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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
TL;DRSchmidt says AI power mirrors colonialism: US/China dominate, other nations dependent.
Why it matters: Raises critical questions about AI sovereignty, data extraction, and economic inequality in the emerging AI era.
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…
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