Borrowed Code, Romanian Fears: AI Narratives in Literature, Academia, and Media
摘要
This chapter probes how post-authoritarian memory, lexical borrowing, and media practice shape Romanian talk about artificial intelligence. The notion of surveillance literacy, an interdiscursive frame merging historical tech enthusiasm and wariness of oversight, emerges from science fiction published until the 1980s, current academic and policy texts on AI, and the 2022–2024 media coverage of Romania’s governmental AI adviser, as a cross-disciplinary approach to critical discourse analysis. Close reading tracks the migration of monitoring-related language across genres, while sentiment analysis shows cautious optimism among university staff and students as well as in mainstream news. Linguistic analysis finds English technical labels beside Romanian terms for accountability, suggesting a split between imported expertise and native control language.