Realclearpolitics iconRealclearpoliticsOct 21, 2026

Empires of AI

In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world's foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the researcher Lisa Klaassen to make the provocative argument that AI is an inherently imperial technology-and to reveal what the fate of past empires might say about the future o

Empires of AI

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