Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order foreignaffairs.com/china/emp… ✍️ @nfergus with @ericschmidt and Lisa Klaassen via @ForeignAffairs 👉 The authors argue that the United States and China have established rival "empires of AI" by capturing the capital, infrastructure, and raw compute necessary to control global knowledge itself. 👉 However, they warn that the immense, debt-driven financial overextension of this techno-arms race—combined with the threat of autonomous model rebellions—threatens to exhaust both superpowers and destabilise the international order. 💡 By analysing the AI race through a historical macro-lens, the authors strip away the novelty of Silicon Valley and Beijing, reframing frontier models as capital-intensive imperial commodities that replicate the fragile dynamics of the 1970s Cold War. 💡 Their ultimate insight delivers a stark warning to tech leaders: the true vulnerability of modern AGI dominance lies not in a competitor's algorithm, but in the classic imperial trap where the compounding costs of maintaining infrastructure and policing autonomous systems eventually bankrupts the state. cc @Corix_JC @TheAIObserverX @maponi @JagersbergKnut @ahier @ChuckDBrooks @Shi4Tech @CEO_AISOMA @sallyeaves @ThEiLe0 @IngridVasiliu @rvp @dinisguarda @TarakRindani @FrRonconii @mvollmer1 @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @smoothsale @Khulood_Almani @TysonLester @SusanHayes_ @EstelaMandela @JoannMoretti @sulefati7 @FernandaKellner @pchamard @NeiraOsci @darioandriani @ALouiseLavalett @Fabriziobustama @amalmerzouk @arlenenewbigg @mikeflache @RLDI_Lamy @smaksked @Eli_Krumova @PVynckier @drsharwood @chidambara09 @sminaev2015 @Analytics_699 @NathaliaLeHen @MHcommunicate @DanielleLargier