‘Inside’ the AI Act Negotiations: Three Transversal Narratives in the Struggle for Social Positioning and Identity‐Making
本文通过政治民族志方法，研究欧盟《人工智能法案》谈判中外交官和官僚的叙事实践，揭示他们如何通过三种竞争性叙事（伦理道德、国家经济、超国家全球）争夺社会地位并建构欧盟身份。
Abstract This article adopts a political ethnographic approach to follow narrative practices enacted by diplomats and bureaucrats during the trilogue negotiations of the European Union's (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act where inter‐institutional dynamics were at stake. I argue that when diplomats and bureaucrats negotiate AI, they also negotiate their desired position in a struggle over status in EU's diplomatic structures while constructing competing identities of the EU. The narrative analysis shows that three narrative positions endure, ethical and moral; national and economic; supranational and global, which interact through negotiation practices of brokerage and improvisation (re)negotiating social positions and (re)constructing three faces of a European AI identity. These narratives are not performed by a specific diplomat or bureaucrat but remain transversal, competing within and across national, ideological and institutional boundaries. The competing meanings are comprised into the AI Act constituting AI, its governance structure and the EU with ambiguous meanings.