This study examines the transformations brought about by artificial intelligence (AI) in practices of power and violence, focusing on its role in reshaping what has been termed “necropolitics” and reconfiguring the practices of evil in the digital age. It argues that AI is not merely a technological development, but an anthropological and political transformation that is redefining relations of knowledge, power, sovereignty, and moral responsibility. To analyse these transformations, the study draws on philosophical and critical approaches, particularly Kant’s concept of radical evil, Hannah Arendt’s notion of the banality of evil, and Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, alongside broader reflections on aggression and violence. Particular attention is given to the use of AI technologies in surveillance and military targeting, with the Palestinian case, especially the war in Gaza, serving as a field for examining how algorithmic systems have contributed to accelerating information gathering, target classification, and military decision-making. The study argues that the central danger lies not in technology itself, but in the political and ethical structures that shape its use, and in the possibility that algorithms may become intermediaries for diffusing responsibility, normalizing violence, and giving decisions over life and death a technical character.
