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The AI capability trap: should developing countries regulate AI before building it?

Many developing countries adopt national AI strategies, ethics guidelines and regulators before the technical and administrative capabilities those instruments require exist. The episode explains the capability trap in AI governance and compares regulation-first and investment-first sequences across 29 Asian developing countries.

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AI Capability TrapVideo in English, 7 min. Generated with NotebookLM from the published article.Also available: Français (7 min) · العربية (9 min)
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Research area Digital-era governance and regulatory capacity

The article Policy sequencing and the capability trap: AI governance instrument design across Asian developing countries. Ben Brik, A. (2026). Journal of Asian Public Policy, 1–20. doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2026.2697934

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