Quarterly Journal of Governance Knowledge

Quarterly Journal of Governance Knowledge

Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Editor-in-Chief Lecture

Author
Reza Naghizadeh
Associate Professor, Department of Management, Scientific Policy Research Center, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jokog.2025.234330
Abstract
One of the key approaches in policymaking and governance in the last two decades has been data-driven policymaking and governance. Based on knowledge and experience, policy makers and governance researchers have concluded that data plays a central role in pioneer governance systems. Accordingly, it is possible to clearly see the difference between developed and developing countries in terms of the quality of available data and statistics, which are key tools of governance.
However, the issue of data and data-driven governance has undergone serious changes with the more general emergence of artificial intelligence and its wider exploitation at various levels. Today, society and policy makers have access to a large volume of data, which has been analyzed and categorized at an appropriate level, using artificial intelligence capabilities (such as LLMs). Of course, this data is mainly based on publicly available data and it is a problem. The key lies in connecting the private data of governance bodies to this public data and performing strong reasoning using artificial intelligence.
How governance systems connect their private data to public data and enable learning and increasing the analytical power of artificial intelligence tools is an important and transformative issue. For example, using the capacity of intelligent assistants for policy makers (with public and private data) can seriously increase the power of a policy maker in short-term and medium-term decision-making.
Achieving this depends on the correct recognition of the capacities of artificial intelligence by policy makers and the intelligent governance of private data to increase the reasoning power of artificial intelligence tools. With a little indulgence, we can observe the paradigm shift from the era of data-driven governance to governance based on artificial intelligence. Now the key question is what is the governance of this paradigm shift and the role of policy makers and governance researchers in this path?. What capabilities should the policy makers of the future be equipped with to use artificial intelligence?
Keywords
Governance
Artificial Intelligence
AI Governance
Quarterly Journal of Governance Knowledge
Volume 3, Issue 7
Summer 2025
Pages 2-3