The long game of defense AI
technological hierarchies, strategic peripheries, and the political economy of international security
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https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.155262Keywords:
defense artificial intelligence; Global South; technological hierarchies.Abstract
This review examines The Very Long Game as a comparative contribution to understanding defense AI as a sociotechnical, geoeconomic, and institutional phenomenon. It argues that the book moves the debate from futuristic speculation to an analysis of technological hierarchies affecting the Global South.
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