“…Exactly ten years ago, Review of Policy Research published a special issue on one of the main emerging technologies of the time, namely, nanotechnology (Guston, 2013). Reading it today and comparing it with discussions about AI, we encounter a number of similar themes including awareness of and engagement with socio‐political aspects of emerging technology (Guston, 2013), interrogation of agenda‐setting and policy shaping in response to societal concerns (Anderson & Slade, 2013; Michelson, 2013), risks to vulnerable populations (Savath & Brainard, 2013) and scrutiny over industry's responsibility in the development of new technology (Shelley‐Egan & Davies, 2013). At the same time, we also observe that, with wide‐ranging applications of AI, the topics of politics and power in the context of emerging technologies have become even more salient.…”