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The Lede

AI Is Transforming Geopolitics — with Bruno Maçães and Faisal Al Yafai

Feb 21, 2025
41:14

The global geopolitical landscape is changing, but not in the way you might think. In place of traditional armies facing off on the battlefield, or nuclear-backed superpowers, there's a new force: AI. On this week’s episode of The Lede, politician and New Statesman columnist Bruno Maçães, author of “World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics,” tells New Lines’ Faisal Al Yafai how the battle lines are being drawn in a virtual world — and how the builders of the strongest AI language models will be the true power brokers of the future.

Produced by Finbar Anderson

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