Your Corporatarchs image reminds me of a book Asimov's Foundation Trilogy: The Merchant Princes. This book represents a thematic non-violent power shift from conquest by sword present during the time of the Roman Republic under Nero. Once Rome had cemented it's control in modern day Britain via conquest by Elephant and the crossing the English channel, conquest by engineering and required infrastructure maintenance followed - aqueduct and road construction projects. Rome essentially systematically bankrupted England and Wales by requiring they build these aqueducts using Roman engineering while taking out huge loans. After England couldn't pay up, the Roman Senate determined a bankrupted territory and subject of Rome had zero stance to argue a case for their own sovreignty, thus it was economically annexed. I'm wondering how the renneiassance of AI will redistribute power and control over contested territories - access to semiconductors, precious metals, viable trade routes for the aforementioned? How will potential media control over the informational sphere encapsulating geopolitics will shift from something resonable to believe or not due to AI? It appears we're seeing a piece of the misinformation market everyday due to AI.
Interesting! The economic annexation you mentioned reminds me of interviewing Daniel Natal last year. I don't recall much in it about AI, semiconductors, etc., but you might enjoy how he explores the general idea of economic annexation and how he describes imperialist powers funding it to bankers' benefit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hQt6-cQqAs
Your Corporatarchs image reminds me of a book Asimov's Foundation Trilogy: The Merchant Princes. This book represents a thematic non-violent power shift from conquest by sword present during the time of the Roman Republic under Nero. Once Rome had cemented it's control in modern day Britain via conquest by Elephant and the crossing the English channel, conquest by engineering and required infrastructure maintenance followed - aqueduct and road construction projects. Rome essentially systematically bankrupted England and Wales by requiring they build these aqueducts using Roman engineering while taking out huge loans. After England couldn't pay up, the Roman Senate determined a bankrupted territory and subject of Rome had zero stance to argue a case for their own sovreignty, thus it was economically annexed. I'm wondering how the renneiassance of AI will redistribute power and control over contested territories - access to semiconductors, precious metals, viable trade routes for the aforementioned? How will potential media control over the informational sphere encapsulating geopolitics will shift from something resonable to believe or not due to AI? It appears we're seeing a piece of the misinformation market everyday due to AI.
Interesting! The economic annexation you mentioned reminds me of interviewing Daniel Natal last year. I don't recall much in it about AI, semiconductors, etc., but you might enjoy how he explores the general idea of economic annexation and how he describes imperialist powers funding it to bankers' benefit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hQt6-cQqAs