📢 Our line-up for Resisting Big Tech Empires just got even stronger.
We’re excited to welcome Nick Srnicek (@nsrnicek.bsky.social, author of Silicon Empires) and Rosa Curling (@foxglovelegal.bsky.social)
📅 Sat 25 April, London
🎟️ Free tix: www.globaljustice.org.uk/tech-empires
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fresh audio product:
• Tessa West on what kept the Epstein gang together
• Nick Srnicek on AI @nsrnicek.bsky.social
• Wanda Bertram on the costs of mass incarceration @prisonpolicy.org
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
This is a really insightful and informative episode with @nsrnicek.bsky.social particularly for how it pushes back against the leftist urge to dismiss AI as politically old hat and philosophically irrelevant thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
"Charting AI’s development within its proper economic and geopolitical context...Srnicek’s guide can help us maintain a long-term, realistic perspective of the technology’s likely trajectory.”
@jacobinmag.bsky.social review @nsrnicek.bsky.social's 'Silicon Empires'
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My review of @nsrnicek.bsky.social's new book on AI, 'Silicon Empires', in Jacobin 👇
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Really glad you enjoyed it!
Very much looking forward to this - Silicon Empires by @nsrnicek.bsky.social is the best book I've read on the political economy of AI
SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
studying the enemy
Somehow I missed that Kasy book was out - it sounds great
The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI
In an excerpt from his new book "Silicon Empires," @nsrnicek.bsky.social looks at how Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI — once united in opposition to military use of their AI tools — came around to working with the Pentagon. www.wired.com/story/book-e...
EVENT
| @nsrnicek.bsky.social on Silicon Empires |
| Fri 13th Feb, 18:30 |
| Newspeak House, London |
Yesterday, we held the first session of the “AI critique” seminar, welcoming two scholars whose work has profoundly shaped critical debates on the political economy of AI: @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @nsrnicek.bsky.social. Here is a short overview of the session: www.felixtreguer.fr/en/2026/01/1...
Thank you - I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks Dan!
Silicon Empires is out today in the US! For anyone interested, I'm resharing this thread outlining some of the key arguments of the book.
Just picked up @nsrnicek.bsky.social’s new book. Congrats Nick, it looks great and I’m
excited to dig in!
Thanks Niels, hope you enjoy it!
Who owns the future of artificial intelligence? Our video of the week argues that the true struggle is not just over technological prowess, but over the capture and organization of value across a multi-layered AI “stack.”
Feat. @nsrnicek.bsky.social
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“Strategic incoherency is the imperial expression of domestic contestations.” - @nsrnicek.bsky.social
New post from me, trying to understand the various deals being made to build out AI infrastructure. Plus some news and research I thought was interesting recently.
siliconempires.substack.com/p/financing-...
New post from me, trying to understand the various deals being made to build out AI infrastructure. Plus some news and research I thought was interesting recently.
siliconempires.substack.com/p/financing-...
Joint book launch at King’s 🌟
Featuring:
• @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures
• @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires
• @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct
In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social &
@joannazylinska.bsky.social
📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
I've started up a newsletter to try and collect together my incipient thoughts and notes on the intersection of AI, geopolitics, and capitalism. I'm unlikely to post often, but feel free to subscribe and get updates here: siliconempires.substack.com
The straightforward benefits being profits flow to US companies and power flows to America via the capacity for weaponised interdependence
I'm not sure the Marshall Plan is the best analogy (and not sure what a good parallel would be offhand), but the intention is clear - to expand the US AI stack so that others are dependent ("addicted" in the words of Howard Lutnick) on the technology
Tbf, this specific policy isn't in the book since it came out after I was done writing. But the broad outlines of US strategy were I think clear from before - with various tensions playing out during Biden's administration
All in all, the idea of "exporting the AI stack" is becoming the dominant frame for US AI expansion, so it's worth following what the government decides after its current request for information period
3️⃣ A reemphasis on what the government is offering: "Selected [US] companies would all be offered to foreign governments as part of the program, and all would be equally eligible for development finance loans, grants, and other perks."
