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Volume 8: AI Sovereignty and Dependency in the Global South
Seven volumes have traced how AI reshapes industries, employment, supply chains, resources, military power, and governance across the Americas. Each volume has revealed a recurring pattern: AI development concentrates in ways that create dependencies, and those dependencies translate into power relationships that determine which nations control their technological destinies and which become permanently subordinate. For Latin America and the Caribbean, this pattern isn't acade
4 days ago11 min read
Volume 7: Governance and Standards
The preceding six volumes have examined how AI reshapes industries, displaces workers, demands unprecedented resources, and transforms military power. But technology doesn't develop in a vacuum. Every capability discussed in this series exists within governance frameworks that determine what's permissible, what's required, and what triggers sanctions. Governance frameworks aren't mere bureaucratic constraints. They're instruments of power as consequential as supply chains or
Feb 189 min read
Volume 6: AI Weaponry
War has always been humanity's cruelest laboratory for innovation. Gunpowder rewrote the rules of siege warfare. Railroads made mass mobilization possible. Aircraft turned battlefields three-dimensional. Nuclear weapons made total war potentially suicidal. Each wave of military technology has redefined what armies can do, how they organize, and which nations can project power. Artificial intelligence represents the latest turn in this cycle, but with characteristics that make
Feb 108 min read
The Geopolitics of AI in the Americas Series Volume 5: Natural Resources and Energy Demand
Last week we examined the supply chains and infrastructure that make AI possible. But infrastructure doesn't materialize from nothing. It requires minerals pulled from the earth, energy generated at unprecedented scale, and water drawn from increasingly stressed watersheds. The physical demands of artificial intelligence are staggering, and they're about to get dramatically worse. Every AI chip contains rare earth elements. Every data center consumes electricity equivalent to
Feb 310 min read
Volume 4: Supply Chain & Infrastructure, The Geopolitics of AI in the Americas Series
Code may have mass, but that mass requires physical foundations. Every AI model trained, every query processed, every autonomous system deployed depends on hardware manufactured in specific places, assembled by specific hands, powered by specific energy sources, and connected through specific networks. The digital revolution we've spent three decades treating as borderless and weightless turns out to be deeply rooted in geography, constrained by physics, and vulnerable to the
Jan 2810 min read
Volume 3: The Employment Outlook
For decades, when people worried about automation, they imagined robots on factory floors displacing assembly line workers. The advice was consistent: get educated, learn technical skills, move into knowledge work. "Learn to code" became a rallying cry, a promised path to automation-proof employment. Then large language models arrived and rewrote the script. Today, AI excels at writing code, analyzing data, drafting legal documents, and generating reports. Meanwhile, it still
Jan 207 min read
Volume 2: AI as a Strategic Industry
The internet always seemed weightless, a realm of pure information floating above the physical world of nations, borders, and power. For decades, we treated digital infrastructure as if it existed nowhere and everywhere at once. But as artificial intelligence scales from research curiosity to industrial foundation, that illusion is shattering. AI has mass. It requires land, energy, minerals, and factories. And like every strategic industry before it, from oil to semiconductor
Jan 1310 min read
Introduction: AI and the Americas
Artificial intelligence has become humanity's most urgent conversation. Whether you're in a barbershop in São Paulo or a boardroom in Manhattan, someone is talking about it. But this isn't just another technology trend destined to fade from the headlines like the metaverse or NFTs. AI represents something fundamentally different: a transformation as profound as electrification or the internet, compressed into a timeframe that gives nations and regions mere years, not decades,
Jan 67 min read
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