This symposium explores the democratic, political, and societal implications of agentic AI – AI systems that act with increasing autonomy, adaptability, and capacity to shape social realities. Moving beyond a narrow focus on AI as a technical tool, the symposium examines how agentic AI reconfigures agency, power, and responsibility across domains such as digital sovereignty, security, hybridisation, and hybrid warfare.

The event brings together perspectives from political theory, philosophy, science and technology studies, and perspectives of practitioners. It asks how democratic institutions, norms, and publics can respond to AI systems
that increasingly act within and upon social and political orders. Particular attention is paid to questions of governance, accountability, and intergenerational perspectives, as well as to the opportunities and risks agentic AI poses for democratic resilience in hybrid and conflict-prone contexts.