In this paper, we develop an approach for analyzing the increasingly important strand of research that deals with automated systems of governing. Such systems, which figure prominently in public policy and regulation, are designed to utilize the rapid advancement in computer technology, like artificial intelligence, with the purpose of governing something or someone. Drawing on a large sample of articles we present a comprehensive analysis of scholarly works where these systems are studied as political, rather than neutral, instruments of governing. We find that the current state of the art articulates the politics of automated systems of governing in three ways. Namely, as part of ontological, epistemological and ideological questions. We conclude that future research should investigate the complex forms of marketization nested in these systems, that it should move from theoretical examples to detailed empirical studies and that political science should get more involved with the issue.

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自动治理的政治研究：鸟瞰（重新）视图

在本文中，我们开发了一种方法来分析涉及自动化治理系统的日益重要的研究领域。此类系统在公共政策和监管中占有重要地位，旨在利用人工智能等计算机技术的快速进步，以达到治理某物或某人的目的。我们利用大量文章样本，对学术著作进行了全面分析，其中这些制度被视为政治而非中立的治理工具。我们发现，当前的最新技术以三种方式阐明了自动化治理系统的政治。即，作为本体论、认识论和意识形态问题的一部分。我们的结论是，未来的研究应该调查这些系统中嵌套的市场化的复杂形式，应该从理论实例转向详细的实证研究，政治学应该更多地参与这个问题。