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In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every other country as a dependency. The race won't be decided by breakthroughs but by who can bankroll it. US corporations alone plan to spend more than $600 billion in 2026. Yet mounting debt, protests against data centers, and a potential chip crisis over Taiwan could stall both superpowers. The ar…
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Ferguson, Klaassen and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt describe the USA and China in Foreign Affairs as AI empires on which other countries are increasingly dependent. The race is not a technological breakthrough, but capital. US corporations alone want to invest over 600 billion dollars in 2026. High debt, protests against data centers and a possible chip crisis around Taiwan could slow down both powers. The article USA and China build AI empires on…

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Throughout history, empires have varied so much in size and duration that no single model of development can explain all of their fates. However, it is possible to imagine several plausible scenarios for the US and China as the leading powers in the development of artificial intelligence. The article The Rise (and Fall?) of the AI Empire appeared first on New Standard.

Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen and Eric Schmidt In the span of a few years, China and the United States have forged what historians of the future could recognize as a new type of empire. Its dominance extends not only over territory, trade routes and airspace, but also over knowledge itself. By controlling the [...] The Entry Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New World Order was first published in CLAE.

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