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Ferguson, Schmidt, and Klaasen argue AI is an imperial technology, using historical empires to predict the future of U.S.-Chinese competition.
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Empires of AI
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In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the researcher Lisa Klaasen to make the provocative argument that AI is an inherently “imperial technology”—and to reveal what the fate of past empires might say about the future of U.S.-Chinese competition in a world shaped by AI.
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