I'm always a bit wary with democracy and capitalism. Sometimes it's ill-equipped to handle specifically things like this. And judging by the current situation in the US... Maybe it's not the voters who get what they want or need...

I'm not so sure. The EU often tries to regulate. The US not so much. And the Chinese do their own thing. I believe these endeavors are controlled and financed by the government. Depends on what they like, and that's currently invest a lot of money into AI startups, datacenters, chip design and manufacturing and train experts and scientists... So it looks to me as if everyone except the EU wants to push AI. And even the EU said they want to compete.

I think we need a bit more regulation than even the EU does. They had some very good ideas. And I'd like some more transparency, mandatory watermarking to combat all the AI slop and a few things added to how copyright works.