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| author | Leach, Rachel |
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| contents | This paper investigates early legislative deliberations over Artificial Intelligence in the United States through a thematic analysis of the 2023-2024 Oversight of AI hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. I focus on these hearings as a site where participants draw from, and renegotiate, accustomed ways of thinking about technology and society. First, I examine how participants, who overwhelmingly represent the technology industry, work to create narratives for understanding the past, present, and future impacts of AI. Second, I examine how these narratives are invoked to argue for particular forms of AI governance, while casting alternative approaches as everything from infeasible to anti-American. By tracing industry influence over dominant understandings of the impacts of AI and the proper role of government, I examine the arrangements of power enacted and upheld through these hearings. In all, I ask: what role to shared (mis)understandings of AI play in early attempts at governing this technology? |
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| spellingShingle | Shared (Mis)Understandings and the Governance of AI: A Thematic Analysis of the 2023-2024 Oversight of AI Hearings Leach, Rachel Computers and Society This paper investigates early legislative deliberations over Artificial Intelligence in the United States through a thematic analysis of the 2023-2024 Oversight of AI hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. I focus on these hearings as a site where participants draw from, and renegotiate, accustomed ways of thinking about technology and society. First, I examine how participants, who overwhelmingly represent the technology industry, work to create narratives for understanding the past, present, and future impacts of AI. Second, I examine how these narratives are invoked to argue for particular forms of AI governance, while casting alternative approaches as everything from infeasible to anti-American. By tracing industry influence over dominant understandings of the impacts of AI and the proper role of government, I examine the arrangements of power enacted and upheld through these hearings. In all, I ask: what role to shared (mis)understandings of AI play in early attempts at governing this technology? |
| title | Shared (Mis)Understandings and the Governance of AI: A Thematic Analysis of the 2023-2024 Oversight of AI Hearings |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03193 |