The geopolitics of AI

Pascal D. Koenig ()

Chapter 9 in Understanding the Politics of Artificial Intelligence, 2025, pp 110-121 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: AI has become an important force in global power dynamics. It gains geopolitical importance as countries’ technological capabilities regarding AI matter for their geographic spheres of influence and their relations to other countries in the world. This chapter examines how AI becomes relevant for states’ abilities to exert power internationally. It describes how capabilities in AI matter for countries’ independence from other actors in their efforts to shape the uptake and impacts of AI in their societies. The chapter also shows how the geopolitics of AI are tied to highly unequal forms of value extraction that are embedded in an economic division of labour and in international power asymmetries that continue long-standing patterns in international relations. To influence their positions within that geopolitical constellation, countries can use various arenas and instruments and attempt to increase their technological and innovation capabilities regarding AI.

Keywords: Digital sovereignty; Power asymmetries; Dependence; Digital extractivism; Value chains; Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035348015
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