Empires of AI
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“A striking Foreign Affairs piece by Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen & Eric Schmidt: AI is becoming not just a technology stack, but a power stack: chips, energy, compute, capital, models, standards. For Europe, sovereignty cannot stop at “European models.” #A…” evidence ↗
Markets & investment
1 expertCapital, companies and commercial impact.
“A striking Foreign Affairs piece by Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen & Eric Schmidt: AI is becoming not just a technology stack, but a power stack: chips, energy, compute, capital, models, standards. For Europe, sovereignty cannot stop at “European models.” #A…”
Building & implementation
1 expertHow teams are shipping and applying it.
“ICYMI: In their @foreignaffairs.com essay, Niall Ferguson, Eric Schmidt and @oii.ox.ac.uk's Lisa Klaassen argue that AI is an imperial technology, not just a commercial one, and that Washington and Beijing are building rival empires of intelligence. More: w…”
Questions & unknowns
1 expertWhat remains unresolved or contested.
“So how is everyone feeling about learning that we're all imperial subjects after all, and that the only way to prevent the decline of the American empire is to prop up closed AI controlled by a few billionaires? www.foreignaffairs.com/china/empire...”