Sociotechnical imaginaries of artificial intelligence in EU law making: a focus on crime and se-curity.

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its various manifestations, has become a core topic in debates concerning crime and security, both because of its potentially criminogenic features, and because of its possibilities as a tool for crime prevention and mitigation. In recent years, critical criminological and criminal justice scholarship has started to pay attention to the sociotechnical imaginaries and the narratives depicting AI especially in the context of crime control, emphasising how prevalent narratives can obfuscate the harms of data-driven technologies and evince idealistic imaginaries of their capabilities. This contribution furthers this line of inquiry, focusing on the AI-adjacent sociotechnical imaginaries with a focus on crime and security in EU law making in the debates and negotiations around the Artificial Intelligence Act (the EU regulation on artificial intelligence).