Artificial intelligence and political trust

Fink-Hafner, Danica (author), Kaišić, Katarina (author)

This article is based on understanding political trust as a relational concept. In the frame of liberal democratic thought, the article refers to the relationship between citizens and political institutions, and the role played by political trust as the crucial glue that holds it together, thereby enabling the democratic political system to function successfully. Based on a narrative literature review, we have developed a conceptual model that illustrates the complex relationship between trust in artificial intelligence (AI), political trust and the broader context in which these relationships are co‑constructed by various actors.

• Language: English
• Keywords: political trust, AI governance
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 349-369
• Numbering: Vol. 21, issue 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-175544
• UDC: 321.7:004.8
• ISSN on article: 1801-3422
• DOI: 10.2478/pce-2025-0014
• COBISS.SI-ID: 255608067
• Publication date in RUL: 03.11.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Politics in Central Europe
• Publisher: Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
• ISSN: 1801-3422
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24713309

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: demokracija, umetna inteligenca

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0136
• Name: Politološke raziskave