  Policymakers face a broader challenge of how to view AI capabilities today
and where does society stand in terms of those capabilities. This paper surveys
AI capabilities and tackles this very issue, exploring it in context of
political security in digitally networked societies. We extend the ideas of
Information Management to better understand contemporary AI systems as part of
a larger and more complex information system. Comprehensively reviewing AI
capabilities and contemporary man-machine interactions, we undertake conceptual
development to suggest that better information management could allow states to
more optimally offset the risks of AI enabled influence and better utilise the
emerging capabilities which these systems have to offer to policymakers and
political institutions across the world. Hopefully this long essay will actuate
further debates and discussions over these ideas, and prove to be a useful
contribution towards governing the future of AI.
