Toward an Epistemology of Al Regulation

王国豫

复旦大学科技伦理与人类未来研究院院长

复旦大学哲学学院教授

Dean of the Institute of Technology Ethics 

for Human Future, Fudan University

Professor at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University

Hernán Gabriel Borisonik

阿根廷圣马丁国立大学人文学院副教授

国家科技研究理事会研究员

复旦发展研究院访问学者

Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM)

Argentina Researcher at National Scientific 

and Technical Research Council (CONICET) 

Visiting Scholar, Fudan Development Institute

2025年12月2日（星期二）16:00-18:00

16:00-18:00, December 2nd, 2025 (Tue)

复旦大学邯郸校区

复旦源A栋科技伦理与人类未来研究院205室

Room 205, Institute of Technology Ethics

for Human Future,

Fudan Yuan Building A, 

Fudan University (Handan Campus)

科技伦理与人类未来研究院

Institute of Technology Ethics for Human Future

复旦发展研究院

Fudan Development Institute

复旦-拉美大学联盟

Fudan-Latin America, University Consortium

This seminar explores the philosophical and political foundations of artificial intelligence (Al) regulation, focusing on how different societies conceptualize the ethical, institutional, and epistemic dimensions of technological governance. Drawing on the notion ofsociotechnical imaginaries, l will examine how dominant Western frameworks-particularly those of the European Union and the United States-project a universalist vision that often conceals their own normative and cultural assumptions. To ground this argument, l will refer to my work in political philosophy and science and technology studies (STS), together with my experience in Al public policy in Argentina, where l have collaborated with the National Congress's Commission on Al and to the public policy initiative for an Argentine University Council for Strategic Technologies and Artificial lntelligence. Rather than proposing a regulatory model from or for any particular region, the seminar seeks to open a dialogue attentive to the diversity of ethical and philosophical traditions that shape regulatory thought, in this spirit, we will consider how normative frameworks emerge at the intersection of political imaginaries, institutional practices, and technological infrastructures. Ultimately, l aim to foster an interdisciplinary conversation on how to build more epistemically plural and politically viable foundations for Al governance, with a particular interest in learning from and dialoguing with the significant contributions emerging from Chinese scholarship and policy.