The Master's thesis deals with the growing role of technology in the 21st century as one of the factors in the structure of the international community and examines the understanding of artificial intelligence systems within the framework of cybersecurity. It focuses on one of the three digital empires in the international community, i.e. the European Union (EU). Compared to the American and Chinese models, the EU, due to its multilateral nature as an international organisation, represents an approximation to the established ways of addressing this issue in the international community. The focus of the analysis is on the question of how artificial intelligence is treated as a cyber threat to international security, within the framework of a constructivist approach to the perception of international security threats and using the research method of content analysis and interpretation of primary and secondary sources. Empirical results based on security threat identifiers in five sectors (political, military, social, economic and environmental) indicate a varying degree of securitisation of artificial intelligence as a threat to international security. The findings of the Master's thesis show that actors do not understand artificial intelligence as an existential threat, but rather as a multidimensional and complex risk. As such, artificial intelligence is placed on the security agenda primarily within the social and political sectors. This indicates the ambivalence of technological progress, which represents both a source of threats and an opportunity for economic progress and green development.
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