6: Policy Discourses on Robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the EU, the USA, and China

This chapters asks: What do the Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies of the EU, the United States under Donald Trump and China look like? It conducts a critical policy discourse analysis from a Radical Humanist Perspective. It analyses what kind of ideologies we can find in the AI strategies of the European Union, the United States under Donald Trump and China.

The analysis shows that AI and robotics are situated in a digital technology race that is indicative of an international political-economic race for the accumulation of political-economic power.