Yaqiu Wang & Nicholas Bequelin question the wisdom of the industry’s desperate efforts to avoid meaningful democratic oversight.
Innovation
Sep 4, 2026
Yaqiu Wang
and Nicholas Bequelin
The United States can prevail in the AI race against China by leaning into the strengths of an open society: democratic oversight, the rule of law, robust competition, and open public debate. But that won’t happen as long as American AI companies aggressively lobby against accountability and cozy up to the state.
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