Abstract: Astechnological progress is an inevitable trend in history, we, with the vigorous development of artificial intelligence, has ushered the era of intelligence. Artificial intelligence, supported by massive data and super algorithms, has broken through many limitations of human development and outlined a new landscape for public political participation and government scientific decision-making. But as its application has been expanding and its influence extending, artificial intelligence is no longer just a carnival of technological revolution, but also the implementation of a new rule, bringing both risks and challenges to democratic politics. AI reconstructs the power structure within the modern country, breaks through the monopoly pattern of political discourse power, promotes the rise of “expert groups” as independent political units, and expedites the “super power” produced by the collision of capital and technology, so that the gap between the elite and the public continues to grow, sliding towards “Technology Leviathan”. At the same time, the inherent technological loopholes such as algorithmic discrimination and black box operations are impacting the traditional political order and value system, tearing apart, at a higher speed, of the basic values with consensus such as justice, freedom, equality, rationality in human society, thus rendering human subjectivity to be slowly removed from political life. The inevitability and urgency of the risks and challenges brought about artificial intelligence corner us to be cautious about its future development, reasonably draw a line for its application so as to ultimately achieve a positive interaction between technology and society, thus achieving the goals of “good governance” and “good intelligence”.

Key words: artificial intelligence, democratic politics, Technology Leviathan, algorithm discrimination, political polarization