Paper short abstract:

Utilising the STS lens of "constitutionalist coproduction", this paper examines this paper analyzes tacit and yet profound transformations in the world both in the cognitive and the political realm with the production of knowledge and regulation of AI.

Paper long abstract:

AI is deeply entangled with politics and geopolitics, as evident in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, proliferating discourse of "AI race" as well as the sociotechnical imaginaries which link AI progress with national achievement across cultures. However, both AI's ontological statues and AI systems' impacts are currently under intense contestation. These uncertainties around AI have become a particularly thorny issue when regulators attempt to tame the emerging knowledge and products with instruments and practices such as ethical guidelines, risk-based regulatory frameworks, standards and auditing processes. Controversies unfold in China, the EU and the US in different ways.

By analyzing policy documents, interviews with experts, and public controversies in China, the EU and the US through a co-productionist lens, this paper analyzes tacit and yet profound transformations in the world both in the cognitive and the political realm with the production of knowledge and regulation of AI. It examines these constitutive processes by asking three questions: how do the fundamental political organizations as well as institutional and procedural arrangements in science and technology policy making in the different political entities shape the epistemic approaches to understanding AI, its risks and solutions to problems? 2. How are the identification and categorization of AI and associated risks created to maintain certain socio-political orders in China, the EU and the US? 3. During a time of heightened geopolitical rifts and ideological conflicts, how can the co-productionist interpretive approach contribute to the ongoing efforts to form a global regime of AI governance?