University of Twente Student Theses
Artificial Intelligence at Europe’s borders : Improvement to the Status Quo or mere Technosolutionism?
Hartwig, P.F. (2023) Artificial Intelligence at Europe’s borders : Improvement to the Status Quo or mere Technosolutionism?
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| Abstract: | Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly crosscut all sectors, urging scholars and legislators to address the ethical and legal challenges that the deployment of such systems invokes. EU policymakers are currently working to finalise the AI Act regulation, which will undoubtedly shape the future of AI systems’ usage and dissemination across the EU, including its external borders. AI usage in border control has been subject to controversy and is considered high-risk. This thesis examines the problematisation of AI governance for border management in the political and legislative discourse. Hitherto, a Foucault-inspired Discourse Analysis guided by the ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ approach was conducted using qualitative coding. Various official documents on the regulation proposal, border, and AI governance were analysed. Results indicated increasing convergence of the dominant risk management security paradigm with a rationalised, calculation-based pre-emption for border digitalisation and a technosolutionist problematisation of AI usage that places disproportionate attention on the design of ethical AI and questionable oversight mechanisms, while the biopolitical nature of border control and surveillance technologies is made apolitical through normalising discourses of digital data doubles and the informatisation of the body for border-crossing purposes. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 88 social and public administration, 89 political science |
| Programme: | Management Society and Technology BSc (56654) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96137 |
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