Meeting the Coming Wave: The Emerging Politics of AI and Work across 33 Parliaments

2026-09-02

AI Summary

研究使用33个议会的150多万次演讲，分析了AI与工作之间新兴的政治议题，发现主要争议在于是否应促进技术变革或控制其发展路径。

Abstract

A new politics of artificial intelligence and work is taking shape across party systems, but comparative politics has yet to map it. Using 1,514,950 parliamentary speeches from 33 parliaments (2023-2026), we show this politics follows a different logic than political economy expects. Research anticipates that technological disruption generates demands for compensation; instead, compensation accounts for just 2.3% of response-frame mentions, while enablement and investment dominate (55.2%), regulation and restriction follow (21.8%), and training (20.6%) appears at similar rates across families. Parties disagree instead over what AI means for work and how far this technology should be restrained. The mainstream and radical right support unrestricted enablement; the left is critical but divided on remedy. Social democrats stay adoption-oriented; greens split evenly. The radical left is the clearest force for restriction. The AI conflict thus concerns not compensation after disruption, but whether politics should enable technological change or govern its trajectory.

Problem

• artificial intelligence
• work
• politics
• parliaments
• technological change

Innovation

• parliamentary speeches
• compensation
• enablement and investment
• regulation and restriction
• political logic