It's about balances of power. There's unfortunately a strong tendency for corporate power to overwhelm all other institutions, given how centrally organized, self-optimizing, evolving it is. Government ideally should offer a balancing power, an equally intelligent, evolving structure safeguarding individuals (and humanity vs economics). The problem is corporations have found ways to control governments and will use their power to terminate impacts on their productivity, which will inevitably include human rights, quality of life, human values.
The only solution I can see is through legislation, strictly forbidding and creating institutions to prevent corporate interferance in government.
Some measures:
1) Outlawing lobbying more broadly, improving campaign financing, etc.
2) Reforming the government to promote greater adaptability and efficiency, mimicking how companies improve themselves through competition.
There are quite a few examples of countries with good control over corporations (Japan I think is quite strict at least in terms of election financing and advertising), and good alignment of government and human values. But many others, notably by the US, turn more and more the opposite way towards corporate/economic absolutism.
It's been said before, but people put a little too much fear into AI takeover when gigantic, scalable, self-improving systems with trivial values (economic output) are already almost taking over the world.
Well, they wouldn't have enough money to market themselves. Or if they were independently wealthy and leveraged people's outrages to get elected, well that worked last presidential election.
Seriously though, internet + mass-media-driven outrage on a topic like this is probably much smaller than people think whereas less squeaky outrages (e.g. the ACA) have huge angry-yet-silent bases.
