The intensifying rivalry between the US and China is unfolding on new terrain. In the late 2010s, the rivalry centered on the US’s attempts to limit China’s access to advanced chips as well as the supply chains required to make them. Now the focus of this struggle is shifting to the related area of the development of AI models to achieve international technological and industrial leadership.
Joseph Baines, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London, will join the TransforM Seminar Series to talk about the geoeconomics of AI and what it means for Europe.
This talk follows the global production networks that link advanced chips, cloud infrastructure, AI models, and their deployment across industrial sectors. Where is value created and ultimately captured in AI-centered production networks? Which companies are positioned to benefit from geoeconomic conflict over these networks? And who bears the social and ecological costs?
In illuminating the emergent winners and losers of the AI race, this talk also offers insights into what space remains for Europe to shape AI development in ways that serve public needs.
About the event
This is an in-person event. No registration is needed.
TransforM’s Seminar Series is a space for cross-disciplinary conversation on transformative technologies and their socio-economic impact. It brings leading academics and international experts for open, research-driven discussions on the technologies reshaping our economies, institutions and everyday lives.
