You can have abstract trust in democracy over autocracy, but this is not an abstract question - these are the actual choices. Does it really matter if the person who will use AI to fuck us has a "democratic mandate" to do so? We're fucked either way.

You don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to.

The majority of the world will refuse to be subject to American AI laws under the control of the US gov't, whether it pretends to be democratic or not. Or should.

Exactly. No matter how bad Trump is, millions of American people at least voted / vouched for him. Nobody voted for Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or any other CEO to have as much power as they have. Maybe a handful of shareholders. Totally unelected and unapproved by the public, but run companies that affect most of the public's lives.