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AI & Power Discourse Quarterly invites original research articles and interdisciplinary contributions examining how artificial intelligence reorganizes authority, legitimacy, responsibility, visibility, and institutional power.

AI & Power Discourse Quarterly is preparing its next issue, continuing its peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary examination of artificial intelligence, language, authority, governance, and structures of power.

Artificial intelligence does not need to issue explicit commands to exercise authority. Increasingly, authority appears in the form of recommendations, rankings, summaries, alerts, risk scores, compliance notices, and apparently neutral formulations that organize what users, institutions, and decision-makers perceive as reasonable or necessary. This shift matters because power is no longer located only in identifiable speakers. In bureaucratic and algorithmic environments, th

As automated language systems become central to decision-making, content creation, and even policy formulation, one question remains largely underexplored: What legitimizes discourse when authorship disappears?

The response to our first call confirmed that AI, discourse, and power are no longer marginal concerns. They are becoming a shared research problem across disciplines.

AI & Power Discourse Quarterly was created to study a problem that conventional AI debate often treats as secondary: how automated language systems reorganize authority, legitimacy, and political visibility.

Language models do more than generate text: once embedded in institutions, they can influence how legitimacy is framed, attributed, and operationalized.

The influence of AI on linguistics and governance is not limited to better text generation. It changes how institutions classify, summarize, recommend, and define legitimate action.