A study examines Canada's strategy as an infrastructure: who holds the expertise, how AI's opacity feeds strategic ignorance, and why recourse is struggling to redress harm.
How is a national AI policy concretely constructed, and for whose benefit? Research devoted to Canada addresses the question by treating governance as an infrastructure, assembled, maintained and contested, by crossing studies of infrastructure, social studies of science and the approach of Black feminist technoscience, attentive to knowledge and work made invisible.
Three observations
The authors conducted in-depth interviews with civil servants, civil society associations, academics and industrial actors. Their analysis highlights the way in which the definition of expertise structures power in this system; the way in which actors deal with the opacity of AI systems, sometimes through assumed ignorance; and the difficulty of justice and accountability mechanisms to deal with AI-related harms.
They plead for governance mechanisms that give more space to care, maintenance, democratic participation and timetables that can be adapted.
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