Abstract

            This article explores contemporary digital surveillance through Michel Foucault’s theoretical framework of the panopticon. Building upon the architectural and philosophical model originally associated with Jeremy Bentham, the paper argues that artificial intelligence does not transcend panoptic power but rather intensifies and transforms it through algorithmic surveillance, data-driven governance, and predictive technologies. The article situates artificial intelligence within Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, governmentality, power/knowledge, genealogy, and subjectivation. It further discusses how algorithmic infrastructures embedded in digital platforms reshape social visibility, behavioral regulation, and subject formation. By examining phenomena such as social media monitoring, algorithmic decision-making, and automated observation systems, the article argues that surveillance has become normalized and internalized within everyday life. The paper ultimately concludes that artificial intelligence represents a contemporary reconfiguration of panoptic power in which observation becomes continuous, automated, and embedded in digital infrastructures. The article presents a theoretically grounded philosophical interpretation of artificial intelligence and surveillance. The topic is timely and relevant in the current context of expanding algorithmic governance and digital monitoring systems.