Policy Positions on AI Integration, Displacement and Mitigation - An International Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The integration of artificial intelligence into the global economy at scale presents governments with a policy challenge of unprecedented breadth and velocity. Existing regulatory frameworks, designed for slower-moving technological transitions, are structurally ill-equipped to manage the simultaneous displacement of labour across multiple sectors, the concentration of economic power in AI-capable entities, and the social consequences of vocational identity collapse at population scale. This article provides an international comparative analysis of governmental, economic, and industrial policy responses to AI integration and displacement across the OECD, the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, and selected outlier nations. It examines the historical precedents of internet regulation, analyses current policy frameworks and their adequacy, documents the labour market transformation already underway, and projects the ideological evolution that governing populations through post-vocational transition will require. The article argues that no existing ideological framework is adequate to the challenge, and that the most probable governance trajectory is a convergence toward technocratic social democracy — a hybrid of universal provision, algorithmically managed governance, and declining genuine democratic accountability.

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