AI‑Induced Short‑Termism

AI’s rhetoric and investment dynamics are shifting public and elite attention toward ever‑shorter timelines, making multi‑year institutional projects (regulation, standards, industrial policy) politically and cognitively harder to pursue. The effect combines viral apocalyptic narratives, competition‑driven release races, and attention economies to produce a durable bias for sprint over patient statecraft. — If real, this bias undermines democratic capacity to build infrastructure, plan energy and industrial transitions, and design robust AI governance — turning a technological change into a political‑institutional risk.