Generative AI governance: from regulatory design to institutional reordering

Abstract

This special issue approaches generative AI governance as a multi-sited and contested process. Across diverse contexts, the contributions reveal governance as distributed across institutions, geographies, and infrastructures. By foregrounding labour, knowledge, and values as key sites of reordering, this special issue situates debates on generative AI within the institutional conditions through which systems are stabilised, contested, and normalised. Across the special issue, generative AI governance emerges through struggles that determine whose labour is seen, whose interests are protected, and whose voices are marginalised.