenges. The primary goal of this paper is to analyse and present how AI technologies and their paradoxical socio-technical nature are transforming international relations by accelerating global instability and security threats, and creating new vectors of power, vulnerability, and influence. The paper examines transformative impacts in three critical dimensions: defence, cyber-security, and media. In the defence dimension, we show that emerging autonomous systems across all domains will significantly enhance national warfare capabilities, but will also reinforce strategic competition among states, with episodic live tests in conflicts, and increase the strategic dependency of less capable states. AI will also create more powerful offensive and defensive cyber tools, generating a new cyber-security dilemma, increasing the likelihood of new conflicts, and empowering non-state criminal actors. Additionally, in the media dimension, AI will automate and amplify the production, distribution, and consumption of information and disinformation during peace, crisis, and wartime, influencing public opinion and discourse, and exposing democratic states to informational, political, and diplomatic conflicts with potentially serious effects on inter-state trust and stability. Umetna inteligenca (UI) hitro postaja ključni katalizator preobrazbe znotraj mednarodnega sistema. UI ponuja tako pomemben potencial kot resna tveganja, kar države motivira, da uravnotežijo izjemne priložnosti z velikimi izzivi. Glavni cilj članka je analizirati in predstaviti, kako tehnologije UI in njihova paradoksalna družbeno-tehnična narava spreminjajo mednarodne odnose s pospeševanjem globalne nestabilnosti in varnostnih groženj ter ustvarjanjem novih vektorjev moči, ranljivosti in vpliva. Članek analizira preobrazbene vplive v treh ključnih dimenzijah: obrambi, kibernetski varnosti in medijih. V obrambni dimenziji prikazuje, da bodo nastajajoči avtonomni sistemi na vseh področjih znatno izboljšali nacionalne vojaške zmogljivosti, hkrati pa bodo okrepili strateško konkurenco med državami z epizodnimi preizkusi v živo v konfliktih in povečali strateško odvisnost manj sposobnih držav. Umetna inteligenca bo ustvarila tudi močnejša ofenzivna in obrambna kibernetska orodja, kar bo povzročilo novo dilemo na področju kibernetske varnosti, povečalo verjetnost novih konfliktov in opolnomočilo nedržavne kriminalne akterje. Poleg tega bo umetna inteligenca v medijski dimenziji avtomatizirala in okrepila proizvodnjo, distribucijo in porabo informacij in dezinformacij v miru, krizah in vojni, s čimer bo vplivala na javno mnenje in diskurz ter izpostavila demokratične države informacijskim, političnim in diplomatskim konfliktom, ki bi lahko imeli resne posledice za meddržavno zaupanje in stabilnost. AI international relations defence cyber-security media Umetna inteligenca Mednarodni odnosi Mednarodna varnost obramba digitalna varnost mediji true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-07-02 11:04:53 2026-07-02 11:05:08 2026-07-03 04:23:34 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 73-92 no. 2 Vol. 19 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-06-27 355/359:004.056 1338-1385 10.5281/zenodo.20969830 283389955 https://zenodo.org/records/20969831 1 09cfeda8-75f5-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=236851 RAZ_Luknar_Ivana_2026.pdf RAZ_Luknar_Ivana_2026.pdf 1 D9C665F335C84C926526568E65A90D16 b624b3a30768c1578450827ada06abdd8e042668c9672bde1c9b0ac0a89246dd 4d30103e-75f5-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=236852 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0