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Fighting For Democracy Amid the AI Race: Designing Tech Industrial Policy to Promote Democratic Economic Governance

BY and | March 30, 2026

As countries around the world rush to encourage greater investment and growth in their domestic AI industries, we argue that unless governments develop industrial policy strategies centered on strengthening democratic...

As countries around the world rush to encourage greater investment and growth in their domestic AI industries, we argue that unless governments develop industrial policy strategies centered on strengthening democratic economic governance, they risk consolidating corporate control of critical technologies in ways that threaten key democratic and societal objectives. In this paper, we (1) define democratic economic governance and the ways it can be integrated into governments’ industrial policy

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