This project explores the cultural archive concerning AI and maps how these imaginaries are influencing the current legal and political discourses on AI regulation.
Faculty/School
Faculty of Business and Law
Topic status
We're looking for students to study this topic.
Supervisors
- Position
- Professor
- Division / Faculty
- Faculty of Business & Law
Overview
Most jurisdictions are proposing or enacting AI laws and regulation. In doing so there is a sense of the possibly benefits and dangers of AI. This has often involved a speculation about what AI might become or how it might be developed to be deployed in specific contexts. Informing this speculative project is the cultural imaginary of AI, the collective narratives, tropes and memes that circulate in popular culture about artificial entities. This project involves a connecting between the AI lawmaking and the imaginary of AI. The aim is not inherently to show that AI lawmakers are trapped in a 20th sci-fi universe of killer robots, but to emphasis how popular cultural narratives, tropes and memes become transmitted into law through lawmaking procedures and processes.
Research engagement
Literature review
Research activities
Kieran Tranter - guided and supported law /policy and humanities research.
Outcomes
Body of knowledge
Contribution to a journal article
Basis for a LLH479 research thesis project
Skills and experience
An interest in law/regulation of technology
Start date
1 November, 2024End date
28 February, 2025Location
GP
Keywords
Contact
Kieran Tranter k.tranter@qut.edu.aui