AI plays a central role in the 2024 US presidential election, as a tool for disinformation and as a key policy issue. But its significance extends beyond these, connecting to an emerging ideology known as TESCREAL, which envisages AI as a catalyst for unprecedented progress, including space colonisation. After this election, TESCREALism may well have more than one representative in the White House, writes Filip Bialy.
Assistant Professor, European New School of Digital Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań / Research Associate, Digital Campaigning and Electoral Democracy, University of Manchester
Filip is a political theorist with a computer science background.
His work focuses on the digital transformation of politics, political theory of AI, and ideological analysis.
Filip has held fellowships at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, University of Cambridge, and LSE.
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