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AI LLM March 03, 2026

Shared (Mis)Understandings and the Governance of AI: A Thematic Analysis of the 2023-2024 Oversight of AI Hearings

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Rachel Leach

Abstract

This paper investigates early legislative deliberations over Artificial Intelligence in the United States through a thematic analysis of the 2023-2024 Oversight of AI hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. I focus on these hearings as a site where participants draw from, and renegotiate, accustomed ways of thinking about technology and society. First, I examine how participants, who overwhelmingly represent the technology industry, work to create narratives for understanding the past, present, and future impacts of AI. Second, I examine how these narratives are invoked to argue for particular forms of AI governance, while casting alternative approaches as everything from infeasible to anti-American. By tracing industry influence over dominant understandings of the impacts of AI and the proper role of government, I examine the arrangements of power enacted and upheld through these hearings. In all, I ask: what role to shared (mis)understandings of AI play in early attempts at governing this technology?

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arXiv ID: 2603.03193
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: cs.CY
Published: 2026-03-03
Fetched: 2026-03-04 03:41

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