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AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches to AI

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In this essay collection we survey the nationalist narratives and emergent industrial policies being proposed by governments with differing economic and geopolitical motivations. In this essay collection we survey the nationalist narratives and emergent industrial policies being proposed by governments with differing economic and geopolitical motivations. The national policies surveyed in this collection have largely functioned to reinforce the notion that AI is both a socially and geopolitically important sector, and therefore worthy of government strategies (and spending) to promote it. With such far-reaching consequences for the public at stake – from the allocation of public funds to the rapid promotion of AI tools in sensitive social domains through procurement mandates – any claims to advancing public good must be scrutinized. In the past year and a half, with the release of sophisticated AI tools to the public, interest in the speculative promise of AI technologies has exploded

AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches to AI - AI Now Institute Overview In this essay collection we survey the nationalist narratives and emergent industrial policies being proposed by governments with differing economic and geopolitical motivations. The national policies surveyed in this collection have largely functioned to reinforce the notion that AI is both a socially and geopolitically important sector, and therefore worthy of government strategies (and spending) to promote it. With such far-reaching consequences for the public at stake – from the allocation of public fu

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