Creating the Technological Saviour: Discourses on AI in Europe and the Legitimation of Super Capitalism
AI for Everyone?, chapter 9, University of Westminster Press, London, (2021)Abstract
Dominant narratives in public fora, and increasingly within governments, place great importance on nations achieving leadership in artificial intelligence (AI). What is becoming clear is that world leaders are invested in making AI the business opportunity of the future – and thereby selling it as a virtue and a public good (Economist 2017, 2018; World Economic Forum 2018). Scholars in political economy of communication have shown how discourses around digital technologies have historically been constructed around modern myths (Mosco 2004) with major references to utopian worlds and possibilities.