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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
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Niall Ferguson is an inverse tankie. He views everything through the lens of American empire but thinks that American empire is a good thing that should be defended. In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, he teams up with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to argue that the US better wake up ...

Kerim Friedman 傅可恩
@kerim.one

… to the importance of AI for its imperial dominance, or else China will supplant it as the global hegemon. A completely facetious argument, but still fascinating to see them switch from "AI will kill us" (though they do mention this briefly) to "Whomever controls AI controls the empire."

foreignaffairs.comEmpires of AIIn 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 Klaassen to make the provocative argume...

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