Artificial Intelligence and the Temporalities of Responsibility and Risk

As creators of artificial intelligence (AI) begin to express regret over their role in its development, some are suggesting the need to take responsibility for the technology‘s effects. As part of the TIBG Themed Intervention which asks, ‘What does it mean to take responsibility and enact care and repair in the realm of AI?’, we consider how responsibility is being mobilised in and through AI. We first track the spatio‐temporal dimensions of responsibility in AI and, second, chart the connections and gaps between a language of responsibility and a language of risk in recent AI developments. Thinking through where, and when, responsibility surfaces in the genealogy of AI and how responsibility does, and does not, feed into conversations around AI, we suggest, is essential to better understanding the complicated spatio‐temporalities of responsibility to, within, and of AI systems.