The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon
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- Politics & Int Relations (Department)
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- Manor Road Building - Seminar Room C, Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom
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- Oxford
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About this talk
Join the Emerging Threats Group in-person or online (RSVP) for a lecture by Max Bessler, author of “The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon”. The article, written for future governance and society magazine Palladium, is online and will be featured in its forthcoming print issue. Doors open 5pm, the lecture begins promptly at 5:30 and ends at 6:30 for time for questions and open conversation afterwards.When technology creates new industries, how those industries mature influences geopolitical power. The changing economics of AI models threaten US national security. The market for AI models is “dividing” between premium US models and cheap, open-weight alternatives, mostly Chinese. As a result, this division could deny the US one of its best chances for economic coercion in the future.Speaker Bio: Max Bessler researches how technology companies navigate geopolitics. He is an MPhil candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford, a Research Engineering Lead at the Oxford Computational Political Science Group, and a Visiting Fellow at the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. His computational work uses AI/ML to measure how technology is invented and diffused around the world. He also runs seminars for Oxford’s Emerging Threats Group, which examines the national security implications of critical and emerging technologies. Previously, he was a strategy consultant, a chief of staff for a defence tech startup, and an economic analyst in the CIA’s East Asia and Pacific Mission Center. He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with a BA in Government modified with Economics.
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