Traveling AI-essentialism and national AI strategies: A comparison between South Korea and France |
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Authors: | Jongheon Kim |
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Institution: | Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés, University Gustave Eiffel, CNRS, Champs-sur-Marne, France |
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Abstract: | In this paper, I investigate what common discourses National AI Strategies (NAISs) share and how they have unfolded differently in diverging national contexts. For this purpose, I compare the South Korean and French cases by relying on the notions of sociotechnical imaginary and future essentialism. I analyze (1) the emergence of the common discourses, which I call AI-essentialism, over the past decade; (2) the development of imaginaries around IT in Korea and France in the twentieth century, namely technological developmentalism and the American challenge, respectively; and (3) the integration of the traveling AI-essentialism and nationally embedded imaginaries of IT into each country's NAISs. The analysis indicates that: (1) AI-essentialism incorporated discursive strategies, enabling political and industrial leaders to naturalize AI development, hence justifying increased investments in the field; (2) two countries' imaginaries of IT diverged due to the successes and failures throughout the second half of the twentieth century; and (3) while two countries' NAISs share AI-essentialism's discursive instruments, their specific measures and unfolding have varied in relation to each case's existing imaginaries of IT. |
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Keywords: | AI-essentialism artificial intelligence National Strategy sociotechnical imaginary traveling imaginary Inteligencia artificial estrategia nacional imaginario sociotécnico imaginario viajero esencialismo de IA 人工智能 国家战略 社会技术想象 快速传播的想象 人工智能本质主义 |
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