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The economics of AI regulation meet the realities of geopolitical rivalry

Capital Economics · · International · AI Governance

A Capital Economics analysis examines how the financial costs and trade-offs of AI regulation intersect with competition between major powers, suggesting that geopolitical rivalry is shaping how governments approach AI governance.

Why this matters: When countries treat AI regulation as a weapon in a geopolitical contest, the people who lose are not governments or tech giants. They are ordinary users who end up with less protection because their country decided safety rules were a competitive disadvantage. That is a real trade-off, and it rarely gets named plainly. The pressure to go easy on AI oversight because a rival nation is moving fast is not a technical argument. It is a political choice about whose interests come first.

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