加拿大 AI 治理基础设施中的权力博弈：基于 Black Feminist Technoscience 的批判框架

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Abstract:This paper develops a critical theoretical framework for understanding national Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies through the lens of "Governance as Infrastructure." Integrating insights from Infrastructure Studies, Science and Technology Studies (STS), this paper employs Black Feminist Technoscience (BFTS) to reveal how AI governance infrastructures are assembled, maintained, and contested, and whose forms of knowledge, labour, and experience are rendered visible or invisible in these processes. We analyze the Canadian AI governance landscape through in-depth interviews with bureaucrats, civil society advocacy groups, academic researchers, and industry actors. Our inductive thematic analysis reveals how AI governance infrastructure enacts specific configurations of power, particularly through the politics of expertise; how actors navigate profound ambiguities related to AI's opacity, often involving strategic ignorance; and how mechanisms for justice and accountability struggle to address AI-related harms. We contend that a BFTS perspective highlights the limitations of current governance approaches and points toward alternative infrastructural designs prioritizing care, maintenance, participatory democracy, and adaptive temporalities to foster more equitable and accountable technology governance.

Subjects:	Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
Cite as:	arXiv:2610.38077 [cs.HC]
	(or arXiv:2610.38077v2 [cs.HC] for this version)
	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.38077 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

Submission history

From: Christelle Tessono [view email]
[v1] Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:46:18 UTC (765 KB)
[v2] Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:04:42 UTC (765 KB)