IPPR Book Review - The Quest for Supremacy and Sagacity in AI

High Tech Geopolitics
Written By Shrikrishna Upadhyaya

This is a book review of "Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Paul Scharre published in the Indian Public Policy Review (Vol. 4 No. 5 (Sep-Oct) (2023)).

Artificial Intelligence has now become critical to the geopolitical contest for technological supremacy. Paul Scharre's latest book, "Four Battlegrounds," uncovers key aspects of this technology, and the four battlegrounds this contest is being fought on – data, talent, compute, and institutions. This book review assesses a wide range of issues the book covers through a unique story-telling writing style, and highlights implications for how we understand AI and its uses. The book isn't entirely jargon-free, but this review argues that Scharre does a great job at bringing down the walls of incomprehensibility with regards to this key technology.

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Anushka Saxena
Anushka Saxena

Anushka Saxena is a Research Analyst with Takshashila’s Indo-Pacific Studies Programme. Her long-term project at Takshashila entails working on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and its reforms. She is also co-curating the weekly Newsletter, ‘Eye on China’. She tweets @SaxenaAnushka_.

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