Artificial intelligence

Regine Paul

Chapter 1 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government, 2026, pp 1-6 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry explores the role of states in developing and governing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It outlines three key interactions between states and the corporate AI world. Firstly, states act as chief regulators trying to alleviate the gravest social risks incurred by the technology, but increasingly also targeting monopoly structures on digital markets. Secondly, state interventions from investment in AI research and development to regulation strategically facilitate economic and geopolitical competitiveness in a globally tightening race to AI. Thirdly, states increasingly rely on data-driven corporate logics in their own public administration and governance projects, thereby creating public demand for AI boom. These three modes of interaction between states and businesses highlight that states’ regulation, policy-making, and administrative practice powerfully co-shape the business environment for AI development. However, global power asymmetries shape how much states can bend AI futures more towards their own visions or are exposed to those of others.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Regulation; Competitiveness; Big data; Governance; Public administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035307777
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