The role that tech companies play in the context of AI technologies is hugely significant and the subject of a number of emerging research endeavours focusing, inter alia, on Big Tech. 46 The theme of investigating private authority in global governance is not new in IR but started as an analytical concern in the late 1990s. 47 What appears to be new, however, is the status of such tech companies as contributors to shaping international governance of AI in explicit and implicit ways. 48 Explicitly, we see that many state actors or international organisations seek out tech company representatives to participate in AI governance conversations.
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AI Technologies and International Relations: Do We Need New Analytical Frameworks?
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