6 CHINA’S EVOLVING AI DEVELOPMENT Emergent Process Transcending Instrumentalism and Morality

Qi Haotian

DOI: 10.4324/9781003218326-7

Technology is not an apolitical or amoral force. Contemporary technological advances are not just about algorithms as abstract artefacts but are endowed with a specific structuring function and develop as emerging phenomena. Technological transitions or transformations do not only involve instrumental changes in the scientific and technical sense. They also consist of changes in socio-political elements such as practices, regulation, industrial networks, infrastructure, and socially, politically, and culturally constructed meanings. No technological transition takes place linearly or smoothly. In the technological ...

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